- [Zach] It's time to get active.

Let's move.

- My name is Mackie, And I work at the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City.

And I'm so excited you all have joined us for creative movement today.

Now it's time to explore some lines and shapes with our body.

So here I have some flashcards with different lines and shapes on them.

And when I pull out a flashcard, I'll show it to you so you can see it.

And then I want you to trace out or make that shape with your body.

So here's an example.

Let's try it.

We'll start off pretty easy with a circle shape.

[peaceful music] How can you make a circle with your body?

How can we make a circle?

First, we could start making a circle with our arms, as much of the circle, or there we go, that we could make it with our arms.

Or even down here in front of us or to the side.

Now, let's put our hands together and trace a big, big circle in the air using every part of our body, like our fingers are pencils, and we're drawing a big, big circle in the air.

Let's try it.

Starting really low and working our way all the way up with our big, big circle all the way around.

Nice job with our big circle.

All right, what kind of line or shape will be next?

What about a zigzag line?

How can you make a zigzag line with your body?

Make it like zigzagging like that?

Even use your, using your legs you can make a zigzag line.

Little bit.

Now let's clap our hands together, and let's trace a big, big zig-zag line in the air.

You can start, start up high, tracing that zigzag through the air with our really pointy parts of that line, right?

Zigzags are pointy.

Awesome job.

Let's see what's next.

Okay, the opposite of a zigzag comes a smooth squiggly line.

How can we make a squiggly line with our body?

A really smooth line, moving really smooth back and forth like our squiggly line.

Clap our hands together if you haven't already, and let's trace that big, big squiggly line in the air.

Squiggly line, different from our pointing line, right?

Tracing that in the air all the way down to the ground.

Now let's go from the ground back up.

Squiggle our line and make it really big.

All the way up.

Nice job.

Let's see what's next in our line flashcards.

Oops.

We have three lines that make up a shape, and that is a triangle.

How can we make a triangle with our body?

I think I would maybe start making my bottom half small and a triangle like this over my head.

You can try to make a triangle sideways.

Ooh, straighten it out.

There you go.

Let's trace a big, big triangle like our hands are pencils and we're tracing that triangle in the air.

Hands come together.

Let's start up at the top.

Triangle up here, all the way down, across and back up again.

Nice job, everybody, with our lines and shapes flashcards.