Christmas time

Christmas is on the way and we will be singing festive tunes.  I will be putting up lyrics and suggestions for songs on the website, so have a look and keep up with our weekly themes.

Halloween Week

Fancy Dress Next Week, 

October 30th

Cancellation for today.

Unfortunately, my son is ill today and so I will not be able to come in for the session.  We will be up and running next week.

Make sure you do a bit of singing today.

Skeleton Dance

Our next song will be the skeleton dance and we will sing it with the music because it makes it more fun.

I love this song and have been waiting to teach it for awhile.

Here is the youtube video.



The Super Simple Learning website is really awesome and I use it sometimes for learning tunes to some of the songs.  It also has loads of Halloween and Christmas songs.

There is a lot of repetition in this song, which makes it easy to learn even though it seems long.


Here are the words:

♫ Dem bones, dem bones, dem dancing bones. [Skeleton dance.]
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dancing bones. [Skeleton dance. Move to the right.]
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dancing bones. [Skeleton dance. Move to the left.]
Doin' the skeleton dance. [Skeleton dance.]

The foot bone's connected to the leg bone. [Point to your foot, then to your lower leg.]
The leg bone's connected to the knee bone. [Point to your lower leg, then your knee.]
The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone. [Point to your knee, then your thigh.]
Doin' the skeleton dance.

The thigh bone's connected to the hip bone. [Point to your thigh, then your hip.]
The hip bone's connected to the backbone. [Point to your hip, then your back.]
The backbone's connected to the neck bone. [Point to your back, then your neck.]
Doin' the skeleton dance.

Shake your hands to the left.
Shake your hands to the right.
Put your hands in the air.
Put your hands out of sight. [Put your hands behind your back.]

Shake your hands to the left.
Shake your hands to the right.
Put your hands in the air.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle,
wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle,
wiggle, wiggle...wiggle your knees. [Wiggle your whole body, moving your hands all the way down your body until they reach your knees.]

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dancing bones.
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dancing bones.
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dancing bones.
Doin' the skeleton dance. ♫

(taken from http://supersimplelearning.com

See you next week,

Halloween Songs

Another great turn out today, 43 children!  Amazing!

Suprisingly enough, Halloween is coming soon, one of my favourite holidays.  I even put up a tree.  As promised, we will be singing some Halloween songs.

Our first one is The Witch's Song.  It is sung to the tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep, and the best part is that there are hand movements.

Here are the words and movements:

Witch's cauldron (cup hands into a bowl)
Witch's hat, (make a triangle with hands over head)
Witch's broom stick, ("jazz hands")
Witch's cat (make whiskers at nose)

Fly over here and fly over there.(sway to left and sway to right)
BANG, CRASH, ALAZAM! (bang instruments or clap hands)
Now you disappear. (cover face with hands)

Witch's spider (make a spider with fingers)
Crawling up a log (crawl fingers up arm)
Witch's spell book, (open hands like a book)
Witch's frog. (get down like a frog)

Jump over here and jump over there. (jump to left and right)
BANG, CRASH, ALAZAM! (bang instruments or clap hands)
Now you disappear. (cover face with hands)

From- Music Express EYFS , 2  ed.2012 (A&C Black Publishers)

Wow, What a turn out!

Today we had 41 children at Mini Music Makers!  I am so happy to see returning music makers as well as welcome the new children and I hope that everyone will make Mini Music Makers a part of their weekly routine.

Today we focused on noises our body makes.  We discovered different noises our hands, feet, mouth and voice make.  We had an excellent round of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.  We also sang the first five versus of This Old Man.

These activities helped us to be creative, get comfortable with our bodies and helped to discover rhythm through touch.


I hope to see everyone again next week.  These big turn outs will help the community realize that we need more Music and Movement sessions in our community.

Please visit our Facebook page at Mini Music Makers Shipley

Also a small reminder to people who took a form for the free session at Yorkshire Music Scool to return their forms next week, as the session will be Tuesday September 24th at 10:00.  If you cannot make that session, please leave you information so that I can contact you when we have another session.

School Begins

The start of September means new beginnings and endings.  It is the end of Summer and the Summer holidays and many of my Mini Music Makers are entering into nursery school next week.  It is an incredibly exciting time.  But it is also a sad time because some of my Mini Music Makers will no longer be able to attend Mini Music Makers any more.

I will miss the children who will be leaving and I hope that they come to visit me during their holidays.  I will be posting new classes as they come on this site and on Little Sprout's Music Studio. I hope that they continue on their musical journey as music is an important aspect to life's many roads.

On the other side, Mini Music Makers tends to receive many new children to our troupe in September, and it is with great enthusiasm that I welcome all new comers and that I hope they enjoy our session.

Thanks everybody,

Ms Jess