Children

Friday Favorites: {Let’s Go Fishing!}

Today’s Friday favorite is an activity that I adapted from my former (awesome) internship supervisor Julia Lundquist. Almost every child that I work with adores this […]

Friday Favorites {Peek-a-boo, Where are the froggies?}

Image credit One of the first mirroring activities that infants learn is “Peek-a-boo”. It’s a guaranteed way to bring a smile to a kid’s face, and […]

Friday Favorites: {Hurry, Hurry Drive the Firetruck!}

Image Credit I have been using “Hurry, Hurry Drive the Firetruck” this week during Musical Playground in ECSE classrooms to work on goals of turn taking, […]

Friday Favorites: {Aiken Drum, The Man on the Moon!}

Image Credit One of our favorite songs to work on pre-reading/pre-writing skills is a spin off of the old Scottish folk song “Aiken Drum”. In the […]

Monday Music & Movement: {It’s a Beautiful Day}

Image Credit Welcome to another Monday Music & Movement! Today’s song is one that Lyndie, our other music therapist, taught me from a practicum and a […]

Monday Music & Movement: {Executive Functioning and Functional Life Skills}

Image Credit Since the MN Music Therapy conference last weekend, I’ve had brains on the mind (pardon the pun!). Using music to engage all areas of […]

Monday Music & Movement: {Oh Mr. Sun}

Image Credit I don’t know what the weather is like where you live…but in MN we have had sleet, thundersnow, and rain for the last week […]

Monday Music & Movement: {Old Dog Blue}

Image Via Pretty much every little one I know likes puppies. Today’s therapeutic music intervention uses the first verse of the traditional “Old Blue” to work […]