Self-control2–4 yrsHome or out

Freeze dance

Music on, music off, chaos in between.

Prep

0 min

Mess

None

How to play

Dance while it plays. When you cut the music, everybody freezes. Hold the pause a little longer each round to make it harder.

  1. two children dancing to music
    1

    Music on — everybody dances.

  2. a child frozen still beside a pause sign
    2

    Cut the music — freeze!

  3. two children holding a frozen pose
    3

    Hold the freeze a little longer each round.

What you need

Music, and space to be silly.

What it secretly builds

Self-control

Stopping on cue is impulse control — one of the hardest things a toddler can practise, and far easier to learn while laughing than during a tantrum.

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