Happy spring! Enjoy this playlist of visuals and activity ideas about April showers bringing growth, abundance, and a superbloom of May flowers. In Case You Missed It My new Mini Workshop, Tips for Smooth Sailing at Your Ocean Themed Concerts, is now available! Get a...
Using Rhymes in the Rain, the sky is the limit for creativity for you and your young students! New visuals/PowerPoints are now available in our Big Kids Make Music curriculum! Not yet a member? Join the fun! 1. Free Exploration: Instruments in C pentatonic, invite the...
Music! It’s timing, form, math, phrasing, coordination, movement, playing, singing, creating, listening, improvisation! These two February videos are songs who’s activities offer all of the above! First up are two videos to share with you students (great for 2-6 year...
Creative Moves for Oktoberfest! Here’s some ideas for your classes to make up their own moves during Oktoberfest! Get creative with claps, slaps, taps and flaps! Perhaps shapes, even wooden spoons and cuicas! If you haven’t seen this month’s mini workshop, download it...
Making a rain stick is easy and a bouquet of flowers (rainbow streamers!) is quick and simple! Here’s how easy the streamers are to make: Gather your old, frayed scarves. This is the only thing you need! 1. Pull on both sides of the tear on your used fraying...
The reasons I love using sopranino recorder in my lessons - Orff Exploration Time, a musical start and stop signal! This handy little tool is a part of my online and live training course and used in my lesson plans, both elementary and early childhood. Here's some...
Apple Tree! Who could guess how much this song motivates children to participate! Apples come in many colors and varieties. There are hundreds of recipes calling for apples. There’s several ways to cut apples, and ways to eat them! The Apple Tree* is an absolutely...
Planning concerts around a theme is always motivating for me. Choosing songs, creating our own verses and movement, solo singing, playing instruments, and beat keeping are all beautiful demonstrations of what we do in our weekly music lessons. I especially love it...
Baby/Toddler Music Classes: I was asked about many questions about baby and toddler music so thought I would give my recommendations for teachers who are new to working with Early Childhood, specifically Baby/Toddler Ages. First of all, Get Training ASAP! Why not use...
I'm so excited to announce that my latest book and CD, Holiday Songs and Winter Adventures, is finally HERE! AND… there’s a new workshop planned too! I can’t wait to share all this with you. Watch here! Watch this lovely video, animated by one of my former...