Submitted by Kristin Lukow, Nebraska
Idea posted December 4, 2002
I don't have the music for Blitzen's Boogie (from Music K-8, Vol. 12, No. 2, also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit) in front of me, but I think I remember most of it! I did this last year with 1st and 2nd graders! (Jazz hands are hands that have fingers fully extended like the number 5.)
Beginning:Stand with one hand on hip and the other snapping as you throw your hip to the side on counts 1 and 3.
You know Dasher and Dancer...
Throw both jazz hands down to the left side, one crossing the body and freeze.
Prancer and Vixen
Throw both jazz hands down to the right side as above, and freeze.
Comet and Cupid
Throw both hands down to the outside of body, palms up and head thrown back...
But do you do you know Blitzen?
Bring jazz hands down moving side to side until you say Blitzen and then step/touch from side to side with a snap on 2 and 4.
Do you know Blitzen?
Continue the above move...
He's a Boogie woogie reindeer
Do the twist 3 times with jazz hands laying flat in front of your body. Throw and hold your hands on beat 3.
and he boogies all day.
Hands on hips and on the word day begin a 4 corner pivot step. Step with your right foot front and pivot to the left and do this again on beats 2, 3, and 4 until you are back facing front... having made a box.
The following... have kids echo words and movements:
He's some kind of cool...
Thumbs over the shoulder like the Fonz R, L, R and freeze.
When the Season is yule...
Jazz hands around in a circle in front of body 1, 2, 3 and freeze.
He boogies away...
Do the twist like above 1, 2, 3 and freeze.
While he pulls on his sleigh...
Grab the sleigh reins and move from left to right 1, 2, 3 and freeze.
He's some kind of fine...
Fling jazz hands over head (like you're flinging something off them) to the beat 1, 2, 3 and freeze.
And his moves are divine...
Move your arms in front of your body with fists like you're running only R, L, R and freeze.
He boogies a lot...
Do the twist like above and freeze.
With the rhythm he's got...
Bounce and snap in place and freeze.
There is a dramatic point here...
Throw hands up over head in a dramatic fashion.
Repeat as above.
I hope this makes sense to the ones who want it, and I hope I included all the words... Like I said, I don't have the music with me at home!
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