Difficulty Medium
Duration 15 minutes
Type of activity Warm-up
Season Any
Occasion Any
Suitability Physically fit
Locations Indoor
Tools
CD player
chiffon clothes
cd with traditional music
space for dancing
Goal
The essence of this activity is to bring traditional (folk) music to children and to offer the elders a different time filling from normal resting regime.
Intergenerational benefits
Understanding and relationship building
Understanding and relationship building
The activity promotes the understanding and appreciation of the attitudes, opinions, and experiences which different generations bring to the relationships, understanding and avoiding generational stereotypes and fostering tolerance of different lifestyles and an appreciation for cultural heritages, traditions and histories.
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
The activity promotes learning and skill sharing among younger and older generations. It involves the sharing of positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other, especially the experience with novelties of modern times and valuable life lessons as well as cultural and familiar traditions.
Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing
The activity promotes physical and mental well-being. It has a positive impact on the quality of life (feeling of self-worth and a reduction in loneliness and isolation, promotion of physical and cognitive activity).
Personal impact
Personal impact
Developing soft skills (like empathy, confidence, communication abilities, learning skills) and developing their own strengths and talents.
Cognitive skills
Cognitive skills
Supporting mental / brain-based skills we need to do anything from the simplest to the most complex tasks:perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language, visual and spatial processing, executive functions.
Community involvement
Community involvement
The activity increases confidence and involvement within the community. It offers a starting point that could have a positive impact within the community.
Step by Step
- Physically fit seniors and children from 4 years meet in a spacious room.
- Greetings and introduction is following.
- Chiffon cloths are distributed within the children.
- In order to form pairs, each kid choose a senior.
- Let's the music play.
- Pairs are dancing, using the chiffon cloths.
- Group dance in a circle - senior, chiffon clothe, kid, chiffon cloth etc.
- Other variation - seniors show movements and kids imitate them (f.e. step in the circle)
- Final music/dance.
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