Sprouting Melodies Family Sprouts Framework

Five words to describe the music experiences in Family Sprouts: Support, Joyful, Individuality, Cooperation, and Connections.

Plan for songs and music experiences to use in Family Sprouts:

Gathering/Greeting Song
“Come and Join the Circle:” Patting knees, clapping hands, or playing drums
“Come on Let’s Make Some Music” Clap, pat, stamp, etc… Have older children recommend movements. Children can have solos.
Different aged children can move differently.

Bonding Songs
“Row It Faster”: Older Children can be sitting up and facing outwards while babies lie on parents’ lap. Also, older children
can stand in the middle holding hands in the beginning and then for the faster part jump up and down on the waves.

Songs About Me
“All of This is Me”: accompanied with bells playing open 5th patting different body parts. Warm timbre is used for very
young infants to begin to recognize their mother. Older children helps to develop sense of self and others.

Instrument Song
” I Like This Song” Work on pitch matching. Use multiple types of instruments such as drums, maracas, and finger cymbals.
Older children can have opportunity for solos.

Movement Song
“I Can Move Around” with maracas. Change lyrics to reflect movement of children. Can help parents adjust movement of
children based on age ie. infant vs toddler. Macro beat vs. microbeat. Add musical surprises by stopping music after
each ‘la’ phrase and wait for all children to stop and look before continuing.

Goodbye Song
“It’s Time to Sing Goodbye”
“Music Time is Over”

Five words to describe Family Sprouts’s musical experiences include Busy, Helping, sharing, connections, support, and joyfulness.

Plans and experiences I might use in a Family Sprouts class:

Gathering/Greeting Song: “Come On Let’s Make Some Music” to encourage movement and togetherness.
Bonding Songs: “I Like to Lick the Ice Cream” This song would be beneficial for older children as they can practice sequencing and the younger children can participate in the movements. The children can do the actions together or with the parent.
Songs About Me: “Can You See Me?” For older children, it would be a great song for a call and response. For younger children, this song would be great for beginning to identify different parts of their bodies.
Instrument Song: “Music is the Way” can facilitate communication between family members and siblings.
Movement Song: “Can You Follow?” will provide structure for the little ones and provides the older siblings a chance to demonstrate how they want to move and then everyone follows.
Goodbye Song: “Music Time is Over”

Busy, Connecting, Individual, Cooperating, Helping
Create a plan for songs and music experiences to use in Family Sprouts

Gather: Come On Let’s Make Some Music
Bonding: I Like to Lick the Ice Cream
Songs About Me: Watch Me Go
Instruments: Dancing in the Middle
Movement: I Really Gotta Jump
Cool down/Goodbye: My thank you and goodbye song

Remember to save all of the plans that you have created throughout the training so you have those resources for the future!

1. Cooperation, Busy, Support, Helping, Joyful

2. Hey Everybody, Wiggly Jiggly Car, Can You See Me?, I Like This Song, Will You Come, It’s Time to Say Goodbye