18. A Happy King, a Busy Hen and a Sleeping Princess

In this episode we share 3 activities that come from our Fairy Tale Course inside of our All Access Membership.  Grab a drum and some rhythm sticks and let’s enjoy these musical stories together.

Old King Cole: for this one you need your drum and a mallet to keep a steady beat and do some actions.  We’ll also be learning about the musical concepts of staccato and legato during this activity.  To watch the video of this activity and get some more ways to extend and adapt this song check out our latest blog post: https://www.clapforclassics.com/blog/oldkingcole

The Little Red Hen: Grab your rhythm sticks for this one and make up some actions with your little one while you listen.  This simple tune that we’ve added makes the story more memorable, we think you’ll be singing and acting this one out all day.

The Fairy Garden, from Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. For our final activity today we tell the end of the story of Sleeping Beauty while listening to this gorgeous classical piece of music.  We couldn’t bear to cut any of this piece out, so we share the whole piece which is a full 4 minutes, but you’ll love listening to the story, acting it out, or imagining what is happening in this culminating movement from Ravel’s suite for children.

To hear a bit more of Sleeping Beauty’s story, listen to Episode 5 of our podcast: Love Songs for Little Ones.

For information on our Clap for Classics! All Access Membership where you can get access to a library of music activities like the ones on this podcast go to www.clapforclassics.com/join.

Classical pieces featured in this episode have been licensed for Clap for Classics to use by Classical.com

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