Happy spring! Enjoy this playlist of visuals and activity ideas about April showers bringing growth, abundance, and a superbloom of May flowers.
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My new Mini Workshop, Tips for Smooth Sailing at Your Ocean Themed Concerts, is now available! Get a myriad of tips & ideas, including props, orchestration ideas, pitch matching activites, and more! Includes so many treasures!
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 scarves to make the strips of fabric.
2. Line up the long narrow strips of fabric in assorted colors.
3. Knot the strips on one end (this is what the children “hide” in their hands).
At the end of this video, you see us using the streamers to Carmina Burana, activity from my book/CD Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move.
Here’s a video playlist of activities that are enhanced by the use of rainsticks and rainbow streamers. The first video is how to make the rainstick.
Here are two more songs that are great with rainbow streamers:
Rainbow ‘Round Me
Hawaiian Rainbows
“Who’s that tapping? Who’s that scratching?”
From our toddlers, preschoolers, and K-2, everyone loves singing “Who’s That Hatching” and playing with their hatching babies! Each child picks a baby animal for the game, and depending on the age of the class, children use ribbed rhythm sticks, tone blocks, or Orff instruments to accompany. Grade 1-2 has fun creating their “egg” rhythms with the babies tapping their way out of the shells!
Take a peek at a clip from one of my Live Teacher Trainings for a lesson on “Who’s That Hatching?”. In this video, half of the class plays Orff instruments while the others sing for the babies. The other half of teachers listen, then match their pitches.
We have so many hatching animal puppets in the Music Rhapsody Store! You can also make your own with the pattern on page 58 of the In All Kinds of Weather, Kids Make Music Book and CD.
Please note: We just learned my books with Alfred Publishing will be increasing in price soon. If you don’t have these yet, check out the Book Pack Special for the best value.
What a year its been! Put yourself and your students in a great mood by singing and moving to this delightful song (and round!) about laughing and the arrival of summer!
I just introduced my after school class to this for singing and Orff. Have a listen, and notice their creative choices for LOL! Be sure to watch until the end for ALL the laughs!
The music and activity suggestions are in a new FREE download in Music Box. Not yet a member? We’d love to have you join us!
And speaking about the arrival of summer, don’t forget to check out the info on our June Teacher Training!