Welcome to Clap for Classics!, where music and learning go hand in hand! In today’s sweet and playful episode, we’re sharing three favorite activities from our Nursery Rhyme Baby Time course—perfect for babies and toddlers, but fun for the whole family. Whether you’re gently guiding your baby’s hands or marching with a preschooler, this episode is full of joyful, musical bonding moments.

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🎵 Songs and Activities Featured:

Wind the Bobbin Up – A classic with fun actions that babies and big kids can enjoy together. Lyrics:

Wind the bobbin up, wind the bobbin up

Pull, pull, clap clap clap

Wind it back again, wind it back again

Pull, pull, clap clap clap

Point to the ceiling, point to the floor

Point to the window, point to the door

Clap your hands together, 1, 2, 3

Put your hands upon your knees

Peek-a-Boo Scarf Game – Featuring the song: "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"

A playful way to engage babies with surprise, repetition, and song.

Move to the Music – The March from Children’s Games by Georges Bizet

Help your baby feel the steady beat with gentle movement while listening to this delightful classical piece (also known as “Trumpet and Drum”).

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What’s Inside?

• A lyric sheet for our fun, interactive song "I Am a Fossil"
• A musical map to help your little one follow along with Fossils from Carnival of the Animals It’s the perfect way to extend the learning and play beyond the podcast!

✨ 🎶 We’re back! 🎶 And we’re kicking off this episode with a roaring good time! 🦖🦴 Today, we’re exploring fossils and dinosaurs through music, movement, and fun!

First, we’ll sing a silly, interactive song about a fossil who really wants to roar like a dinosaur.

Then, we’ll listen to the "Fossils" movement from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns and discover how the xylophone sounds like bones!

What You’ll Do in This Episode:

✅ Pretend to be a fossil (stay super still!) and a dinosaur (strike a fierce pose and roar!)

✅ Sing along with our original fossil song and practice silent roaring 🤫🦕

✅ Move like a musician! Stand and play an imaginary xylophone when you hear it, then sit and pretend to play the piano 🎹

✅ Listen for a special Twinkle Twinkle surprise hidden in the music ✨

✅ Laugh at a silly knock-knock joke from one of our listeners!

Music Featured in This Episode:

🎵 Fossils from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

🎶 Our original "I Am a Fossil" song written by Kathryn Lieppman

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It is February, and it is Black History Month! Today we’re sharing music we love by black artists of the 20th century.

Hello, by Ella Jenkins

Hello hello hello and how are you

I’m fine I’m fine and I hope that you are too

Sing this song with any variation you can think of, soft, loud, humming, whistling, la la la-ing!

Ella Jenkins has been dubbed the “The First Lady of the Children's Folk Song.” Here is a playlist of some of our favorites, but be sure to check her out with your kids, we think you’ll love her music as much as we do.

To watch a mini class where Ms. Elizabeth and her 5 kids share 3 Ella Jenkins songs click here: https://www.clapforclassics.com/blog/ellajenkins

This Little Light of Mine

This little light of mine (tap knees),

I’m gonna let it shine, (arms: up down up down)

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. (dance in a circle)

This iconic American gospel song has been energizing and uniting diverse groups of people for nearly a century. It’s impossible to sing this song without moving your body and feeling a spark of excitement and purpose. It is a great song to sing with kids because the words are so repetitive, and the message is so positive! We’ve added some simple actions to each verse, and suggested a flashlight activity for the second time through -- kids and flashlights always seem to be drawn to each other, right?

Don’t miss these incredible renditions of this song by these famous black artists.

Aretha Franklin

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Fannie Lou Hamer

Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin Performed by Stefano Ligoratti. Recording used with permission. https://musopen.org/music/43164-maple-leaf-rag/#recordings

You don’t want to miss this recording of Scott Joplin performing this piece himself!

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