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Top Ten Tips For Sight Reading

June 11, 2014 By Sara Mullett Leave a Comment

Sight Reading for Beginners

These Top Ten Tips For Sight Reading will help to tackle a problem that kids often find difficult. While there is no easy fix, it is quite possible to overcome these difficulties with a bit of patience and perseverance. It is important to equip your fledgling pianists with the tools and strategies to solve the […]

Filed Under: 5+, First Piano Lessons, How To Read Music, Musical Activities For... Tagged With: Easy Music Theory, First Piano Lesson Series

Animal Rhythm & Listening Game

June 5, 2014 By Sara Mullett 6 Comments

Animal Rhythm Game

This Animal Rhythm & Listening Game is a great way for little ones to learn about note recognition and note values.  But while they’re having such fun with all the farmyard impersonations, they’ll also be developing valuable listening skills. Building listening skills is such an important thing for small children, because it supports all sorts of other […]

Filed Under: 5+, Musical Memory Game, Preschoolers, Rhythm & Percussion Activities Tagged With: Free Printables, Listening Game, Note Recognition, Rhythm Games

An Easy Way to Teach Kids Rests

May 29, 2014 By Sara Mullett 3 Comments

An Easy Way to Teach Kids Rests

Children can find music rests rather daunting. They have only just learnt to recognise musical notes and their values and suddenly there are even more signs and numbers to grasp!  So here is an easy way to teach kids rests in order to help them recognise and understand them in an easy and approachable way. This […]

Filed Under: 5+, How To Read Music, Musical Activities For..., Musical Memory Game, Preschoolers Tagged With: Rests

The Do Re Mi Staircase

April 16, 2014 By Sara Mullett 4 Comments

Do Re Mi Activities for Kids

An excellent way to learn and practice the Do Re Mi degrees of the scale is to use these little printable people. They can each be coloured to correspond with the colour of your chime bars. Using a staircase to illustrate each step or note is an engaging and visual way of teaching the spacial […]

Filed Under: 5+, Colour Songs, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers Tagged With: Bells, Chime Bars, Free Printables, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

Little Red Riding Hood Storytelling Song

April 10, 2014 By Sara Mullett 13 Comments

Every one knows and loves Little Red Riding Hood but the story is a rather dark tale, and one that you would not normally consider very child friendly. However this never seems to bother little children, even though I would try to gloss over the scary bits, my own kids would only be more fascinated […]

Filed Under: 5+, Imaginative Play, Literacy, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers Tagged With: Fairy Tales, Free Printables, Puppets, Storytelling

1 2 3 4 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive Counting Song

April 7, 2014 By Sara Mullett 8 Comments

One Two Three Four Five Once I Caught a Fish Alive Fishing Game Activity

1 2 3 4 5 Once I Caught A Fish Alive is always a favourite counting song. It encourages little ones to count their fingers from 1 – 10 , while it also has the lovely imaginative actions of catching a wriggly fish from a pond. One, Two, Three, Four, Five,       (count out […]

Filed Under: 5+, Action songs, Counting Songs, Imaginative Play, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Finger Rhymes

5 Bath Time Songs For Kids

April 5, 2014 By Sara Mullett 11 Comments

5 Bath Time Songs for Kids

At the end of a busy day, there is nothing better than a little sing song in the bath and these 5 Bath Time Songs are just what you need to get you started. We all know that singing is good for young children, but with busy schedules and the whirlwind of family life it’s […]

Filed Under: 5+, Baby, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Bath Time Songs, Round-up, Routines, Washing

Piano Hand Position for Kids: Little Hamster Pom-Poms

March 25, 2014 By Sara Mullett 11 Comments

hamster pompom to teach kids piano hand position

Learning the correct piano hand position is one of the first things that kids need to master when beginning to learn the instrument. Young children can often find this a difficult thing to remember, especially when they are trying to learn so many other new skills at the same time. These little hamster pom-poms are […]

Filed Under: 5+, First Piano Lessons, Musical Activities For... Tagged With: Piano Hand Position, Piano technique

Splish, Splash, Splosh! Bath Time Song

March 20, 2014 By Sara Mullett 2 Comments

bath time song

Bath time is a lovely ritual, it’s a relaxing time for play and chatting, and of course some washing too!  Which is always so much more fun when accompanied with a song or three. Splish, Splash, Splosh! is the perfect bath time song to help get the job done! Splish Splash Splosh Bath Time Song Splish, […]

Filed Under: 5+, Baby, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Bath Time Songs, Routines, Washing

Pussycat Pussycat Where Have You Been? First Nursery Rhymes

February 13, 2014 By Sara Mullett 2 Comments

Pussycat

Pussycat Pussycat Where have you been? Is a traditional old English nursery rhyme, which is set in London and describes how a cheeky pussycat goes to visit The Queen, but gets distracted by a little mouse under a chair! Pussycat pussycat where have you been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen! Pussycat […]

Filed Under: Animal Songs, Baby, Imaginative Play, Musical Activities For..., Nursery Rhymes, Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Cats, First Nursery Rhyme Series, Mice, Puppets

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