Physical education teachers enjoy the special privilege of guiding children to discover unique ways for expressing and communicating ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and emotions through movement. Creative dance lets children explore movement possibilities limited only by one's imagination. Individually and collectively, creative dance encourages students to create, interpret, and apply multiple responses to movement questions posed by the teacher. In this article, the author states that it is vital that physical education teachers provide students with a variety of movement opportunities that exercise and bring expression to one's whole being. He states that an effective method for engaging intermediate grade students in initial creative dance lessons is to introduce themes related to their interests and experiences. Physical educators with limited dance background can easily capitalize on movement ideas presented in contexts of individual and team sports. Combining sport themes with dance is one of many ways of having students think and move creatively. Sport provides a common and familiar starting point for children and can be used as a means of teaching the basic elements of dance. Connecting dance with sport and play provides students with a deeper appreciation and enjoyment of movement.