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An Impromtu Music Activity in the Car
By Deborah Lee | June 21, 2008
My son (almost 4) and I were in the car the other day and he asked for a song. I asked which song he would like to sing.
He just said “Happy, Sad”. He’s been talking a lot about happy and sad lately. He’s at a stage where he’s putting words to his emotions and starting to grasp opposites about abstract ideas.
I just started singing the words happy and sad for him making the music sound happy on the word happy and sad on the word sad. He then said his tummy was happy, his mouth was happy, then his tummy was sad.
I just made up words about how his tummy and mouth were happy because his food was good and then it got sad because he ate too much.
I sang it 3 or 4 times and the melody ended up being different every time. We were having fun being silly and had a little music lesson to boot. .The best lessons are the ones that don’t feel like lessons.
Deborah
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