How to Do the Tip Toe Dance in 5 Moves
The tip toe dance is 5 moves: creep forward on tiptoe with a finger to your lips, shush, grin, spring up with your arms flung wide, then bounce on your toes. In the meme clip, all 5 happen in the first 12 seconds. A partner can play the woman in the hay, who reacts twice.
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The 5 tip toe dance moves, in order
All 5 moves happen in the first 12 seconds of the meme clip.
| Move | Seconds, roughly | How to do it |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The creep | 0–1 | Bend your knees, rise onto your toes and take small steps forward. Bring a finger to your lips halfway through. |
| 2. The shush | 1–2 | Lean in toward the camera, finger on your lips: “shhh.” |
| 3. The grin | About 3 | Look straight into the camera with a sly, closed-mouth grin. |
| 4. The spring | 4–6 | Spring up onto your toes and fling both arms wide. Let your coat tails swing. |
| 5. The bounce | 6–12 | Keep your arms wide and bounce on your toes, grinning, eyes darting to one side. Your feet keep prancing on tiptoe. |
Frames from an AI-generated example video made on this site: the moves follow the meme clip, the faces come from AI-generated sample photos.
The partner’s part: the woman in the hay
If you dance as a duo, your partner sits in the hay, or on the floor, and reacts twice in the gaps between your moves:
- Around 2 seconds, right after the shush: one hand over the mouth, eyes wide.
- Around 3 to 4 seconds, right after the grin: the little man’s hand grips the hair, and the partner makes a fist under the chin, mouth open.
Frames from the same AI-generated example video made on this site.
She stays seated the whole time. He dances, she looks frightened: NBC News describes her as “frightened to tears.” Dancing alone? Skip the two gaps and go straight from move to move.
How to practice the tip toe dance
- Learn the moves in order first, then speed up until all 5 fit into about 12 seconds.
- Practice barefoot or in flat, flexible shoes. The whole dance is on tiptoe.
- Keep the creep small and crouched. From the spring on, your arms stay flung wide.
- Don’t forget the face: the finger to the lips, the sly grin and the eyes darting to one side are all in the clip.
- Play the song the meme is set to, Riff Raff’s “Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz,” once you have the order down.
Doing the tip toe dance in costume at a Halloween party
- Shoes you can rise onto your toes in. You don’t need Jordans: in the clip he wears curled pointy shoes. Curled toe covers over flexible flats are easier to dance in than stiff costume shoes. See how to make Rumpelstiltskin shoes.
- Tails that swing. A tailcoat, or a jacket with fabric tails pinned on, shows off the bounce. The full outfit is in our Tip Toeing in My Jordans costume guide.
- Room to spring. Clear a few steps of floor in front of your partner before you start.
- A partner in the hay. A friend in a cream dress, seated, does the two reactions.
Film your tip toe dance like the meme
The meme clip never moves the camera. It cuts hard between a wide shot, close-ups and the feet. To copy that with one phone:
- Prop the phone up so it stays still. Film the creep and the spring as a wide shot from behind your partner’s shoulder, the way the clip opens.
- Film the shush and the grin again as close-ups, with the phone near your face.
- Film your partner’s two reactions as close-ups.
- Film the bounce from the waist up, with the phone a little low.
- Film a few seconds of your feet prancing, with the phone low to the floor.
- Cut the clips together in the meme’s order: wide, close-up, her, close-up, her, wide, then waist-up shots of you and your feet, back and forth.
Skip the dancing: put your face in the original scene
No hay bales at home? Upload a photo and the AI makes a 12-second version of the barn scene with your face on the little man: the creep, the shush, the spring and the bounce, in the original costume, in 9:16 vertical or 16:9 widescreen. Add a friend’s photo for the woman in the hay.
Make yours with the Rumpelstiltskin AI video generator, or see how to make a Rumpelstiltskin AI video step by step. A 12-second 720p video starts at $9.99.
Put yourself in the tip toe danceTip toe dance FAQs
How do you do the tip toe dance?
Creep forward on tiptoe with a finger to your lips, shush at the camera, grin, then spring up with your arms flung wide and keep bouncing on your toes. In the meme, all of it happens in the first 12 seconds.
What song is the tip toe dance to?
Riff Raff’s “Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz,” released on June 10, 2014, and sometimes called “Tiptoeing in My Jordans.” A TikTok user paired it with the clip in late September 2026.
Can you do the tip toe dance as a couple?
Yes. One person dances as the little man. The other sits as the woman in the hay and reacts twice: a hand over the mouth, then a hand in the hair with a fist under the chin.
Is the tip toe dance from a real movie?
No. The clip is an AI video first posted on Instagram on August 27, 2026. It isn’t a scene from the 1987 Rumpelstiltskin film.
Sources
- Know Your Meme, “AI Rumpelstiltskin / Tip Toein' In My Jordans”
- Know Your Meme, “Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz”
- NBC News, “An AI-generated Rumpelstiltskin meme is freaking out much of the internet” (October 7, 2026)
- Wikipedia, “Tip Toe Wing in My Jawwdinz”
- Move order and rough timing: from watching the first 12 seconds of the meme clip, October 21, 2026.