Dan Saks 6/8/22 Dan Saks 6/8/22

Working Together

Anyone cane name a problem, but can you name a solution? Anyone can make a doodle, but can you make up a song about yours? Press play and find out!

Our Echo Song this week is We Can Fix It, a song that makes the case for problem solving. It's a fabulous life skill with a catchy hook. Have fun singing along to this groovy song! ✪

Take out your pencils because we've got a Guided Doodle! You won't know what it is you are drawing. You may never know. But I do and more importantly, fun will be had. ✪

Now that your doodle is drawn, it is time to improvise a song about the characters you just drew. I give you prompts and you sing the answers. It's equal parts simple and ridiculous and that's why we call it KaraYOUke. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids that sneaks in counting skills.

✪✪✪ Echo Songs, Vol. 2 OUT NOW!: https://noodleloaf.bandcamp.com/album/echo-songs-vol-2 ✪✪✪

✪✪✪ I have written three pictures books celebrating families. They make great gifts :) https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-dan-saks ✪✪✪

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Dan Saks 4/1/22 Dan Saks 4/1/22

Feeling So Serene

We won't let all these April Fools hoaxes keep us from having some interactive educational music based fun!

A delightful Clap It Back about rainbows and love (dedicated to the governments of Texas and Florida.) Develop rhythmic awareness while committing to a more compassionate world. ✪

A Tiny Song called Mozzarella Sticks that is a round for kids AKA a canon for kids. Try it out and share what you got by tagging @noodleloafshow! ✪

Our Echo Song this episode is called Outside and it is about how soul nourishing the browns and greens of the forest can be. A great way to enhance pitch recognition and celebrate nature. ✪

Did you know that you are a songwriter? Well, I did. And this lyrical and melodic improvisation game called KaraYOUke intends to prove it ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids that's 10 minutes long that is based on the life of the BeeGees. APRIL FOOLS!

✪✪✪ I have written three pictures books celebrating families. They make great gifts :) https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-dan-saks ✪✪✪

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

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✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: https://noodleloaf.com/choir

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Dan Saks 9/15/21 Dan Saks 9/15/21

Oodles of Balloons

You won't learn to spell in today's episode, but you may learn to mispronounce the word "barber." You will also learn how to plan for special occasions. In other words you will learn MOST of the most important things. And if you enjoy singing songs then that's even better.

Birthdays, graduations, growing your first eyebrow...what do these things all have in common? They are all very special occasions. This echo song is an all purpose special occasion celebration song. It helps children develop their sense of pitch, rhythm and hosting. ✪

Today's Rhyme Time is a collaboration with Tibbs and MG from the very silly show Paper Bag Party. They need your help making rhymes! If you don't listen to this episode then they will be wandering forever in a land of unfinished quatrains. HELP THEM PLEASE!!! ✪

Does your child sit in the car or their room or a shopping cart making up songs for hours about whatevs? If you said yes then this is the music game for them. It builds verbal skills and improvisational skills and it is called KaraYOUke ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids hiding in side your smart speaker.

I wrote a book!!!: ✪✪✪ FAMILIES GROW - an Amazon Best Book of the Month - by Dan Saks and Brooke Smart available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bookshop.org/a/9590/9780593223673

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

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✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: http://noodleloaf.com/choir

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Dan Saks 3/17/21 Dan Saks 3/17/21

Special Drums Special Rhythms

Fun. Fun Music. Fun Music For Kids. Fun Music For Kids And Their Grown Growns. Fun Music For Kids And Their Grown Growns That Involves Saying The Names of Birds Wrong. i.e. Curdnal.

Pretty Birdies - Echo Song - A repeat after me song about different birds! But we're not just singing bird names over here, we are singing them incorrectly because that's something we like to do. I don't know if your kids will learn about birds by singing along but there's a chance they'll develop their senses of pitch and rhythm. ✪

Learn About Tablas with Sufyan - Noodlino Sufyan is a 7 year old from Brooklyn, NY who has been studying how to play the tabla. He tells us a little about the instrument and demonstrates a couple bols (rhythmic sequences) that he has learned. He is cool. Tablas are cool. You are cool. ✪

Clap It Back - In this rhythm game about drums of the world, we clap back the rhythms of phrases describing various world drums over Sufyan's tablatastic grooves. It's a bit of music appreciation mixed with some drumming fundamentals. ✪

KaraYOUke - If your child has been waiting patiently for someone to ask them to write a song about donkey teeth, then they need wait no more! This game asks you and your children to write your owns based on prompts you hear. We provide the music and the prompts, your family writes the songs. It's a songwriting lesson and a mad-lib but more fun than either one by itself. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson but it's free and you don't have to drive to it.

✪✪✪ FAMILIES BELONG - one of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 - by Dan Saks available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out and a handwritten letter! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com. ✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: http://noodleloaf.com/choir Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Dan Saks 1/13/21 Dan Saks 1/13/21

Little Purple Wildflowers

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new EP from Noodle Loaf! In honor of MLK's birthday and Black History Month, Noodle Loaf has released an album of five Black History songs for kids. Each is an original echo song, available with and without the echo for maximum sing-along-ability. Check that out on your choice of music platform after you listen to this hot and fresh new podcast episode!

Echo Song - "Oh Let Us Sing of Dr. King" is a celebration of Dr. King's dream of equality, and is one of the five Black History songs for kids on our newest EP. Kids can practice pitch matching, and reflect on Dr. King's message of love. ✪

KaraYOUke - Nothing goes with melodic and verbal improvisation like an ABC phonics song for kids! Improvise the words to a song using words that start with the alphabet letters: ABCDE. Learn the alphabet and improvisational songwriting at the same time. ✪

Time To Move - a creative movement song, which also gives space for mindfulness with a guided meditation for kids through nature imagery ✪

Links and Announcements

✪✪✪ FAMILIES BELONG - one of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 - by Dan Saks available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and a handwritten letter! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir?
The echo song and instructions are here: http://www.noodleloaf.com/choir

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Dan Saks 9/9/20 Dan Saks 9/9/20

Juggling Tambourines

This episode contains gratuitous goofiness and clandestine education. If you're not careful you may find yourself giggling and learning in equal measure. Proceed with caution. Fun children's song that parents will love too lie within. You've been warned.

Echo Song - Muuuuuud - We kick things off with a song about nature that encourages messy play and saying the word "mud" in a funny voice. Recommended for fans of Waldorf schooling and Waldorf salads. ✪

Story Song - Leg Bone - From the archives of legendary kids musician Old Blind Loafy Noodles comes this funny story song. It is not an authoratative song about the human body but it is a silly song for kids that might teach children about song form. ✪

Time To Move - Go Bananas - Preschoolers have long loved this action song, but now with a funky groove it is perfect for early elementary age kids too. The music game encourages kids to make up their own dances so make sure all drinks are secured. ✪

KaraYOUke - A songwriting lesson for kids wearing a karaoke robe. We provide the music and the vocab, you provide the melody and the lyrics. This music game develops melodic and verbal improvisational skills and may turn your child into the next Dolly Parton. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! Making music making friends!

✪✪✪ FAMILIES BELONG - the new board book from Dan Saks available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. Membership starts at $3: www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir?
The echo song and instructions are here:
http://noodleloaf.com/choir
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Dan Saks 5/13/20 Dan Saks 5/13/20

Passin’ and Tappin’

We've got new games, we've got old games, but that's not all, we've also got bird calls. So keep on your all day pajamas, cancel your bear salon appointment and smash that play button.

We've got new games, we've got old games, but that's not all, we've also got bird calls. So keep on your all day pajamas, cancel your bear salon appointment and smash that play button because we’ve got children’s songs and games by the bucket full just for you.

Feel The Rhythm - Kids are going to feel the rhythm in their bodies during this creative movement activity. They will need some kind of small object to play the game. It will also help if the enjoy music activities for kids. If they don’t, they should check out This American Life instead. ✪

Echo Song - Exclaim! - Words help share how you feel. But in the event you can’t come up with the right words, then pick up a guitar and scream. This is a song about feelings, a song about emotions and a song about the power of music to help kids express themselves either verbally or sonically. ✪

KaraYOUke - A songwriting activity for kids in a karaoke costume. We provide the music and the prompts, kids write the melody and the lyrics. This music game develops melodic and verbal improvisational skills and may turn your child into the next Burt Bacharach. ✪

Dan Saks 4/1/20 Dan Saks 4/1/20

Torte in a Fort

Two truths and a lie. True tooths and a fly. Few sleuths in a sty etc. etc. Red Herrings abound in this early April release. Catch them, or be caught!

The cool thing about you is that you can pretty much make a song up about anything anytime. This game called KaraYOUke gives you ample opportunity to do that and develop your improvisation abilities in the process. ✪

A hip-hop Echo Song about forts. Everyone can pretty much stop writing songs now. ✪

I take you on an Audio Walk through a snowy forest. Great for close listening and building aural awareness. And just being in tune with nature which is a great tune to be in. ✪

Take the skills you’ve learned so far and let em loose during a round of Jam Along, an improvisational rhythm game for all. ✪

Dan Saks 11/27/19 Dan Saks 11/27/19

Less Honking More Singing

Finally an echo song celebrating how much everyone in your family loves wearing a lot of layers in the winter time. Plus some patterns to finish, some songs to make up on the spot and a funky funky groove over which you are invited to jam. Traffic? What traffic?

I'm Layering Up (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪

Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition) ✪

Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) ✪

Dan Saks 9/4/19 Dan Saks 9/4/19

Winky Dinky Little Pinky

We're back with more singing, dancing, laughing and learning! So dub the show onto a blank cassette, pop it into your tape deck, press rewind and then join in the Noodle Loaf fun!

Dance Dance Noodlution (Creative Movement) ✪

Snuggling (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪

Kids Talking About Stuff ✪

Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) ✪

Dan Saks 5/15/19 Dan Saks 5/15/19

More Songs About Rhyming and Food

Put on your rhyming hat, your singing pants and your drawing cummerbund because today's show has those things inside of it. We have a splendid variety of music and creativity based activities for you and your family to enjoy together. What will the mystery drawing be? What food is typically served with Akara? What rhymes with Pangolin? These questions and more may or may not be answered within!

Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪

Go Together (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪

Guided Doodle (Listening Skills / Music Appreciation) ✪

Dan Saks 2/11/19 Dan Saks 2/11/19

Something is a-Wigglin’

We're Noodlefornia Dreaming on such a winter's day. How about all you mama's and papa's? All this month we'll be sharing some fun Black History Month songs and games, but they're also just great songs and games that are fun to sing and play during all the months. Even June, for example.

Pizza Pizza Daddy-O (Creative Movement) ✪

My Aunt Came Back (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

KaraYOUke (Melodic and Verbal Improvisation) ✪