This is probably the most exciting counting backwards song! Numbers Game This is a fun number recognition song. The children hold the parachute and walk around in a circle, singing to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle … Walk around the chute all day Which number will I say?
When you get to the end of the song you freeze and say the number that you are nearest. Farmers In His Den This is a classic circle game, and great for playing with a parachute. Then choose another child to join the farmer and hold hands and everyone sings: The farmer wants a wife The farmer wants a wife E-i-addio The farmer wants a wife One by one other children join them as you sing: The wife wants a child… The child wants a nurse… The nurse wants a cow… The cow wants a dog… The dog wants a cat… The cat wants a mouse… The mouse wants some cheese.
How to play it — Very simply, all walk or skip round the circle singing: Here we go round the mulberry bush The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush Here we go round the mulberry bush On a cold and frosty morning. Then do different actions as you sing… This is the way we shake the sheets Shake the sheets…etc Shake the parachute This is the way we saw the wood … Go back and forth This is the way we hammer nails … Go up and down 5.
If you have five toy monkeys then amazing! Roly-Poly This is more of a chant than a song, but you could definitely think up a tune if you like! How to play it — Everyone holds the parachute and chants: Roly poly, roly poly Up up up Lift the parachute up Roly poly, roly poly Down down down Parachute down Repeat a couple of times. Other verses you can do include: Roly poly, roly poly In in in Go in Roly poly, roly poly Out out out Go back out Roly poly, roly poly Fast fast fast Shake it fast Roly poly, roly poly Slow slow slow Shake it slow This is a great game for early phonics, and linking words to actions.
Grand Old Duke Of York This is an action song that is just crying out to be turned into a parachute game. How to play — You sing the song and carry out the actions: Oh, the grand old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up to the top of the hill Lift the parachute up And he marched them down again Bring it low down And when they were up they where up Up And when they were down, they were down Down And when they were only half-way up Half-way up They were neither up nor down Up then down!
Incy Wincy Spider This one is similar to the Grand Old Duke of York in that the lyrics are really movement based and there is lots of going up and down in the song. How to play — Same again you sing the song and bring it life with movement of the parachute: Incy wincy spider climbed up the water spout Go up Down came the rain and washed the spider out Go down Out came the sun and dried up all the rain Walk round in a circle Now Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again!
Go back up and finish high The Waves on the Sea This is an adaptation of a classic song — The Wheels on the Bus Waves and parachutes go brilliantly together, and children really enjoy creating waves. How to play — Make waves in different ways as you sing: The Waves on the Sea go up and down Up and down, up and down The waves on the sea go up and down All day long The waves on the sea go splish, splash, splosh Splish, splash, splosh Splish, splash, splosh The waves on the sea go splish, splash, splosh All day long The waves on the sea are very small… The waves on the sea are very big… The storm on the sea goes crash, crash, crash… What Shape Is It Today?
What shape is it today? You can adapt it for a class puppet, or a character toy from a story. For this you need to split the children into two teams. You also need some instruments for this: for example, drums, tambourines, triangles, and Maraccas.
Pick some children to play the instruments. Then you assign each instrument to be a different animal. Get the children to play the instruments and decide what they sound like. There is no real right or wrong, but some sensible ideas might be things like a butterfly for the triangle, and a snake for the tambourine.
When you have got at least four animals sorted, and the children with those instruments know which they are, it is time to make up a story. The children holding the parachute are going to help you with sound effects and adding movement to the story. The children with the instruments are going to add sound effects. Start the story however you want. The triangles will all play, and the children holding the parachute will do gentle movements, just like butterflies.
All the drums will now play, and the parachute will be waving up and down like stamping elephants. Just keep going like that. If the children can help you make up the story, then that is even better. If not, just make it up yourself. All you need for this activity is a parachute and either one piece of music, or else extracts of pieces of music.
The idea is that you put a piece of music on, and the children try to move the parachute in a way that suits the sound. For example, if the music is quick, then they move the parachute with rapid jerks.
If it is slow and graceful, then deep controlled beats of the parachute are what is required. Some pieces of more classical music will often have variations of pitch and speed as you go through. It gets children listening for dynamics, pitch, and tempo. By circle songs, I mean the kind that work as in a group circle. Instead of holding hands, you just use the parachute instead. These types of songs work brilliantly with parachutes. They get children experiencing music, and cooperating and getting active all at the same time.
This is really simple, and can be done with any song that the children know well. The idea is easy — you sing the song, and sway the parachute up and down to the beat of the music. There was some research I read recently that claimed that if young children are able to keep the beat of the music in an activity like this, then they are much more likely to generally do well at school!
It seemed quite a broad statement, but perhaps there is something in the importance of this skill. There is no one size or one type fits all when it comes to parachutes. There are many different types of parachutes in the world of skydiving and each is built specifically to suit different experience levels, disciplines, and to provide the desired performance.
The type of parachute used by a wingsuit flyer would often be very different than the parachute used by someone who flies in a head down freeflyer body position.
Generally, skydivers begin with big more docile parachutes and graduate to smaller more speedy and high-performance types of parachutes. Someone making their first jump as a tandem skydive will be using a tandem parachute designed to comfortably carry the weight of two people and allow for easy, soft landings.
In the world of skydiving, the square foot tandem parachute is the equivalent of an wheeler truck. All skydivers jump with an additional type of parachute designed, especially, to come in handy in emergency situations. These are called reserve parachutes. Reserve parachutes are designed for reliability over performance. As you can see, the types of parachutes we use for modern sport skydiving operations are a far cry from the round docile parachutes of the old days. Now, because of their maneuverability, they are much more like fixed wings, and so, generally, we call them canopies!
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