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Handprint Flowers Craft

3/28/2020

Handprint Flowers Craft

A fun Spring craft to brighten this rainy day! Ms. Liv and her kids made handprint flowers this week and hung them in a front window. For people passing by, we hope it brings joy to their day! Grow a little joy for your home and neighbors/community with this fun craft! Make it your own - no need to be traditional with colors or follow the directions exactly - just use what you have at home and share your artwork in the comments below!

Basic Materials Needed:
Paper (either various colors or color/paint white paper before tracing hands)
Pencil
Scissors
Popsicle Sticks
Paint or Markers (to cover the Popsicle sticks)
Glue stick or bottle

Craft Source: Gluedtomycraftsblog.com

Making Music Indoors

3/27/2020

Making Music Indoors

Making music together brings joy to families and movement to little ones! The weather looks a bit unsettled over the next few days, so we're sharing some ideas from Kindermusik on how to make music indoors. Check out the link below for more details on a band in a basket, fabric dancing, musical chairs, laundry basket hayrides, and building forts. Not only will this provide for musical moments, but truly musical memories together as a family.

5 Simple Ways to Make Musical Fun Indoors

Inspiration for Backyard Adventures: A Musical Summer Day

3/26/2020

Inspiration for Backyard Adventures: A Musical Summer Day

Right now is the perfect time to have some musical adventures in your backyard. Children are drawn to creative outdoor play and whether they're observing birds flying around or flowers sprouting from the ground, there are things to see, feel, and hear. In Kindermusik class we often replicate the outdoors while we're indoors. Now is your chance to really dive into some of the concepts that we've introduced in our classes such as call and response style songs, active listening activities, building routines and so forth. Try these easy family activities to add a lovely tune to your day. Kindermusik has provided inspired activities and musical tracks to play directly from the link below.

A Musical Summer Day

Literacy & Music: Book Review Kate the Great and the Middle C Music Shop

3/25/2020

Literacy & Music: Book Review Kate the Great and the Middle C Music Shop

Literacy is a big part of the Kindermusik philosophy. During this time you can be expanding your child's exposure to literacy at home with many wonderful books and resources you already have! You can use your home materials from class or even re-read your child's favorite book over and over again since children truly do learn best through repetition. Today we are sharing a book review from Kindermusik to build the bridge between literacy and music even more. Kate the Great and the Middle C Music Shop is the first book in the Kate the Great picture book series, written by Wayne Bartholomew and Jaime Garcia and is a kind of interactive comic book style picture book. With the gentle guidance of an adult, an open-ended interpretation of the illustrations, and listening to the instruments at www.katethegreatcomics.com while you read the book, the book promises to provide a delightful and innovative experience with the instruments – and will likely cause you and your child to listen to music in a whole new way! You may already own this book, but if not, there are sample pages included on the Kate the Great website as well as a link to online retailers where it is available for purchase, OR you can even just use the website to listen to music and the instruments in the book to explore the sounds with your little one at home! Explore the links below to learn more.

Kate the Great and the Middle C Book Shop Review

Kate the Great Website

Instrument Sounds

How to Make Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppets

3/24/2020

How to Make Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppets

How Musial Routines Boost Family Productivity

3/23/2020

How Musical Routines Boost Family Productivity

Routines bring motivation, productivity, comfort, and even relaxation. Musical routines can help secure healthy morning and evenings to jump start your family’s daily success. Kindermusik has compiled some musical tracks that are included in the article to give you options as predictable cues. They can get everyone on the right track as you begin, work together during, and close the day (morning songs, clean-up songs, bedtime songs, etc.) Have a great start to the week!

Read the Article Here

7 Ways to Make Musical Moments at Home - FREE Kindermusik Moves Me Playlist Download!

3/22/2020

7 Ways to Make Musical Moments at Home - Free Kindermusik Moves Me Playlist Download!

Today we are sharing 7 ways to make musical moments at home! Try one today or use this as a planner for the week ahead using one per day! We've also included a FREE Kindermusik Moves Me Playlist Download. It includes some Kindermusik songs that you can sing and move to together as a family! Here's a preview of the ideas. Click the links below for more detailed descriptions of each idea, as well as the music download. Enjoy being together and singing and moving at home!

7 Ways to Make Musical Moments at Home
1. Turn on Some Gentle Music and Blow Bubbles
2. Color to Music with Sidewalk Chalk
3. Use Painter’s Tape to Create Roads and Movement Pathways
4. Make a Homemade Instrument… or Two!
5. Start your Own Marching Band
6. Play a Musical Alphabet Chairs Game.
7. Dance Like Nobody’s Watching!

7 Ways to Make Musical Moments at Home

Kindermusik Moves Me Playlist Songs
1. I Love My Family
2. Everybody Loves Baby
3. Is this Love?
4. Love Somebody

FREE Kindermusik Moves Me Playlist Download

Transitions During the Day at Home

3/21/2020

Transitions During the Day at Home

Being at home can provide the need for a lot of transitions throughout the day. Tap into your child's love of games to create easier transitions from one activity to another. Invite your child to play the “1, 2, 3, Count with Me!” game as you count together how many toys to put away, how many steps it takes to get to the bathtub, or even how many people need a plate for dinner. You an also try singing the "ABC Song" and give your child an ABC Challenge for any transition during the day. Try getting all the toys away, coat and shoes on, to the dinner table, etc. by the time you get to the end of the song..."Next time won't you sing with me!" Add an extra element of fun by trying different types of movement.

Also, keep celebrating Spring with these 5 ideas! Read the article below and share your memories made in the comments below or on our Facebook Page!

5 Ways to Celebrate Spring with Music & Movement

Happy Spring from Sing N Move!

3/20/2020

Happy Spring from Sing N Move!

It's the first day of Spring and we are thinking sun, sun sun! Celebrate the start of Spring with these wonderful resources below! A lap bounce video with Ms. Lena to "Row Row Row Your Boat" and also a tissue flower craft tutorial! Sending lots of musical thoughts to you and yours!

Lap Bounce with Ms. Lena

Tissue Flower Craft Tutorial

Music & Math

3/19/2020

Music & Math

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No one understands your little one better than you! After all, you know what your child likes to eat and how (while standing up, with foods not touching one another, and with everything on a special plate…), the best way to entice a full belly laugh, and the difference between the “I’m hurt” cry and the “I’m really tired” cry. But did you know that your little one is already a budding mathematician? It’s true!

Learning about the building blocks of math—such as size, measurement, pattern recognition, and counting by rote—starts early. Here are some suggestions for incorporating math into your day today!

Give your child a medium-sized container like a cloth bin, a basket, or even an empty diaper box. Provide toys or toddler-safe objects for him to put in and then dump out of the container (over and over again). This kind of play allows your child to explore the basic math concepts of size, measurement, and capacity.

Also, we've included a link below to a free resource from Kindermusik. This Kindermusik e-book--Music and…Math—includes musical activities to do together as a family. Have fun being together and learning at the same time!

E-book - Music & Math

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