Celebrate Sing With Your Child Month with Music Together

March 2015

March is Sing With Your Child Month, so why not check out some fun ideas and join the celebration! Hold a musical play date, sing and read along with your favorite books, or participate in contests---and maybe win a prize! A great way to get started? Share a favorite song with your children---and then teach it to another family!

Help us spread the word about the power of music. Share this video on your social networks using the hashtag # SingMonth2015.

Have a Musical Play Date

Music activities are perfect for play dates or family gatherings. This month, try one of these musical games developed by Music Together teachers. Share your stories, photos, and videos with us on social media using the hashtag #SingMonth2015.

Sing and Color---and Add Your Child's Artwork to Our Gallery

Combine singing, reading, and coloring and help us celebrate the release of our tenth Singalong Storybook, Two Little Blackbirds. Download one of the coloring pages featuring the book's beautiful illustrations and submit a photo of your child's artwork (or of them proudly displaying it!) on the Sing With Your Child Month web page. We'll add it to our online gallery and enter you into a drawing to win one of ten copies of the book being given away. Share your photo on Facebook with the hashtag #SingMonth2015 for an extra raffle entry.

Share Your Family's Go-to Playlist on Facebook

What songs are guaranteed to get your family up and moving? Do you like to sing along to the Beatles? Belt out show tunes? We want to know! Share your family's top 3 songs with us on Facebook by making your status: "The 3 songs that always get my family to join in are . . . " Then, tag 3 of your friends and challenge them to make their own lists! Use the hastag #SingMonth2015 and tag "Music Together LLC" for your chance to win instruments or storybooks from our online store.

Bring Music Into Storytime

Seeing a story through your child's eyes as you read together is magical. And when you bring music into storytime, it becomes even more special.

Check out our video, "Using Your Singalong Storybook Musically" for some ideas about enhancing your children's favorite books based on songs. The activities demonstrated by the Music Together teacher will work with any of our Singalong Storybooks or your child's other favorites.

Introducing Two Little Blackbirds

This Sing With Your Child Month, we're also celebrating the release of our tenth Singalong Storybook, Two Little Blackbirds. Based on a song from the upcoming Triangle Song Collection (Spring 2015), this book tells the story of "two little blackbirds" named Jack and Jill. They fly away and return over and over as they build their nest, hatch their eggs, and teach their babies to fly.

Available in both hardcover and board-book formats, each purchase includes a song download and activities to try at home.

Musical Craft: Simple Blackbird Puppets

Bring "Two Little Blackbirds" to life with puppets. Your family can sing and act out the story from the Singalong Storybook---or make up your own! You can make simple blackbird puppets with black construction paper, googly eyes, and Popsicle sticks.

Download the pattern (right) and use it to cut blackbirds from construction paper. (Or print on white paper and ask your children to color their blackbird first.) Add googly eyes and paste the cutout onto a Popsicle stick. Voila!