Happy Notes

April Showers

March 24th, 2009

As the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers” so let’s go “singing in the rain” and enjoy creating the rhythm of the rain using paper plates.  Tap the plates together to create the pitter patter sound moving slow then fast.  Swish the plates to mimic the sound of splashing in the puddles then stomp [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 16th, 2009

Celebrate the “wearing of the green” in song as children sing along to “The Unicorn Song”.  They’ll have fun mimicking the movements of “green alligators and long neck geese, humpty back camels and chimpanzee.  Cats and rats and elephants…….”  One of my other favorites is “The Irish Washerwoman”.  Children can pat, tap, clap and use [...]

Bubbles of Joy

March 6th, 2009

Create your own bubble symphony with music and song and lots of bubbles from Gymboree Bubbles.  They are fantastic bubbles that float and dance to the music. Note: They do leave a slight residue that washes quickly away).  Sing along with children to One little, two little, three little bubbles, four little, five little, six [...]

March In Like A Lion

March 2nd, 2009

March comes in like a lion.  Well maybe not in Phoenix, Arizona where temperatures are now in the 80s. But elsewhere the saying holds true and March will hopefully go out like a lamb so we can dance into springtime. Celebrate this month with this song to the tune of London Bridges Falling Down as [...]

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