Archive for November 21st, 2009

good old scarves

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

One inexpensive and easily obtainable, or made prop that we use is the good old scarf.

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We find it has many uses during dancing and play including as a music prop, such as in Boa Constrictor (see post on parachute fun on October 6th), or Calypso by Susie Davies and Phil Splitter from their Razzamajazz CD.

When one of our boys fell awkwardly and broke his arm recently we popped a sling on him (we were very thankful for our regular first aid training), then he was whisked off to hospital by his mum.

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When he left about half of the group of children went out in sympathy and asked to have a sling on too. As we didn’t have enough proper slings for them all, out came the scarves!

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The bright colours looked fabulous and it certainly helped everyone cope with the trauma.

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The children thought it was fun for a while.

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But once reality kicked in and they realized how hard it is to play using one arm…

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…they soon ditched their slings!

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Coincidentally, another one of our children had broken his arm, falling off his bike at home just two days earlier. Both boys have now returned to kinder and are coping really well … fortunately they are able to play without using slings!