Jump Jim Joe

Jump Jim Joe is an upbeat and energetic social dance from New England, USA. It’s great for warming up your body and provides a lot of possibilities for movement.

You can partner up with someone else or you can use your favourite fluffy toys to dance and bounce with!

This is also a great sensory warm-up that allows you to bring in physical items for members of your group to use if they’d rather not partner up. 

We've added our own simple actions and gestures to the song e.g. jumping, nodding, tapping toes and bending knees/ bouncing in time to the music.

It can be adapted for all levels and needs by using hand-over-hand and partner work, meaning this can be used as a warm-up or a movement activity.

In our accessible warm-up guides, we use picture prompts alongside the words to the warm-up to help the group as they learn the song. 

Alongside the resource pack, we've also created this video of one of our AAM leaders teaching the full warm-up to help you as you learn it too.

Download Jump-Jim-Joe.zip (17 MB)

Activity Type: Warm-Up

Length: Up to 15 minutes