Old chestnuts are often the best and Incy Wincy or Itsy Bitsy Spider is certainly a firm favourite when it comes to Nursery Rhymes and baby songs. Singing finger rhymes like this is brilliant practice for speech development and nursery rhymes and baby songs in particular encourage the repetition of shaping vowels and consonants, all […]
Top 10 Nursery Rhymes for Toddlers & Kids
These 10 nursery rhymes for toddlers and kids include just some of the best most educational nursery rhymes, but I’ve chosen these ones specifically because I’ve found them to be the most useful over the years of teaching music to small children. Music is a language, and since all children are born being unable to […]
Lesson Plan: Spiders
This week’s lesson plan is all about spiders and I always find it’s very popular even with little babies of 9 months right through to five year olds. There is lots of rhythm work and imaginative movement for the older children, and the younger ones enjoy the visual storytelling with lots of tickling and giggles. […]
My Little Spider Finger Rhyme
This simple little finger rhyme is just perfect for Babies and Toddlers. It is also excellent for helping little ones who might be a little worried about creepy crawlies! For babies, this finger rhyme is great fun – with lots of tickles – and for toddlers it can sit alongside songs such as Incy Wincy Spider and […]
Little Miss Muffet and Spider Finger Rhymes
Little Miss Muffet is a lovely little song which happily lends itself to a makeshift puppet show. All you need is a favourite dolly, a bowl and spoon and a little pretend spider on a string. You can make a spider easily either with an egg carton and pipe cleaners or something like the pin […]