Working Together

Anyone cane name a problem, but can you name a solution? Anyone can make a doodle, but can you make up a song about yours? Press play and find out!

Our Echo Song this week is We Can Fix It, a song that makes the case for problem solving. It's a fabulous life skill with a catchy hook. Have fun singing along to this groovy song! ✪

Take out your pencils because we've got a Guided Doodle! You won't know what it is you are drawing. You may never know. But I do and more importantly, fun will be had. ✪

Now that your doodle is drawn, it is time to improvise a song about the characters you just drew. I give you prompts and you sing the answers. It's equal parts simple and ridiculous and that's why we call it KaraYOUke. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids that sneaks in counting skills.

✪✪✪ Echo Songs, Vol. 2 OUT NOW!: https://noodleloaf.bandcamp.com/album/echo-songs-vol-2 ✪✪✪

✪✪✪ I have written three pictures books celebrating families. They make great gifts :) https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-dan-saks ✪✪✪

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out, handwritten letter and phone jingle! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: https://noodleloaf.com/choir

Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Whippledooders

Kids will dig this play based rhyme infused educational music filled podcast as much as you enjoyed this keyword laden introductory sentence.

This episode begins with a Rhyme Time game about kindness. Can you figure out what action each kindness verb could lead to? i.e. Make, Send, Offer? I love when phonological exercises extend into making the world a nicer place. ✪

This week's Echo Song is the 4th installment of our annual homage to the art of the homemade costume, "I Made a Costume pt.4." "A big cardboard box / wrapped around me / two tiny hats / I'm a battery." Happy Halloween! ✪

And we close the episode with a Guided Doodle where listeners are invited to participate in drawing a mystery drawing. You will need something with which to draw and something on which to draw upon. Like pencil and paper for example. Share your drawings by tagging @noodleloafshow wherever you like to tag stuff. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids that occasionally involves drawing pictures.

✪✪✪ I have written three pictures books celebrating families. They make great gifts :) https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-dan-saks ✪✪✪

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out, handwritten letter and phone jingle! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: http://noodleloaf.com/choir

Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Feeling For Mangoes

Press play and brace yourself for some music games, a song about fruits and April Fools jokes aplenty. We'll play a drawing game called Guided Doodling where you will doodle a mystery drawing based on the narrated instructions. Will it be an octopus? Probably not, but maybe? A little more details on the various music activities beloooooow:

Finish The Pattern - Our pattern recognition game teams up with solfege for some real live music game fun. Fair warning, there are animal sounds and some amateur beatboxing. ✪

Echo Song - Mango Season - Our repeat after me style sing along song is all about some of our favorite fruits! Mangoes, watermelons and strawberries. A fun fact about this upbeat children's song is that you can insert whatever your favorite fruits or veggies are. If you love kohlrabi then you would just sing "Wake Me Up When Its Kohlrabi Season." This is a no judgement zone. You do you. ✪

Guided Doodle - Get yourself a pencil and paper, we are going to draw together. Noodle Loaf provides the classical music of Vivaldi and some instructions on how to draw a mystery drawing. You do your best to draw what we describe. There's a good chance you will draw something other than what we are imagining, but that's ok. The important thing is we are hanging out, listening to calm music and drawing together. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids you can listen to in your sleep. April Fools! Awake is better.

✪✪✪ FAMILIES CAN - an Amazon Best Book of the Month - by Dan Saks and Brooke Smart available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

http://tinyurl.com/familiescan

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out and a handwritten letter! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com. ✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: http://noodleloaf.com/choir Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Like an Overjoyed Seal

To play this music activity for kids filled podcast you will need a body, a head, paper and crayons or something like crayons, like pencils.  And some time.  And a desire to have fun.  That's more or less it.  You'll see.

Dance Dance Noodleution - A fun movement song designed to get your kids up and dancing. If only music for kids was always this goofy and funky..ahem....goofunky. This creative movement activity teachers body isolation and general body awareness and is great to use a brain break in classroom. Try it, you'll see. ✪

Echo Song - I Made a Costume pt. 3 - Our 3rd edition of our song about Halloween for kids once again focuses on the art of the homemade costume. Singalong as we list some homemade costume ideas that may or may not actually make sense like a water fountain and a box of crayons. What other kids podcast provides music education and Halloween costume ideas. Not The Daily with Michael Barbaro. You'll see. ✪

Floor Banana - A very short song about floor bananas. I don't want to eat them. You'll see. ✪

Guided Doodle ft. Mozart - Arts and crafts meets music appreciation in this drawing activity for kids. Grab a pencil and paper and then listen to the instructions to create your own mystery drawing. You won't know what it is you are drawing, but that's the fun. Share your doodle on Instagram by tagging @noodleloafshow so we can see if they came out the same or not. You'll see. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson you can have during breakfast.

✪✪✪ FAMILIES BELONG - the new board book from Dan Saks available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Please consider becoming a patron if Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your home. Membership starts at $3:  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf 

✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.  

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir?
The echo song and instructions are here:
http://noodleloaf.com/choir
Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Knobs and Faders

Hey, how's it going?  What's new?  All is great you say?  That's great to hear.  Nothing to report on our end.  Just some extra down time to fill with singing and dancing and drawing and having fun.  Let's do those things together, ok?  Great, bye!

Who doesn’t love a good rhyme? Barn / Yarn. Isn’t that fun?! Rhyme Time is our phonological awareness building party game. Highly recommended for fans of fun times. ✪

Knobs and faders keep you in control and so do salad bars. Cause you can take whatever you want. No onions? No problem. Extra feta? The more the betta. This Echo Song celebrates healthy eating and empowerment through choice. It also helps kids learn to sing. ✪

Kids Talking About Stuff is just that ✪

For the Guided Doodle grab a pencil and paper and then follow the instructions to draw a mystery drawing. This one develops listening skills, music appreciation and a sense of wonder. ✪

A Little Stringed to Stringiest

Ethiopia set the world record for most trees planted on one day and you've cued up the latest episode of Noodle Loaf, so one could say you and Ethiopia are both making good choices!

Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪

Narwhals Are Real (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Stump A Grown Up (Music Appreciation) ✪

Guided Doodle (Music Appreciation / Listening Skills) ✪

More Songs About Rhyming and Food

Put on your rhyming hat, your singing pants and your drawing cummerbund because today's show has those things inside of it.  We have a splendid variety of music and creativity based activities for you and your family to enjoy together.  What will the mystery drawing be?  What food is typically served with Akara? What rhymes with Pangolin?  These questions and more may or may not be answered within!

Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪

Go Together (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪

Guided Doodle (Listening Skills / Music Appreciation) ✪

Howdjadoo

Howji hijie heejie hojie? I dooji fineji, thanks. Especially since we get to play more fun music games together this week!

Pro tip: Have something to write with/on handy for this week's #GuidedDoodle, then share your drawing with us on the social media platform of your choosing.  Tag @NoodleLoafShow and let us know what you drew.  We'll shout you out in a future episodeji!

Time To Move (Bubble Bubble Pop - Action Song) ✪
I Say Hello (Echo Song) ✪
Guided Doodle (Listening Skills / Music Appreciation) ✪

Tickle Me Yeezy

Happy Summer Noodle Loafers! We missed you, so here's a bonus ep to get your summer road trips off on the right tire. Listen closely for your chance to win a Noodle Loaf t-shirt and/or a special recording of your child singing our new Echo Song.  Too good!

Finish The Pattern ✪
Echo Song (Now That We Know) How To Add Your Voice ✪
Guided Doodle ✪
Jam Along ✪