Art Songs

Here are a few songs to celebrate the little artist in your life. When talking about art in a classroom or at home, it is a great opportunity to do some hands on learning about colors and color mixing. Enjoy!

Full body painting with toddlers.

Building a Statue
(Tune: Tiny Tim)

I’m building a statue,
For everyone to see.
I’m working on it now,
Not sure what it will be!

Won’t use a hammer or a chisel,
Marble or clay,
I’ll only use my body,
Make it FREEZE… and it will stay!
What a beautiful statue! 

*For this song, I pick a few children to be my "statues." They dance during the song and when we shout "freeze" they turn their bodies into statues. Then all the other children in the circle say, "What a beautiful statue!"

I'm not sure if the smock helped at all!

Primary Colors
(Tune: Three Blind Mice)

Red, Yellow, Blue. 
Red, Yellow, Blue.
I see you. Red, Yellow, Blue.
You are the primary colors.
You make all the other colors.
Red, Yellow, Blue.
Red, Yellow, Blue.

Painting
(Tune: My Bonnie)

I dip my paintbrush in red.
I dip my paintbrush in blue.
I’m making the color purple,
To paint a picture for you!

Painting, painting. Painting a picture for you (for you)!
Painting, painting. I’m painting a picture for you!

I dip my paintbrush in yellow.
I dip my paint brush in blue.
I’m making the color green,
To paint a picture for you.

Painting, painting. Painting a picture for you (for you)!
Painting, painting. I’m painting a picture for you!

I dip my paintbrush in yellow.
I dip my paint brush in red,
Now, I’m painting with orange,
To make a self-portrait instead!

Painting, painting. Painting a picture for you (for you)!
Painting, painting. I’m painting a picture for you!

Another fun music/art activity is painting to music. Before you try this activity, I would have a conversation with your children about how music makes you feel and how some paintings make you feel. Then pick a few very different songs. Give the children the opportunity to make a different painting for each song. See how different they look. (They trick to this one is getting the children to only touch their paintbrush once they hear the music.)

Happy Singing!

Sod Room: Week One

Here are a few of the songs we sang this week. We sang about colors and shapes, but there are a whole lot of new songs for you to learn!

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Welcome to Music
(Tune: Shortening Bread)

Welcome to music, music, music,
Welcome to music class today.
Welcome to music, music, music,
Welcome to music class today.

We're here to dance and sing a song,
Come on friends and sing along.
We're here to dance and sing a song,
Come on friends and sing along.

Welcome to music, music, music,
Welcome to music class today.
Welcome to music, music, music,
Welcome to music class today.

Shapes
(Tune: “Row, row”)

Square, square is a shape.
Tell me what you see?
Four corners. Four sides.
A square is what we see!

Red Balloon
(Tune: Mary Wore Her Red Dress)

The red balloon goes sailing, sailing, sailing,
The red balloon goes sailng, sailing...POP!

The Red Balloon song can also be used as a name song. Instead of a color sing a child's name.

For example: "Sarah's balloon goes sailing, sailing, sailing. Sarah's balloon goes sailing, sailing...POP!"

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Goodbye Songs

Skinnamarink

Skinnamarink-ee dink-ee dink.
Skinnamarink-ee doo!
I love you!
Skinnamarink-ee dink-ee dink.
Skinnamarink-ee doo!
I love you!

I love you in the morning and in the afternoon,
I love you in the evening and underneath the moon.

Ooo! Skinnamarink-ee dink-ee dink.
Skinnamarink-ee doo!
I love you! And You! 
Boo-boo-bee-doo!

Here is a wonderfully 80's version of this song. Our hand movement are very similar, but our version is much shorter! This was made in 1984 for the Canadian children's show: The Elephant show. The song was originally written in 1910 by Filex F. Fiest and Al Piantidosi for a Broadway musical called "The Echo."

Open-Shut Them

Open-shut them, open-shut them.
Give a little clap, clap, clap.
Open-shut them, open-shut them.
Put them in your lap, lap, lap.

Creep them, creep them, slowly creep them.
Right up to your chin, chin, chin.
Open wide your little mouth.... (AHHHH!)
But do not let them in!

Wave them, wave them, really wave them.
Right up to the sky, sky, sky.
Wave them once, then blow a kiss.
It's time to say goodbye!

This song is a classic, but incase you haven't heard it, here is a version that is pretty similar to the version we sing.

I look forward to seeing you all again soon!

Happy Singing!