Starting with a Song! Some Ideas to try at home whilst we are not able to meet face to face.
Please send me any ideas, suggestions or favourites to include for next time!
Spring
Music
Songs & chants
Here Flies a Bluebird
Bluebell Song
There's A Worm At The Bottom Of My Garden
Cuckoo
Traditional
Lavenders Blue
Ring A Roses
Music
Musical play
Pretending to be musical birds, explore the different sounds and whistles your voices can make.
Can you find any other bird-like sounds around the house? Blow over filled bottles, whistles, ocarinas, recorders.
Make
Make and decorate a bird to use as a song prop.
Create a nature print using flowers and ferns.
Make your own fairy soup or perfume.
Create flower patterns and mandalas.
Lots of ideas and templates on
Rachel’s Pinterest Early Years board
Outdoors
Go on a listening walk. See how many birds you can hear. Can you copy their song?
What else can you hear? You could experiment by recording these sounds using the great sound app Keezy
Practice some Spring yoga outside.
See Rachel’s Pinterest board for more details.
Focus
Nature I-Spy tray!
Collect items from around the garden to really inspect together. Focus on exploring colour, texture, naming items, counting petals.
“I-Spy something yellow”
“I-Spy bark”
“I-Spy fern leaves”
“I-Spy a flower with four petals”
Play at removing one object and notice which one is no longer there.
Here Flies A Bluebird
A dancing game
(Child flies around)
Here flies a bluebird
In through my window
Hey diddle dum a day, day, day
(Child chooses a dancing partner)
Take a little partner,
Hop in my garden
Hey diddle dum a day, day, day
Bluebell Song
Some bells ring-a-ling
Some bells dong
But I don’t make a sound,
Shhh!
Some bells swing-a-ling
Way up high
But I stay on the ground
Every year I come again
With my leaves as well
I grow up and hang my head
I am a bluebell
Lavenders Blue
Lavender’s blue, Dilly diilly,
Lavender’s green,
When I am king, Dilly dilly,
You shall be queen.
Call up your men, Dilly dilly,
Set them to work,
Some to the plow, Dilly dilly,
Some to the cart.
Some to make hay, Dilly dilly,
Some to cut corn,
While you and I, Dilly dilly,
Keep ourselves warm.
Lavender’s green, Dilly dilly,
Lavender’s blue,
If you love me, Dilly dilly,
I will love you.
There’s A Worm At The Bottom Of The Garden
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden,
And his name is wiggly woo.
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden,
And all that he can do,
Is wiggle all night And wiggle all day
The people ‘round here
They all do say
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden,
And his name is wiggly
wig, wig, wiggly wig,
wig wiggly woo!
The Cuckoo
The month of April’s here,
The Cuckoo now has sung.
Cuckoo, cuckoo,
The cuckoo now has sung
