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Friday Favorites: {The Animal Boogie!}
Dear music therapists, music educators, music therapy students, & caregivers of children, Have you met my friend, “The Animal Boogie”? If you haven’t had the opportunity to use this singable book...
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Friday Favorites: {The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Parachute Style!}
Image Credit If you’ve followed the blog for any time, you will know that both Lyndie and I have an abounding love for the Laurie Berkner Band’s songs. Today’s Friday Favorite is a cover the Laurie...
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Friday Favorites: Brown Bear, Brown Bear Singable Book
Image via Macmillan I think most music therapists that work with kids know how versatile the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear can be during sessions. The words of Brown Bear fit with the first part of the...
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Friday Favorites: {Baby Animals in the Spring}
Image Via Photo Credit: wsimmons We think there are endless possibilities for piggybacking classic children’s songs (examples here and here). Today’s Friday Favorite is no exception! In honor of the...
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Monday Music and Movement: Here Comes Peter Cottontail
One of my favorite songs growing up was “Here Comes Peter Cottontail”. My sisters and I would change the words to go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find different items that my mom would hide....
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Monday Music & Movement: {Old Blue}
Image Via Pretty much every little one I know likes puppies. Today’s therapeutic music intervention uses the first verse of the traditional “Old Blue” to work on expressive and/or receptive color...
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Friday Favorites {Peek-a-boo, Where are the froggies?}
Image credit One of the first mirroring activities that infants learn is “Peek-a-boo”. It’s a guaranteed way to bring a smile to a kid’s face, and it’s easy to adapt! For my version of the activity, I...
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Friday Favorites: {Let’s Go Fishing!}
Today’s Friday favorite is an activity that I adapted from my former (awesome) internship supervisor Julia Lundquist. Almost every child that I work with adores this game, and it addresses fine motor,...
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Friday Favorites: {Today is Monday} Singable Book
Image Credit I love Eric Carle’s books as a mom and a music therapist. The pictures are beautiful and eye catching and many of his books lend themselves to becoming singable books (Brown Bear...
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Friday Favorites: {Old Gray Cats}
Image Via We have been busy at Toneworks getting grant applications ready so that we can start our work again in Early Childhood Special Education classrooms at several Minneapolis schools! In...
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Friday Favorite: {Pete the Cat, Wheels on the Bus}
We’ve shared how much we love the book, “Pete the Cat, I love my White Shoes” in one of our first posts. Well, Pete the Cat is back as a bus driver in this fun singable book. One of the songs that all...
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Monday Music and Movement: {Five Little Ducks}
Image credit One of the ways I like to mix up my individual therapy sessions is to try new spins on client’s favorite songs and activities. During our recent trip to the AMTA national conference,...
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Friday Favorite: {At the Bottom of the Sea}
It’s another “Minnesota’s closed” day due to the wonderful new batch of snow dumped on us last night. Because I can’t share one of my new favorite activities with my ECSE classroom this morning, I’m...
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