• The board book My Many Colored Days, by Dr. Seuss.
• IDEAS Music Color CD
• Group includes: 20 durable 25” square, washable nylon scarves – 2 of each of the following 11 colors: red, orange, yellow, kelly green, royal blue, purple, brown, pink,  grey, black. One for each hand, or enough for an early childhood class. 
  
• Small Kit: 10 – 25″ creative movement scarves of each color above.
  

• Use the kit to reinforce:Color Recognition.
  Reading Books.
  Identifying and Exploring Mood.
  Creating Movement to Match Music.
  Starting and Stopping–Motor Control.
  Joyful Times Spent with Parents, Teachers, Caregivers, Books, Music, and Movement.How?Read the book to your child(ren).
  Discuss how the gray tulle scarves look, feel and flow differently than the other scarves. How this color relates to the story – “(gray)…does not move.”
  Explore the scarf colors. Move them through space. Make air pathways with them, then walk and turn with the scarves.
  Read the story again, moving the matching scarf to the music for each page.
  Switch colors and repeat this activity on many days.
  Play the complete music pieces for longer movement experiences.
  Play dress up, and dress up stuffed animals with scarves. Be sure to say the scarf color when it is chosen.Now make up new ways to use the book, scarves, and music! Its all inside of you!

CD Track List
Excerpts to go with Book Reading:

1. Different Colored Days
2. Red (Wild Horseman, Schumann)
3. Blue
4. Brown
5. Yellow
6. Gray
7. Orange
8. Green
9. Purple
10. Pink (Chinese Dance, Tchaikovsky)
11. Black
12. Mixed Up
13. Different Colored Days

Complete Selections:

14. Contrasts, Jensen (Different Colored Days)
15. Rondeau, Bach (Blue)
16. The Elephant, Saint-Saëns (Brown)
17. Flight of the Bumblebee, Rimsky-Korsakov (Yellow)
18. The Entertainer, Joplin (Orange)
19. Air, Bach (Green)
20. Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven (Purple)
21. Russian Sailors’ Dance, Gliére (Black)
22. Batik, Worsley (Mixed Up)

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You know what would be amazing for Bear Paw Creek to offer? Storage baskets! For instruments and scarves! Natural baskets- with cloth liners, or made of soft rag, or crochet (crocheted? Hard to make past tense!):

Seems like ALL teachers could use something like this. I’m surrounded by plastic here. Yuck!!!

Small  – 8″ wide x 7″ tall

MSRP:  $20

Medium –  10″ wide x 8″ tall

MSRP:  $30

Large – 12″ wide x 9″ tall

MSRP:  $35

Set of 3 Baskets

MSRP:  $70

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If you have found yourself on this page – you are in for a treat of a good deal!

We are so excited to be collaborating with Carole Stephens of Macaroni Soup!  She has such a passion for what she does and draws one in from her vivacious personality.  She has been the driving force behind adding a teacher/leader streamer and behind our new scarf sets.  Combining her ten award winning CDs, which you can now purchase HERE at Bear Paw Creek, with their music and movement products is a sure way to bring creative learning to your class.

Miss Carole says:

“Children learn by moving through their environment, and music helps them MOVE! Active music participation promotes tip-top brain and body growth and provides opportunities for children of all abilities to work on social, emotional and physical skills. It also facilitates the acquisition of early literacy skills: rhyme, pattern, sequence, vocabulary, crossing the midline, rhythm, tracking – and more!”

So if you have been privileged to be at one of her workshops and she ran out of our music products, here you can still get her special pricing!

Mac Soup Special  –  MSRP $107  Miss Carole’s Price: $95

• Recommended for using for up to 12 children
• 1 Medium Stretchy Band
• 13 Scarves
• Rainbow Balloon Ball

Soupersized  –  MSRP $152  Miss Carole’s Price $130

• Recommended for use for 12-24 children
• Large stretchy Band
• 25 Scarves
• Rainbow Balloon Ball

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This tone chime was thought of and designed with the traveling music therapist and music educator in mind. It is made of quality nylon backpack cloth (which is durable and water resistant) as the outer shell, with soft twill for the lining.  The roll up case holds nine tone chime instruments (or other instruments of your choice) and rolls up for convenient storage. We have improved the tie system with a draw cord and cord lock to make this case even more user friendly.  Colors will vary with available stock.

This is a safe and convenient way to carry a few chimes when you need them.

When fully opened it measures 27″ high x 28″ wide and each pocket is 3″ wide. Fold the top half over the tone chimes, roll it up and close with our drawcord and  cord-lock closure.  It has also been known to carry mallets, drum sticks, woodcarving tools, and knives!

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