Tiny Tunes:
Fact:
Active Music for Toddlers!
90% of the brain is used when a
child actively participates in music
Fact: We retain 50% more when a movement
With
component is added
Fact:
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We are born with pitch and rhythm
6 Terrific Techniques for Teaching Toddler Music:
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1. Eye Contact
2. Encouraging nods and smiles
3. EXPLAIN: Give clear instructions BEFORE activity begins
4. Tempo – slow the song down to teach it –
turn off the boombox whenever possible.
5. Be prepared! Have all materials ready / tapes cued
6. Use props, visuals and manipulatives
About the Presenter: Miss Carole Stephens
(formerly Peterson) grew up in a house with a preschool
attached! She graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in musical theater, acting in shows in
Chicago and New York City (even a stint on All My Children!) before going afloat as a cruise director in the
Caribbean. Back on land again, she hosted the nightly TV show “PM MAGAZINE” before settling down to
“mommy.” She created music classes to meet the needs of her 2 children, who are now twentysomethings.
As MACARONI SOUP, she has been providing musical entertainment and education for children 1 – 10 years
old since 1989. Carole’s CDs have won the Parents’ Choice, NAPPA, I-Parenting Media, Mom’s Choice and
Children’s Music Web Awards, and her website was cited as a top 14 for teachers and parents in 2007.
Carole is available for Kid Classes, Teacher Workshops, and Family Night Concerts
Carole’s Recordings:
“Sticky Bubble Gum…and Other Tasty Tunes”
“H.U.M. – Highly Usable Music – All Year Long!”
“Tiny Tunes”
“Stinky Cake”
“Dancing Feet” and NEW: I’m full of “BALONEY!”
“Teach with enthusiasm, they will learn with enthusiasm!”
“Miss Carole”
All the songs in this workshop are from my “Tiny
Tunes” cd, unless otherwise noted. Many have
familiar tunes – you don’t need the cd to do them, but
you may find it helps! SOTM means it was a “Song of
the Month” on my website – scroll to the bottom of
the SOTM page to see past SOTM’s. To conserve
paper, I have not printed lyrics available there.
(change who helps, and what body part you wash!)
This peek-a-boo can be spoken before returning scarves:
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
on “BALONEY!”
SOTM 10/10
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie (cover head with scarf)
If you hear me, just say HI!
(pull scarf off on HI!)
You can also do this at the end of the day, waiting to
BYE!””
go home, by covering eyes with hands, then say “BYE!
Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed! on H.U.M. cd
Hello everybody, yes indeed, Yes indeed, yes indeed!
Hello everybody, yes indeed. Yes indeed, my darling!
(hello to your toes, head, knees – friends!)
Dancing Scarf Blues SOTM 1/09 Dancing Feet cd
Hicketty Picketty Bumble Bee
you! Great for learning about opposites: front/back,
Hicketty Picketty bumble bee
high/low! I get my scarves from www.rhythmband.com.
For this one, you need the cd – but I just had to share it with
Won’t you say your name for me?
Child: Audrey!
Put Your Little Foot
All: Audrey, Audrey, that’s your name!
Put your little foot, put your little foot,
on Dancing Feet cd
Put your little foot right there. (repeat 2 lines)
Say Good Day!
SOTM 9/06
Now we’ll all stamp our feet, yes we’ll all stamp our feet
Now we’ll all stamp our feet, yes we’ll all stamp our feet!
The Little Mouse Goes Creeping! SOTM 3/07
(crawl, walk, and RUN!)
5 Plump Peas
SOTM 5/05 (spoken fingerplay)
5 plump peas in a peapod pressed
Little Mouse, Little Mouse SOTM 2/11
(on “BALONEY!”)
A felt board activity
One grew, two grew, and so did all the rest
They grew and they grew and they grew and never stopped
They grew so big that the peapod POPPED!
Make a peapod – pattern on website – fold one hand (the
The Mulberry Bush (on Dancing Feet) SOTM 7/09
A circle dance, holding hands, or not.
LEARNING STYLES:
Auditory
3.
Kinesthetic
Kinesthetic
grow, pop up one finger at a time. Move hands further away
from each other, then clap them together on “POPPED!”
FINGERPLAYS CONNECT MIND WITH BODY! Do it again,
1. Visual
2.
peas) and cover it with the other hand (the pod). As they
please!
X Marks the Spot
Clap Clap Clap Your Hands Sticky Bubble Gum cd
(tune: Old Joe Clark)
Clap clap clap your hands, clap your hands together
Clap clap clap your hands, clap your hands together!
La la la la la la la…..etc
(zip in your own verses: stamp your feet, swing your arms,
spoken
(on “BALONEY!”)
X marks the spot
(draw “x” on child’s back)
A circle and a dot
(draw 0, dot the middle)
The ants go marching up your back
(creep fingers from low to high on back)
Rain falls down
(tickle fingers from head to bottom)
Plants grow up
(run pointer finger up the spine)
1 – 2- 3 – 4 GOTCHA!
(pat alternate shoulders,
then bear-hug from behind!)
jump around, turn around – have fun!)
Humpty Dumpty spoken (not recorded)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (stand tip side to side)
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! (flop down)
All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
(pat floor)
(keep patting!)
Couldn’t put Humpty together again (pat body and stand)
The Bathtub Song (use scarves for washcloths)
adapted from Woody Guthrie’s “Clean-O”
Oh mommy oh mommy, come and wash my arms
Hi!
Hi!
You can go to my website for more songs that
are easy, fun, and developmentally appropriate.
If you have questions,
questions, would like to book a
concert,
concert, or comment on something – just call or
email! Thanks for coming
coming today!
Yours for a Song!
Miss Carole
Come and wash my arms, come and wash my arms
Oh mommy, oh mommy, come and wash my arms
And make me clean all over! (Peek-a-Boo!)
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