April Song Ideas

Check out these simple song ideas for your spring music classes or music therapy sessions!! In addition to just being ENGAGING songs KIDS LOVE, they incorporate music, movement, instrument play, sensory play, and visuals to address reading, language, science, math and social emotional learning goals!

🌷 Help to Grow

• Choose instruments to represent each of the 4 things a plant needs to grow! i.e. soil - triangle (for a shovel sound!); Water - rainstick; Sun - glockenspiel!; Air - slide whistle or harmonica!

• Choose movements! I.e. soil - digging motion; water - splashing motion; sun - arms overhead forming a circle; air - breathe in - hands up to shoulders, create out - hands back down

• Make it sensory!! Present a clear bin, as you go, help the kids add seeds, scoops of soil, water (spray bottle!), sun (flashlight!) and air (breathe on the seed!)

• OR! grab the printables or google slides from the Spring Bundle for a reading + language + matching song!

🌷 Ten Little Blossoms

• Find 10 fake flowers to count as you sing!

• Create a sensory bin flower garden with “dirt” (or black beans!), fake flowers, seeds, mini flower pots, scoops, etc.!

• OR! grab the printable or google slides from the Spring Bundle to practice counting

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🌷Daisy, Daisy, What Do You See?

• Find coordinating colored instruments - use what you have!! - or items to represent each object and play along as you sing (white daisy (white frame drum), grey bunny (silver jingle stick or bells!); green cabbage (green clatterpillar), blue eggs (blue shaker), yellow chick (yellow boom whacker) - etc!!

• OR! grab the printable book from the Spring Bundle to practice reading, language and color identification!

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Find all 3 songs (and more!) on my album Help to Grow: Spring Songs for Kids! Just search "Patina Jackson" wherever you listen to music, or follow these links! A save, follow or playlist add would mean the world to me as a small business owner!

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And for allll the visuals (printables + google slides versions!) chord sheets, ideas, etc. for these 3 songs (+ 22 more spring songs for kids!), check out my Spring Bundle!

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  Spring song bundle 5 themed plans

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  Spring bundle - 25 songs + visuals

Check out the Spring Bundle here! And follow @musictherapyjoy on social for more songs and ideas to support kiddos as they play, learn and grow! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Spring Bundle

Spring Album

Happy Spring!

Spread JOY!

<3, Patina Joy