Playing simple, physical music online games with your baby can be great fun for both of you and can help the development of musical skills, and understanding speech patterns. It can also introduce movement skills. As your baby grows the way that you play these games can change - and from about six months, when they are generally able to sit up by themselves, the possibilities for musical games increase. Don’t worry if you think you can’t sing. Your baby won’t judge you by the calibre of your voice. Your voice may be better than you think it is, and your child is likely to think it is the best voice in the world!
MUSICAL GAMES TO PLAY
Tip Toe Tap
This is a simple activity that you can play with your baby from birth, and can help them ‘feel’ a simple rhythm
Lie your baby safely on their back
Tap the bottom of your baby’s feet gently in time (and in
turn) to a song that you are singing for example Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star
Bumps-a-Daisy
This is an activity that you could do with your child from about six months, when they have a bit more strength to support themselves.
Sit down and put your baby on your knees, legs together, facing you.
Humpty Dumpty is a good song to sing for this type of activity, especially as at about 10 or 11 months they may begin to expect or anticipate the ’surprise’ in the song which adds to their excitement of the play:
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
(bounce baby gently on words ‘Humpty’, ‘Dumpty’, ’sat’ and ‘wall’)
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
(bounce child on Humpty Dumpty and on the word ‘fall’, open your legs and, keeping careful hold of baby, dip baby down between legs about five inches)
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
(bring baby up into the air in line with your face)
Couldn’t get Humpty together again
(bounce baby on knees on ‘Couldn’t', ‘Humpty’, ‘Together’ and ‘Again’)
Touchy-Feely Games Songs
What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor!
At the end you can push your baby high into the air
The Grand Old Duke Of York Sit your baby on your knee and march with his or her legs following the instructions in the song with a lovely big movement for the final word :”Down!”
Heads & Shoulders, Knees & Toes
A good one for when your baby is on the changing mat, touching and with a big clap at the end
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Take your baby in your arms to introduce lots of different movements
Make Up Your Own
…and do the movements to go with it:-
This is the way we:
Jump up and down
Sway to and fro
Wriggle about
Give a hug
Give a kiss
All fall down!
More Ideas
Sway and dance with your baby in your arms - maybe put on some waltz music and pretend to waltz with baby, it does not matter if you don’t know how to dance, it should be fun for the both of you
When you are listening to music with a baby on your lap it’s important to move
Young babies love it when you clap while you sing, and as they grow older they may start to imitate your clapping actions
Tickling your baby while singing to them can also be fun
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Learn all about barre chords and how they are played with this video tutorial. What exactly are barre chords and what makes them so interesting? They are simplistic chords that can be shifted anywhere up and down the neck while retaining the same shape. This allows you to hold the same shape with your hand while moving up and down the neck to play different chords. No need to change finger positions!
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I just found a wonderful new website with free downloadable LDS music. Craig Petrie creates beautiful arrangements of familiar hymns for choirs, and the piano part is really fun to play and just as pretty. Our choir is working on “Did You Think to Pray,” and I just love it! Check out his site:
I found a new piano site that I really like. Check out http://www.take-a-piano-sheet-music-break.com for a collection of great, free sheet music. I really like this site because it’s layout is clean and organized. It has a nice collection of classical, jazz and pop music, too.
I printed off the song “Only Hope” from the movie A Walk to Remember from this site. If you’d like your own copy, click on the above link. On the left side of the homepage, click “Free Popular” inside the black box. Scroll down to “Mandy Moore,” and you’ll see two versions of the song. The first one is simplified, but both versions are beautiful. They’re PDF files, so just save them to your computer, print off, and play!
Have fun looking around their site. You’ll find songs from Billy Joel, Coldplay, Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, and many more. Happy playing!
*I added the link for the Take a Piano Sheet Music Break site to the right hand sidebar of this blog, so you can easily access it another time.