Bear Paw Creek Meets Music Therapy Connections 2012 was an exciting year for Bear Paw Creek. It started with taking Kat Fulton’s course Online Zen on building a website with wordpress. Learning how to build and maintain a website myself, opened up the door to […]
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Welcoming Spring with Music and Movement Activities As of March 19, it’s officially spring! I know around some parts of the USA, old man winter has shown up again, but here in Southwest Missouri, we have been enjoying beautiful weather. Julie of Serenade Designs sent
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The Airplane Song: Using Props to Connect with Children The longer I have worked as a music therapist, especially in the early childhood setting, the more I appreciate the value of movement props like those created by Bear Paw Creek! I feel like they have
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St. Patrick’s Day Music and Movement Inspiration For the last month I have been on the hunt for St. Patrick’s Day fabric. For awhile I thought I was hunting the elusive four leaf clover, or even worse that rascally leprechaun! I prevailed and finally found
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Stretchy Band “Row Row Row Your Boat” “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” must be one of the first musical movement songs I learned as a child. This song is versatile as you can sing it slow or fast, and create a different atmosphere. You can
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Valentine Music and Movement Songs for Music Therapy Props I had fun making Valentine inspired music and movement props this year: balloon ball stretchy band streamers I’m also sharing some music and activities you can enjoy for this special time of extra love! Valentine Music
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Teaching Literacy with the Stretchy Band I have mentioned several times before that I have some great videos that were taken back in 2012 and I am slowly working on getting through and sharing. The following is one I have really been wanting to share,
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Jump on Board the Stretchy Band Train Music Games Activities Back in 1997 I started to work at a child care center in Alaska. I worked in the two year old room and loved it. My sister made me a circle time tape and book
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6 Halloween Songs to Inspire your Music and Movement I am a big fan of Margie La Bella and her songs and am thankful that Music Therapy Ed shared these last week. I wanted to make sure you could add them to your resource list
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Let’s Sing About Pumpkins with Miss Carole of Macaroni Soup Have you heard? There may be a shortage of pumpkins for Fall 2015! OH NO! Miss Carole here, of Macaroni Soup –Active Music for Active Learners! We grow a lot of pumpkins here in Illinois,
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