Every Wednesday, we either have Lego Club or Craft Club. On those rare occasions that there is a 5th Wednesday in the month - we do a Musical Storytime. This is so that we can keep Lego and Craft on schedule.
This also means that I really have to bring it for Musical Storytime because Lego and Crafts are so hands on and exciting.
I did my first Musical Storytime as more of a singalong. Considering everyone is singing "Let It Go" and "Happy" lately, I jumped on the band wagon. But I wanted to make sure that everyone sang with me. Musical Storytime is really fun...as long as I'm not the only one singing. And since I was in the room that has the projector, I put together a PowerPoint slideshow and blam! Singalong Storytime.
It was 40 minutes of sweaty insane fun.
And I was exhausted after. I felt like I'd just lead a Zumba class for kids. As they were all leaving, the moms and caregivers were asking if we were doing it again next Wednesday and how often do we do this? and Can we have this instead of Crafts and Legos? It was hard to smile at them and say, "Oh the next one is in October," when really, I just wanted to die on the carpet for a moment.
Our Set List:
Sunshine On My Shoulders
Puff the Magic Dragon
What Does the Fox Say?
Play with musical instruments
Happy
Sing
Let It Go
Gitchee Gitchee Goo
The Play with musical instruments was so much fun. I let them choose their instruments and gave them a little time to play with them. Then, we played Echo. This is where I would hit out a beat and they would copy it. This turned into cacophony after a while, but that was just fine. Then we played "Conductor." I had a long skinny stick and they would play fast or slow depending on how fast or slow I moved my stick. Both games were well received.
For "Happy" I handed out some scarves and we flung them and waved them and played with them all over. We kept the scarves and brought them back out for "Let It Go." Honestly, you can never go wrong with scarves.
For Sing, we played Cooperative Musical Mats. This is a lot like Musical Chairs...but no one is eliminated and we used mats. We started with 6 mats on the floor and when the music stopped, everyone had to put a foot on a mat. Then I took one mat away and we continued. When we got down to the 1 remaining mat, it was so much fun, the kids were helping adults make sure they got their foot on, and there was a baby being passed around to get her foot on the mat. 24 people trying to get their foot on a mat was a great time. And since this was Storytime, most of the people participating didn't know each other. We had a blast. This might have been the best part of storytime.
I threw in "Gitchee Gitchee Goo" even though I knew that people wouldn't know the song. It's from the cartoon Phineas and Ferb and is really popular in our house. My 6 year old boy often wanders around singing Gitchee Gitchee Goo, and it's such a fun song that I couldn't resist finishing with it.
This storytime was a huge hit, and I'm glad we didn't have our normally large crowd for it so that everyone could spread out and dance.
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