Inspiring, participatory, life-affirming, heart-warming songs for children.
Videos. Lyrics. Chords. Notation.
Created with love by Dr Liam Maloy, singer & songwriter of Johnny & the Raindrops.
Author of book on music for children 'Spinning the Child: Musical Constructions of Childhood through Records, Radio and Television' .
International award-nominated songs used in schools in USA, UK & around the world.
RSC Associate Artist (Music) - Shakespeare-through-music specialist.
Inspiring, participatory, life-affirming, heart-warming songs for children.
Videos. Lyrics. Chords. Notation.
Created with love by Dr Liam Maloy, singer & songwriter of Johnny & the Raindrops.
Author of book on music for children 'Spinning the Child: Musical Constructions of Childhood through Records, Radio and Television' .
International award-nominated songs used in schools in USA, UK & around the world.
RSC Associate Artist (Music) - Shakespeare-through-music specialist.
Album of sixteen songs for teachers covering many curriculum-linked themes for a range of age groups. Comes bundled with links to videos. Lyrics are included in most of the videos. Some of the songs have their own TES resource pages where you can get lyrics, chord sheets, sheet music, backing track versions and more.
1. You can count on me: A danceable tune that teaches counting in a number of languages.
2. What’s the time: Teaches quarter past, half past quarter yo and o’clock.
3. Recycling: A fun rockin’ song that encourages children to ‘turn old things into new things’.
4. Animals in danger: An upbeat yet sensitive song about endangered animals.
5. No bees. No people: A danceable song about the value of bees.
6. Goodbye Mr Panda: Another endangered animals songs, this time for younger children.
7. Tidy up: A danceable song. Good for getting younger children to clear up.
8. Time to rhyme: A lively song to explain rhyme.
9. Joey Chrome: Learn about each of the eight planets with this friendly alien.
10. To make a rainbow: Learn the colours, plus how rainbows are made.
11. Everybody’s body: An action song for younger children. Promotes differentiation of body image.
12. Get healthy. Get happy: Actions. Movement. Dancing. Healthy.
13. Get you head in a book: Encourages children to read.
14. Let’s make a band: Good for getting children to accompany on tambourines, shakers, and singing.
15. Smile: A relaxing ‘time-out’ song to promote smiling.
16. Shine a light: A Christmas song all about the power of light in the darkness of winter.
Fun, lively, interactive song to learn the parts of the body. Knees! Cheeks! Chin! Tummy! Head! Do the actions. Sing along!
Words and chords included as separate documents.
A great song to get children to think about the issues of endangered animals. Simple enough for them to sing along, especially on the chorus. Upbeat and lively. Words, chords and some images included on the pdf sheet.
Enjoy this lovely song for children all about NATURE!
It’s got lots of cute animals in the video.
The simple words are included in this lyric video.
Teachers - you might be interested in how I used AI (for the first time!) to write the words. I’m a life-long songwriter, long-time music lecturer and now senior lecturer in Education so I like to experiment and reflect. You can read what I wrote about how this song came together on my Spinning the Child blog site.