Teaching Art and Music Through Nursery Rhymes Use traditional nursery rhymes as springboards for standards-based lessons. Watch students learn art and music...and enjoy every minute of it!

Great Ideas:

Musical Shakers
...Create & dance. Submitted by: Ann Newton

Painting with Music
...Enhancing self-expression, exploring use of colors and developing memory recall. Submitted by: Marianne Sy-Quimsiam.

Rhythm, Sounds and Music
...Training the ear.

Sing Along Songs:

Cullen says:

"Singing songs with your child is wonderful for many reasons. The most important reason is that singing is it is fun and children love to sing. Songs are great for increasing vocabulary and pronunciation. Using hand and body movements with songs and rhymes helps preschoolers learn to control their bodies. There is even research that has shown that children who are actively involved in music do better in reading and math when they start school, are better able to focus and control their bodies, play better with others and have higher self-esteem. So sing a song now!"

• Dinosaur Hokey Pokey video
• Five Little Ducks video
• Hi There video
• If You're Happy and You Know It video
• I'm a Little Teapot video
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm video
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star video
• Two Little Blackbirds video
• The Wheels on the Bus video