• Put out instruments for the children to try. Ask them which ones make the most suitable sounds to accompany a skeleton dance.


• Consider performing your skeleton dances to another class or audience. Talk to the children about whether this makes a difference to their performance.


• Will they need more practice? • Will they need an introduction? • Will they need to stand in particular ways to begin with? • What space will they need? • Who will operate the music? – and so on.


Learn the Traditional Song ‘Dem Dry Bones’ – or any other song or rhyme that connects to this theme.


• Search online for the words. You will also find many video performances and animations to share with the children.


• Learn the songs with the children and enjoy rehearsing them. • Revisit what is important about performance, including speaking clearly, looking up and out and smiling.


Make Skeletons in Different Ways


• Make skeleton pictures on black paper using art straws. • Use icing sugar to put bones onto gingerbread men.


• Go on a bone hunt. Try to find resources outdoors that could be used as bones, such as twigs, and use them to make skeletons.


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