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Musical Statues
Children dance then freeze like a statue when the music stops.
⏱ 10-15 min⚡ High energy👥 Whole class
📚 Vocabulary
• action words
• freeze
• dance
• move
• stop
• statue
• still
🛠 Materials
• Music player
• Open space in the classroom
📋 How to Play
- Clear space in the classroom so children can move freely.
- Tell children: "When the music plays, dance! When it stops, freeze like a statue!"
- Play music and let children dance around freely.
- Stop the music suddenly — children must freeze completely still.
- Walk around and look at the statues. Anyone still moving sits out for one round.
- Before restarting the music, ask one child: "What are you?" — they say "A statue!"
- Play again. Last child standing wins.
- For younger children, skip elimination and just enjoy freezing together.
💡 Teacher Tips
✓When the music stops, call out a pose — "Freeze like a LION!" or "Freeze like a TREE!"
✓This is a great warm-up game at the start of any lesson.
✓Use songs from the lesson topic — animal songs, colour songs, number songs.
✓Take photos of the funny statue poses to show parents!
🔄 Variations
→Call a vocabulary word when the music stops — children freeze AND touch that thing.
→Children freeze in the shape of a letter from the alphabet.
→Use slow and fast music — children must move slowly or quickly to match.
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