Paper skates!

Around the holidays (and Olympic season this past year!), at the end of class I occasionally give my younger grades the opportunity to ice skate in music class!  I take paper from the recycling bin, cut it in half, and each half of the paper is a skate that the student gets to pretend to skate on.

I put on a song like "Skating" by Vince Guaraldi, and have a couple helpers help me pass out 2 skates per person. Students have to listen to the music as they move to keep their skates!