1. Set up a proper bow hold and place the bow on your left shoulder with your right arm at a right angle. (Be sure to be wearing a sleeved shirt when you do this bow arm movement exercise because you don’t want the oil of your skin to get on the horsehair. Be sure that you’re horsehair is only touching your clothes and not your skin.)
2. Check your bow hold that you have a bent thumb, middle and ring fingers are relaxed and can pet the frog. The index finger is also very relaxed and you have a nice curved pinky.
3. Take your left hand put it on the bicep of your right arm. Both arms are now at right angles in front of you. This is why I call it magical genie because you look like a genie when you’re doing this.
4.  We are holding on to the right bicep with our left hand to be sure that it does not move as we bow. This right upper arm has to stay still. Bow down (pull the bow away from you) and then bow up (pushing the bow towards you.) Simply practice down and up bows on your shoulder while holding onto your right bicep. Once you are able to do this, you are ready for the next step.
5. Apply rhythms to your magical genie. If you are familiar with the Twinkle rhythms, practice bowing Mississippi stop stop. Do about five of those. Feel really comfortable with that and then you could start doing the other rhythms, down titi up titi, ice-cream cone and the alligator alligator, however you want to call them with their with the names or the words that you put with them but that way you can practice your bow hold keeping the height of your elbow up and keeping your right upper arm still.

Have fun with your magical genie practicing that bow hold and bow arm movement without needing the violin!