And just to prove that I am not a great singer but still sing to my kids, here is a quick video of me singing while my four year old plays with the jelly fish puppets!Īll of the songs mentioned above also work well even if you don’t have puppets.
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You can download my Five Green and Speckled Frogs, Five Little Ducks and Three Jelly Fish puppets for free. Older kids love to get involved, using the puppets themselves which also encourages them to sing along. Simple printed stick puppets, homemade sock puppets and commercially made puppets all lend themselves to singing with kids and taking the focus off you. I love to make and use puppets when I sing. You can also have fun making the animal dance or walk around while you sing.Īctions using plastic animals also work well with Old McDonald Had a Farm. Then when you get to the part where you make the animal noise, encourage everyone to join in. “ hold up the chosen animal and get your child/children to say its name. As you get to the part where you say “I met a …. Ask your child to choose an animal and begin to sing. Set up a small selection of plastic farm animals on a rug or table. Here are some ideas for animal songs you can sing and some simple props to go with them… Using props or actions when singing with young children is lots of fun for them, it captures their attention even further, and it can help you focus on the task and worry less about how you sound! Some of our favourite songs to sing with props and actions are animal songs (it’s hard to worry about how you sound when you are busy oinking like a pig!) It can be hard to get over our hang-ups and ignore every off key note so sometimes it helps to have a distraction.
He enjoys me being there, having fun and interacting with him. I try not to listen to myself too much and I try not to get too hung up on how I sound because my toddler couldn’t care less if I was a world class opera singer or if I couldn’t carry a single note. It assists language acquisition, can soothe a troubled moment, capture their imagination, make them laugh and introduce new ideas, as well as teaching simple musical concepts. Singing to and with young children is important. It doesn’t stop me from singing to my kids. I am not the world’s best singer and that’s okay. This post is by regular contributor Kate Fairlie of Picklebums.
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