Write Your Name

activities elementary highschool middleschool movement warmups

Check out this lesson from Teaching Movement to Performers of All Abilities, where students will practice creativity and develop their own artistic ideas.

Download the lesson plan to follow along.

Here’s how it works:

Objective: Students will practice creativity and develop their own choreography ideas.

Write your name using:

One finger
Whole hand
Entire arm
Another part of the body
Prop

Write your name:

Horizontally
Vertically
Diagonally
Print
Cursive
Small
Large

Create a movement inspired by your name. Pull inspiration from the movements you made during Steps 1 and 2.
Add music and perform the movement.

Variations:

Level Down

Write the student’s name on a piece of paper that they can reference in front of them.
Focus on one letter from a student’s name
Offer the Body Choice Board

Level Up

Perform the full name to music
Create 3-5 movements inspired by a name to create a sequence
Encourage collaboration by combining movements from multiple people’s names