Exploring bird sounds with children

“What does a bird say?”  A lot more than tweet, or chirp.   Most children only consider one sound, but an observant child with more experience in bird sounds might ask, “What kind of bird?” 
Fun vocal play with different bird sounds can open up the world of birds, and sounds, with your child, and can have [...]

Homemade Liberty bells RING for Independence Day

For Independence day, encourage your child to make their OWN “Liberty” bell and make their OWN noise to celebrate the freedoms we have in this country !!!   That includes a LOT of freedoms for young musicians!  (Make sure to check out my bell makers at the bottom.)
Making an instrument with your child can be an amazing  journey into [...]

Good children’s music by Eric Herman

Did your kids say they were bored… or maybe that voice was coming from someone a little closer.   Constant parenting needs a few breaks…   DANCE breaks, that is!  It lifts the body, lifts the spirits, and is a great for fun interactions with your children.  ALL at NO COST!
Eric Herman not only MAKES good children’s music [...]

Build Connections and Peace through Music

In so many ways, music allows us to connect, within ourselves, our family, our community, and our world.  That’s why I do what I do.  See my philosophy for creating Music Connections .   My “Summer Series” blog postings will feature unique ways to connect to through music  – for everyone.  The tab at the top [...]

Kids LOVE animals. Share the LOVE and the learning.

To celebrate our love of animals, I am including THREE cool videos.  FIRST, our animal friends help me wish you Happy Valentine’s Day.  THEN,  a lot more variety of animals (more than I knew) help us learn the alphabet (even X).  Be ready to let your children watch these videos repeatedly.  At  the end, there is another cool animal song/video by Eric Herman that [...]

Thanksgiving Games for Family Memories

Thanksgiving Rituals are for making memories, and GAMES are memorable.  NONE of these ideas cost a thing, except a little time.  And to children, love is spelled T-I-M-E.
Thanksgiving Song Writing
Try out this song that is included in “A Year of Fun,  Just for Fives” by Theodosia Spewock.  (This is a fabulous series by the way, [...]

Circle Around with the Native American Culture

 
When people walk into my house and see the hand woven rugs, baskets, art, and more, they wonder how much Native American blood is in my ancestry.  It’s not my blood, nor how I was raised, but since living in Utah amongst red rocks and the Navaho tribes, it IS special places and people carved [...]

Pumpkins aren’t just for Halloween

Pumpkins are a mystical magical fruit, in that they can be so many different things.  There is certainly a magic in the nature of planting the seed and watching it grow, helping it along the way.  There is magic in how it can be transformed into a Pumpkin pie or Pumpkin Cookies.  And there is [...]

Hello Weather, Let’s Make Rain Hats and Rain Shakers

We’re singing, and dancing, and making rain music in our Imagine That! class!  Playing in the rain has never been so fun (and so dry), as with our imaginary musical rain excursions.  To enhance our rain play, students designed and created their own Rain Shakers to use for sound effects in our rain story.  AND they designed, created, [...]

Watch Out – Spontaneous Housecleaning May Occur

Whether it’s “Dust, Dust, Dust”, or “We are clothes in the Washing Machine”, our families are learning some great songs and activities that help make the cleaning up routines at home something to look forward to. 
In the Family Time program, Our Kind of Day, and the Our Time program, Milk & Cookies, children become actively engaged in real life [...]