Learn a song, or two. Kids will love you for it. I find myself singing with kids everywhere – even ones I don’t know, and I find that a little singing always, always brightens my day.<\/p>\n
We’re beginning the summer cycle of our Waldorf in the Woods playgroup next week. We’re going strong – the group is still full of great, committed moms, and more families being added to the waiting list all the time!
\nOur craft this time will be wet-on-wet watercolor painting (every time) and our story will be the classic tale of The Turnip, which I will post shortly.
\nHere are our new songs and handplays. The other songs, the ones we use every time have been posted previously and can be found on womantalk.org by searching “waldorf songs.” If there is not a video with music above the words, then the words are simply spoken.
\nThis cycle all songs and handplays are from Betty Jones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s A Child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Seasonal Treasury, an excellent resource.<\/p>\n
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Birthday Song
\nOh welcome welcome lovely day.
\nWith sunshine bright and flowers gay.
\nWith painted birds that sing their song
\nAnd make me kind and good and strong.<\/p>\n
[We will not be singing the first birthday stanza, but these are the words for your reference:
\nIn heaven shines a golden star.
\nAn angel led me from afar.
\nFrom heaven high unto the earth
\nAnd brought me to my house of birth.]<\/p>\n
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\nMorning Song
\nGood morning dear earth. (Crouch, touch ground)
\nGood morning dear sun. (Rise and extend arms to sky)
\nGood morning dear rocks and the flowers every one. (Crouch and knock fists on ground, then wave fingers and sway hands for flowers)
\nGood morning dear beasts. (Remain crouching, put hands on head for horns)
\nAnd the birds in the trees. (Flap arms while rising to stand)
\nGood morning to you and good morning to me. (Bow to others twice, then stand upright and cross arms over chest.)<\/p>\n
Bubbles
\nBubbles are a lovely thing to blow (Make a bubble with forefingers and thumbs)
\nOn a hot, dry summer day,
\nBig and small, they rise and fall
\nAnd POP! Along the way (Clap for the pop)
\nSparkling crystal rainbows (Sweep arms overhead from one side to another)
\nIn the sunshine bright, (Make sun with circled arms above)
\nHow I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to be a bubble (Make bubble with forefingers and thumbs)
\nAnd sail into the night.<\/p>\n
Ten Fingers
\nI have ten little fingers (Stretch hands out front)
\nAnd they all belong to me, (Point to self with both thumbs)
\nI can make them do things, (Rub hands together)
\nWould you like to see? (Open hands, palms up.)
\nI can shut them up tight, (Make fists)
\nOr I can make them wide, (Extend fingers)
\nI can put them together, (Clasp hands, fingers intertwined)
\nOr make them all hide, (Put hands behind back)
\nI can make them jump high, (Hold hands high)
\nI can make them jump low (Place hands on floor)
\nI can fold them quietly, (Fold hands together)
\nAnd hold them just so.<\/p>\n
Flower Elves
\nPretty flower elves are we,
\nDancing to and fro,
\nPeeping out from \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcneath our buds
\nAs round and round we go (Children skip or gallop in circle waving colored veils)<\/p>\n
Sleepy, sleepy snails are we
\nOur steps are long and slow.
\nWe drag our feet along the ground
\nAs round and round we go. (Children take big slow steps around a circle.)<\/p>\n
Butterflies from the air are we
\nOur wings are fairy light
\nWe dance before the king and queen
\nUpon the flowers bright (Children skip around a circle while flapping their arms)<\/p>\n
Funny little gnomes are we,
\nOur beards are long and white,
\nTowards the rocks our footsteps turn
\nTo tap from morn \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctil night. (Children trudge, bent over, around in circle, while hammering fist on fist)<\/p>\n
A long green snake in the grass are we
\nOur tail is far away.
\nWe wriggle and wriggle and twist and turn
\nAs in and out we sway. (Children put together outstretched arms and hands and act out described movements, while walking around in circle.)<\/p>\n
Fish Alive
\nOne, two, three, four, five, (Make fist, unfurl one finger at a time)
\nOnce I caught a fish alive! (Wiggle all fingers)
\nSix, seven, eight, nine, ten, (Bow a finger for each number spoken)
\nThen I let it go again! (Wiggle fingers, then hide hand behind back)
\nWhy did I let it go? (Shrug shoulders)
\nBecause it bit my fingers so! (Point right index finger and pretend to nip it)
\nWhich finger did it bite? (Close fist)
\nThis finger on the right. (Hold on right index finger and wiggle it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Learn a song, or two. Kids will love you for it. I find myself singing with kids everywhere – even ones I don’t know, and I find that a little singing always, always brightens my day. We’re beginning the summer … Continue reading