I am not going to lie, I love how I was able to make it look as though I had a couple of real-life baby sea turtles on the floor near me in this video tutorial! And I hope your kids enjoy being a sea turtle with me as well as crawling like a crab and rolling our bodies in …
DIY Double Metal Ballet Barre – Video Tutorial, PDF & Instructions
When I went to the hardware store to buy the galvanized metal pipes I would need to build this double barre for home ballet practice I explained my project to the guy who looked after the materials in that aisle. His verdict was that it wouldn’t work because I would probably get into trouble with the direction of the threads …
How to Make a Ballet Barre: Video & Instructions for Galvanised Steel Pipe
Making a single ballet barre from Galvanised Steel was pretty easy – once I realized that it had to be put together in a certain way. This is because of the direction everything needed to be screwed in. What wasn’t 100% easy was actually obtaining all the parts as many of the lengths I wanted and some fittings were sold …
How to Make a DIY Home PVC Ballet Barre – Video & Step by Step Tutorial
2020 has been a wild ride hasn’t it! I never would have dreamed my girls would have been doing their ballet lessons online and at home but this is what pushed me to find out how to make a DIY home ballet barre. I had never made one before, and even though I consider myself a DIY kind of girl, …
Jungle Animal Creative Dance Lesson for Home and School Classrooms
Snap like a crocodile, swing like an orangutan and prowl like a lion as we move like wild animals in this jungle-themed creative dance lesson specially made for kids and toddlers. The 15-minute lesson explores moving our bodies in fun and creative ways to carefully selected music specially chosen to help ignite the imagination and provide a beat and rhythm …
Unicorns, Mermaids and a Phoenix: Creative Movement Dance Lesson for Kids
Join Celine and I on an adventure into a mythical world where we prance as unicorns, swim like a mermaid and fly like a phoenix. Follow us with the warm-up and then after we immerse ourselves into our imaginations, play a quick game where we practice all the creative dance skills we have just learned and then finish with a …
Great Dance and Ballet Books for boys!
Finding a book about dance is easy! But finding a book about dance or ballet or any other style where the main characters or information is either gender-balanced or about boys, is not so easy! Great dance and ballet books for boys include images or photos that boys are easily able to identify with. They are either gender-balanced or include …
The Ultimate List of Dance and Ballet Picture Books for Children by Age
Every night my children and I have a ritual. After bath and shower time we sit on the couch and read several picture books. We have collated quite a collection of children’s literature, but some of our favourite books to read are those about ballet, dance and movement. The best dance and ballet picture books have storylines, rhymes, and words …
Dance & Ballet Books for Kids & Young Readers that Showcase Diversity!
When I grew up reading children’s literature it was quite rare to see many books where the kids had different skin colors, or where the main character had a disability. Having been a teacher in multicultural schools and having mixed-race children myself, I have become painfully aware of the discrepancies as I wasn’t always able to provide my students and …
Reviews with links to Kids Dance & Ballet Books that come in a Series
I love reading books and most times when I have finished, I am wanting more. I want to know what else happens to the characters in the books and what other adventures they go on. This list of books fulfills that exact wish! It is a list of fiction books, picture books and novels about dance that the author has …