Hula Hooping with Hannah
You’ll feel like a star circus performer once you master these easy hula hooping tricks!
In this video, Hannah will lead you through a calming warm-up, and then demonstrate three hula hooping techniques: hooping around your waist, hooping around your arm using the “stop sign” technique, and then hooping around your hands using the “prayer hands” technique.
After you’ve got the hang of it, why not put on a show for your family?
More hooping tips and tricks coming soon!
Rai’s Musical Moments Episode 2
Who’s ready for some more percussive action?!
In this video, Rai takes the simple 1,2,3,4 beat we learned in episode 1 and uses it to play with some common household objects.
Learn to play in an ensemble by playing a washing basket, laundry bucket, and mixing bowl with your family.
A great one for letting loose some energy and jazzing up your day!
Alice’s Animal Closeups
In this episode of Animal Closeups, we meet Alice’s new puppy Baloo! Baloo will show us some of the tricks he’s learning while Alice tells us a bit about a day in the life of a dog.
Do you have pets? Do your pets know any tricks? We’d love to hear all about them! Let us know in the comments, or send us an email with a picture, video, or description of your favourite animal at home.
Stef’s Bug Safari
There is more than meets the eye in your own backyard.
Stef investigates the many kinds of insect life thriving under leaves and topsoil in her garden. Join her – or take a peek into your own garden and tell us what you find there!
Hannah’s Magic Potions
Make your own magic potion that causes your brother’s hair to fall out…. or gives the holder the ability to talk to animals… or summons a storm!
These pretty, glittery potions also make a great sensory tool for helping kids focus as they watch the glitter swirl around the coloured liquid.
What you will need:
- Clean glass jars with lids (soaking an empty sauce jar in water + bicarb soda usually helps to remove any labels)
- Paper, textas or pencils, tape, and ribbon – to create our own labels
- Food dye (or natural alternative such as beetroot juice)
- Magic potion ingredients like glitter, small beads, paper confetti, petals, leaves….
- A drop or two of detergent
Rai’s Musical Moments Episode 1
Feeling restless? Ready to groove?
In this introduction to percussion, Rai shows us how we can use our own bodies to make beats to bop to.
All you need is – yourself!