Activities Using Music and Rhymes for Early
Childhood Education
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Songs from A to Z - MP3 Songs
Printable Music Games
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Circle
Songs
& Games: The Wheels on the Bus; Ring Around the Rosy;
Sally Go Round the Sun
Eency Weency Spider Five
Little Frogs If You're
Happy Musical Shapes
Game Head,
Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Row, Row, Row Your Boat Songs & Rhyme Activity
Cards Twinkle,
Twinkle
Little
Star
Eency, Weency Spider (or Itsy Bitsy Spider)
Find
Eency, Weency Spider Books at Amazon.com
Music
Itsy
Bitsy Spider Lyrics and Music
Props
For younger children:
Print a spider
pattern (or make a spider pattern by making a circle, draw eight
legs on it, and two eyes.)
Make a sun (or print a sun or
a sun
with a face) and rain drops coming out of a cloud (or print
cloud and
raindrops or a blue-green
cloud and raindrops).
Color and laminate them. Have the children show each
pictures, as the words are song in this song.
For the water spout, have the child/ren, move the spider up
as this part is song.
This can also be used as a flannel board story. You will
need a strip of felt for the water spout. Have the child/ren
climb up (or down) the water spout.
If you like, you can go to The Itsy Bitsy
Spider @ DLTK-Kids to find other props and resources.
Use the instructions located at: Flannel
Board Stories, Songs, and Rhymes for Children and use the
laminated props (or make felt ones).
Age Level: Babies through Early Elementary Grades
Eency, Weency
Spider Sheet Music
American Folk
Songs: Eency, Weency Spider @ Guitar-Primer
For Babies:
For the spider, climb up the babies body with your fingers.
Climb down the babies body. When the spider is washed out,
throw your arms to the sides.
When the sun comes out, raise hands above head to make a circle
for sun.
Climb up the babies body again and tickle him/her (if you like).
For Toddlers and Older
Have the children do the actions of the song with you.
To make a spider, move thumbs and index fingers back and forth
touching each other.
When the rain comes down, move fingers down like rain falling from
the clouds. When the spider is washed out, throw arms
to the sides.
When the sun comes out, raise hands above head to make a circle
for sun.
When the spider goes down the spout, move thumbs and index fingers
back and forth touching each other.
Variation: You can color a picture located at Enchanted
Learning - Itsy Bitsy Spider and use it for older children.
Five
Little
Frogs
If You're Happy and You Know It
Find
If You're Happy and You Know It! Books at Amazon.com
Age Level: Toddlers through Early Elementary
Lesson Sequence:
1. Sing the song: "If You're Happy and You Know It".
You can go to If
You're
Happy
and You Know It where you can see the words and hear
the music. This is is a fun site!
Also go to Happy
and You Know It or If
You're
Happy
And You Know It.
If You're Happy
Author: Unknown
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap
clap)
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap
clap)
If you're happy and you know it, Then your face will surely show
it.
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.
Other verses:
snap your fingers (snap snap)
touch you head (touch touch)
You can touch any other body part.
2. Do the actions stated in the song. For example, clap your
hands, stomp your feet, etc.
3. Have the children do the motions with you.
Note: The baby and toddler will learn the actions as you show
them to the child.
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Musical Shapes Game
Age Level: Toddlers through Early Elementary Grades
Materials needed: Different colored circles cut from
colored paper or fabric; sing a song, recorded music or
instruments (tape or CD)
Tape or place the circles on the floor in a large circle.
Have the children walk around the outside of the large circle as
music is played. When the music stops, each child names the
color of the circle he or she is standing by. Continue as
long as the children are interested. For variation, use
different shapes and colors and have the children name the color
and the shape.
Head, Shoulders,
Knees, and Toes (My Body)
Find
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes Books at Amazon.com
Age Level: Toddlers through Early Elementary Grades
There are different songs you can use to teach children body
parts.
1st Version
Head,
Shoulders, Knees, and Toes @ lds.org (pdf)
The other song is called Head
Shoulders.
NIEHS Sing Along has two versions: or #1
and #2.
2nd Version
Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes
Tune of: "London Bridges"
Author: Unknown
Head and shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head and shoulders, knees and toes,
And eyes, ears, mouth and nose.
Ankles, elbows, feet and seat,
Feet and seat, feet and seat,
Ankles, elbows, feet and seat,
And hair, hips, chin and cheeks.
Head and shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes, knees and toes.
Ankles, elbows, feet and seat,
And eyes, ears, mouth and nose.
Lesson Sequence:
1. Ask the children, "Where is / are your ..." Keep on
asking this questions for the different body parts (eyes, ears,
mouth, nose, teeth, legs, feet, arms, head, shoulders, etc.)
Have the children point to each body part you mention.
2. Now we are going to sing a song about our body.
(Choose one of the songs to sing and do the other song another
day.) You need to point to the body part I'm talking about as you
sing.
Note: If the children are unable to sing, you can sing to them
and they can point to their body parts that is mentioned in the
song.
For Babies:
1. Sing the song to your baby.
2. Ask your baby, "Where is / are your ..." Keep on asking
this question for the different body parts (eyes, ears, mouth,
nose, teeth, legs, feet, arms, head, shoulders, etc.). Point
to each body part and say, "This is / are your ..."
Note: You can do the two above activities at different
times.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Find
Row, Row, Row Your Boat Books at Amazon.com
Age Level: Babies and Early Elementary Grades
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Author: Unknown
Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Activities:
Baby: Put your baby laying on your lap and sing the
song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" to him or her. Move his or
her legs like a bicycle as you sing the song.
Toddlers: Tell them "Let's row like a boat, (swing back and
forth)", and then sing the song to them or with them.
Preschool - Early Elementary Grades: Sing the song.
You can sing in it in a round several times.
Songs & Rhyme
Activity Cards
Age Level: Babies through Elementary Grades
Have your children color a picture or you can do it yourself
located below. You can also use old magazine pictures,
postcards, calendars, other things that have pictures that are in
different rhymes or songs. Color, then glue each picture on
the folder, cardboard, or place them in plastic clear pages. You
can have the folders or paper laminated to have them last
longer. If you are using cardboard, put masking tape on all
four sides so it will stay on. (If you do not know the words
of the song or rhyme, you can place them on the back on the
card. You can also write other activities that relate to
that song or rhyme on the back of the activity card, place them in
the folder, or behind the picture in the plastic page.) As
you sing the song or say the rhyme, show the picture to your
children or have your children hold it for you. You can call
these cards whatever, the song or rhyme is for example, "Old Mac
Donald Had A Farm Activity Card".
Resources to find rhyme and song pictures:
Nite Owl's The songs
are "Hickory Dickory Dock", "Mary Had a Little Lamb", "Old
McDonald Had a Farm", "All Around the Mulberry Bush", "Pop Goes
the Weasel", "Rain, Rain (Go Away)", "Rock-a-Bye Baby", "Yankee
Doodle", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and lots of rhymes.
Enchanted
Learning
-
Coloring Pages
Enchanted
Learning - Rhymes
Nursery
Rhymes Theme
Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star
Find
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Books at Amazon.com
Age Level: Babies through Early Elementary
Sing the song:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Author: Unknown
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
(open and shut hands)
how I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high.
Like a diamond in the sky.
(put hands like a diamond above head)
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
(open and shut hands)
how I wonder what you are.
Color the picture located at Nite Owl's
or Enchanted
Learning and use it to sing the song.
Sing the song doing the action listed above. Have the
children do the actions with you.
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