Children’s Music

Musical Chairs Art: inspired by The Artful Parent (and give-away)

The beautiful book “The Artful Parent” inspired this fun activity – Musical Chairs Painting!

Exploring xylophones in preschool

Exploring the process of playing xylophones and creating our own xylophones with jars of water in preschool.

The watermelon song and lightning bug song and a pumpkin song and a painting!

Starting off with a watermelon song and winding up with our very own songs and a little watermelon painting…

The art of music in preschool

Exploring the sounds of music in a most unusual way in our preschool classroom…

Ring those bells in preschool

Listening with our ears and singing together as we explored bells today in preschool!

Hibernating bears in preschool

Having fun with bears and caves today as we explored hibernation in preschool.

Winner of the National School Supply give-away and a kissing song!

If you didn’t win this give-away, don’t go away sad. Take a listen to the kissing song written and sang by Deborah!

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Is this flower taller or shorter than a preschooler?

The preschoolers got a giggle out of comparing who was taller and who was shorter than the flower!

More with dinosaurs in preschool

We needed a quick song to sing with the children today so my colleague and I begin brainstorming dinosaur words that we could use to go with music we were already familiar with… We had a few songs we had found in books but they were too long or complicated for us to actually remember [...]

Give the gift of music and language learning to your preschoolers

No Time Like the Present: How and Why to Give the Gift of Language Learning to Your Child(ren) Written by my special guest Carolina Gomez. Learning a language is enriching at any age, but it is more challenging when we are adults. Children are the ones who benefit the most simply because there is a special window [...]