Let's play spoons!

Innovator: Effie Bachtsevana - https://www.instagram.com/lets_play_boomwhackers 

Organisation: Thessaloniki

Description of the practice:

“Let’s play spoons” method For all Ages, Cultures and Abilities

Colored musical spoons can be a delightful group activity, creating opportunities for participants to interact and collaborate together. This collaborative experience promotes teamwork, listening skills, and the ability to synchronize with others. From enhancing fine motor skills and rhythm to fostering creativity, collaboration, and self-confidence, the musical spoons open a rhythmic gateway for everyone.

   “Let’s play spoons” games and activities can boost physical, emotional and motor development.
This method inspires endless ways to be innovative and to learn new things. Playing with the musical spoons can be an activity that can reduce anxiety and depression.
Everyone can be a successful participant regardless of their music background.

To encourage participants to sing, move, dance, play, create, improvise, compose and perform.
To help participants feel good about themselves, develop their self-expression and enhance health and well-being through the joy of music, rhythm and movement. It provides a creative outlet for participants to explore and express.
Everyone can experiment with rhythm, melody, and sound.
The rhythmic patterns and coordination required in playing the colored musical spoons activate various areas of the brain, promoting neural connections and enhancing cognitive abilities.
Through movement activities, participants work on skills such as turn-taking, cooperation, vocabulary development, social skills, or gross motor skills such as strength, balance, hand-eye coordination, agility, memory, speed, attention, problem-solving skills etc.

Spoons help bring people together from different cultures and languages.

All activities in this method are presented as games, so in most cases we work in groups, not alone.
The activities of the method encourage everyone to communicate, to be creative and to express themselves. 
Most physical activities in the method involve rhythm and have a beat such as crawling, walking, jumping, running, hopping, skipping and so on.

Teaching simple dance steps helps us to improve skills, such as coordination, balance and rhythm. Steady beat competency impacts gross- and fine-motor skills.

We learn to co-ordinate, concentrate, co-operate, take group decisions and have fun doing it. This method promotes group spirit, since we learn to wait our turn, to accept rules and/or create our own, to as¬sume leading roles within the group, to reach common decisions, and to help one another. 
Let’s get creative through collaboration, critical thinking and communication. Let’s achieve and develop listening skills and confidence. Let’s improve coordination, dexterity and motor skills.