“We have been able to share these CDs with a number of our patients already, and the CDs have received fabulous reviews from the children and adults! We strive to provide children and their families with a healing environment that supports each child’s need for self-expression and play and donations such as yours help us to do so. Thank you again for your generosity!”
-Child Life Service
Valentine’s Day is a great time to use music and art to encourage our kids to show their love for family and friends. When children feel confident enough to appreciate diversity, they naturally find ways to accept and include one another.
Here is a FREE download of Friends With You – a song about a friendship that blossoms across cultural and geographic differences.
ACTIVITY IDEAS:
TALK: Use the story in the song to spark a conversation. Share how you met your friends, and how your children feel their friends are the same or different from themselves. What does being a friend feel like?
DOODLE: What does the song inspire you to draw?
Meet talented artist, Haley Gatewood of Stick-Figured Out. She has vowed to draw a doodle a day for the all of 2013! She generously donated this charming image inspired by the song Friends With You:
By Haley Gatewood
Don’t forget some healthy snacks! (As featured on Woman of Many Roles)
“The only way we are ever going to ensure peace on this planet is to adopt the entire world as “our family”. We are going to have to hug them, and kiss them. And dance and play with them. And we are going to have to sit and talk and walk and cry with them. Because when we do, we’ll be able to see that indeed, everyone is beautiful, and we all complement each other beautifully and we would all be poorer without each other.”
Step 1: Download your FREE copy of Disco Donut Robot, along with 19 other FREE kids songs from Make A Discovery
Step 2: Have a Dance Party with your kids! Put up disco lights or a string of Christmas lights. Wear crazy colored clothes or costumes. Toss in some props to make movement to music even more fun, (scarves, hula hoops, sunglasses, etc). Add some percussion in the form of Tupperware and spoons.
Step 3: Play Robot themed games! Here are ideas from KidSpot.com.au:
Robot Freeze Dance: Have kids dance like robots and freeze when the music stops!
Robot Races: Have kids walk like robots (straight legs, stiff arms), and race to the finish line.
Step 4: Be inspired! Make your own Disco Robot using boxes and recycled cans.
Here’s one made by a five year old fan, using blocks, tin foil, M&M’s, and imagination:
“…it’s not just about catchy tunes, easy melodies and words that rhyme with “booger.” It’s about music as communication and play therapy, encouraging teamwork and fostering friendships.”
Mommy Gearest
Just in time for the holidays! A lovely endorsement from Social Rugrats, a networking site that fills a very important niche. Social Rugrats facilitates parent – child social interaction with the understanding that play equates to learning. Visit their site to join now. It’s nationwide!
“Download Marcie Joy’s brilliantly composed debut kids album and picture ebook, Make a Discovery (Songs for Kids). Geared for healthy childhood development, it will have you and your rugrats laughing, dancing, bouncing and learning! “
Social Rugrats
“We are so appreciative of this wonderful donation and it will make the patients hospitalization so much better!”
Child Life Specialist, Entertainment Marketing & Media
Children’s Hospital Trust
There’s a Bug In My Room chart positions on Kobobooks
# 3 in Illustrated eBooks > Read-along Kids
#1 in Entertainment > Theatre > Comedy
#1 in Entertainment > Humour & Comedy > Comedy
Download the song and Picture ebook for FREE at: http://www.noisetrade.com/bug
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Kids Music By Marcie 