Noodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for Kids

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 [email protected]

Today's song combines the power of growth mindset affirmations with the joy music fundamentals! Specifically solfege.  I think you're going to like it.  You'll also enjoy our Hispanic Heritage Month game "Instrument or Food" that celebrates those aspects of Latinx traditions.  And maybe you'll even enjoy a movement game that promotes spatial relations and body awareness.  Maybe not! Only one way to find out...press play :)

Trivia - Instrument or Food - A Hispanic Heritage Month quiz for kids about Latinx music and foods. I say a word, you guess if you'd prefer to eat it or play it. ✪

Call and Response / Echo Song - That's So Mi - Who couldn't use a little music for kids that introduces the concept Sol Sol Mi solfege while having kids recite positive affirmations? It's social emotional learning (SEL) combined with music fundamentals and it's fun to sing too. ✪

Time to Move - Two Part Show - This movement activity for kids develops the dance concepts of spatial relations and body awareness through play. This can be used in classrooms with preschoolers through early elementary students. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for your commute to school.

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

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. 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 [email protected]

Sure, I could use this space here to explain photosynthesis but wouldn't you rather learn about it via clapping? I would. And so would your child. Which is why this episode has a song explaining photosynthesis. And plenty of other educational music for kids too!

Time To Move - Loud is Big, Soft is Small - We kick things off with a creative movement song about musical dynamics. Big and small. Loud and Soft. Silly and fun! ✪

Clap It Back - Leaves - A song about photosynthesis! A rhythm game about life science! A podcast for kids that has it all! ✪

Echo Song - That Spells Friend - A repeat after me song about friendship that not only helps kids identify what a friend is but helps them spell it too. It's a social emotional learning (SEL) song that's both tasty and healthy. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for your ride to school.

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

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. 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 [email protected]

This episode contains gratuitous goofiness and clandestine education. If you're not careful you may find yourself giggling and learning in equal measure. Proceed with caution. Fun children's song that parents will love too lie within. You've been warned.

Echo Song - Muuuuuud - We kick things off with a song about nature that encourages messy play and saying the word "mud" in a funny voice. Recommended for fans of Waldorf schooling and Waldorf salads. ✪

Story Song - Leg Bone - From the archives of legendary kids musician Old Blind Loafy Noodles comes this funny story song. It is not an authoratative song about the human body but it is a silly song for kids that might teach children about song form. ✪

Time To Move - Go Bananas - Preschoolers have long loved this action song, but now with a funky groove it is perfect for early elementary age kids too. The music game encourages kids to make up their own dances so make sure all drinks are secured. ✪

KaraYOUke - A songwriting lesson for kids wearing a karaoke robe. We provide the music and the vocab, you provide the melody and the lyrics. This music game develops melodic and verbal improvisational skills and may turn your child into the next Dolly Parton. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! Making music making friends!

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

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. 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 [email protected]

Music can be used to learn things besides music.  Or so I've been told. Today we test that hypothesis to see if the kids in our midst can retain essential general trivia like the fact that Michael Bolton's birth name was Michael Bolotin.  This could be a breakthrough in kids podcast technology.

Time To Move - Be a butterfly! Be a rug! Be filled with jelly! This brain break style movement activity for kids will not only get your wiggles out, it will put them back in again too. Because you’re gonna need wiggles where we’re going. ✪

Singing Slide - This vocal warmup game for kids is brought to you by slide whistles. Echo the sound the slide whistle makes to warm up your voice before singing the next song. ✪

Echo Song - I Love Fun - This echo song AKA repeat after me song is a fine piece of children’s music. So fine. So fun. It’s about how things are made and how things that are made can facilitate fun. That explanation doesn’t make it sound fun, but it is. Trust. ✪

Clap Facts - Trivia and Clap It Back combine to create Clap Facts, a general knowledge game for children where they clap back statements that are true and freeze after statements that are false. Lava is basically melted rocks: clap it. Dinosaurs lived on Earth with humans: no claps ✪

All these children’s songs and games are great for elementary age kids and younger. Take this kids podcast on the go in your car, airplane and/or dirigible.

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

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. 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 [email protected]

A little extra noodle in our loaf this go round to keep your family singing, rhyming, jamming and goofin’.

Clap it Back - We begin with a rhythm song for kids called Weird Picnic.  This clapping game develops rhythmic awareness in children and has some fun with the very strange eating scenarios families have been experiencing recently. ✪

Rhyme Time - This rhyming game will grow a phonological wunderkind right in your home.  It’s a children’s music activity that parents love too. ✪

Echo Song - Summer Is Hot - This kids song about summer celebrates sun with singing.  Repeat after me styler songs are a great way to help kids learn musical pitch, rhythm and singing confidence. ✪

Kids Talking About Stuff  - Kids have a candid discussion about skin color.  Can it be it was all so simple then? ✪

Finish The Pattern - This music game develops pattern recognition and promotes the art of making music with your mouth be it for beatboxing or voice foley ✪

Jam Along - We end the show with a jam session.  Break out your improvisational drumming chops and play along with this kid-friendly funky groove. ✪

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

We've got new games, we've got old games, but that's not all, we've also got bird calls.  So keep on your all day pajamas, cancel your bear salon appointment and smash that play button because we’ve got children’s songs and games by the bucket full just for you.

Feel The Rhythm - Kids are going to feel the rhythm in their bodies during this creative movement activity. They will need some kind of small object to play the game. It will also help if the enjoy music activities for kids. If they don’t, they should check out This American Life instead. ✪

Echo Song - Exclaim! - Words help share how you feel. But in the event you can’t come up with the right words, then pick up a guitar and scream. This is a song about feelings, a song about emotions and a song about the power of music to help kids express themselves either verbally or sonically. ✪

KaraYOUke - A songwriting activity for kids in a karaoke costume. We provide the music and the prompts, kids write the melody and the lyrics. This music game develops melodic and verbal improvisational skills and may turn your child into the next Burt Bacharach. ✪

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

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. 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 [email protected]

Hey Noodlinos! Have you checked out our new YouTube channel yet?  We're making vids inspired by the music games you know and love.  Check it out here! These videos are great for school brain breaks, car rides and dentist waiting rooms.

But first!!!

Finish The Pattern - In this pattern recognition game, kids learn about the upright bass and how a walking bass line works. It’s a jazz appreciation game that you can play with your face. ✪

Echo Song - There's a Zoo - This song was inspired by a video playdate my child was having with her friend. Her friend said, “want to see the zoo inside my closet?” And the typewriters were immediately off to the races here at Noodle Loaf HQ. It’s a repeat after me style children’s song which helps kids with ear training for pitch and singing confidence. ✪

Jokes - Kids like jokes. Jokes like kids. These are jokes for kids by kids. ✪

Jam Along - We make a rhythm on a tree and invite you to jam along with us. This game encourages nature play, creativity and funkiness. For fans of Waldorf, Montessori and nature schools. BYOSticks. ✪

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

You shared photos of forts with us.  We wrote a rhythm game about fortographs.  Balls in your court Noodlinos!

Lots of fun on this show featuring contributions from special guests Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and Piera Gelardi:

The kids went through a major fort phase during which we coined the term “fortograph.”  You’re welcome English language.  This Clap It Back rhythm game is all about forts, fortographs and developing a strong sense of rhythm ✪

Friend of the show (and family) Piera Gelardi wrote this All Day Pajamas song when her daughter was just a baby.  She was envious of her child’s ability to wear pajamas all day without the judging stares of passersby.  Piera sings lead on this Echo Song so Dan could stay home in his pajamas all day. ✪

Jokes (lolz) ✪

You know Ed Droste from the indie rock mega star band Grizzly Bear, but did you know that Ed is really good at knowing the differences between instruments and animals?  That is why he is the special guest on this edition of Instrument or Animal, a trivia and music appreciation game where we say a word and you have to guess which category it falls under. ✪

✪✪✪NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL!!!✪✪✪

youtube.com/channel/UCmFK2giMSRQA2-dwvZqsT8w/?sub_confirmation=1WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and stickers for a limited time!  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf (A handwritten letter and stickers sent to your house for a limited time only!)

✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.  There's a new backpack design that is STUNNING.

Two truths and a lie. True tooths and a fly.  Few sleuths in a sty etc. etc.  Red Herrings abound in this early April release.  Catch them, or be caught!

The cool thing about you is that you can pretty much make a song up about anything anytime.  This game called KaraYOUke gives you ample opportunity to do that and develop your improvisation abilities in the process. ✪

A hip-hop Echo Song about forts.  Everyone can pretty much stop writing songs now. ✪

I take you on an Audio Walk through a snowy forest.  Great for close listening and building aural awareness.  And just being in tune with nature which is a great tune to be in. ✪

Take the skills you’ve learned so far and let em loose during a round of Jam Along, an improvisational rhythm game for all. ✪

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and stickers for a limited time!  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf (A handwritten letter and stickers sent to your house for a limited time only!)

✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.  There's a new backpack design that is STUNNING.