Moon Dust

Dinosaur songs, truck stories and even an ode to napkins. Something for everyone! (Especially people that like music and games)

This Clap It Back manages to squeeze in tributes to a few of the many celebrations happening this month like International Drum Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, National Bike Month and American Cheese Month. What a great way to gain a strong sense of rhythm! ✪

We're also celebrating the release of Echo Songs, Vol. 2, a new collection of echo songs from the podcast. Here is a fan favorite song, I Am a Lonely T Rex, about friendly but lonely T Rex. Why won't anyone play with him? Is it because he'll eat them? Probably. ✪

A Tiny Song twofer! One is by me about napkins. The other is by Noodlinos Sydney and Andi and it is about Fun in the Tub. ✪

We end with a You Make The Story game all about trucks, and a little about geese. Good luck! ✪

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 both is and ins't about geese.

✪✪✪ 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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Pants Pants Pants

In today's episode we question our pants, celebrate the enormous gifts of James Baldwin and work together to make up a story about a creature who lives in a tree. Clearly a certain streaming service should have put their production dollars into Noodle Loaf instead of that other podcaster guy.

We kick things off like we kick off our pants after a long day spent jogging in a rain storm, by questioning the need for pants in the first place. This Call and Response game was inspired by some listeners who sent in a song they made up to help get keep up morale during wiggly diaper changes. I flipped it and made it into a game. Just like their baby flips and tries to make diaper changes into a game. ✪

James Baldwin Used His Words to say so many things. He was enormously gifted at eloquently and poignantly critiquing the world around him. This Echo Song is a tribute to his talent. ✪

In our Mad Libs spinoff, You Make The Story, you get to fill in the blanks in real time to create whatever story your imagination wants to invent. ✪

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 is 100% non-GMO.

✪✪✪ 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:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out, handwritten letter and phone jingle! 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: https://noodleloaf.com/choir

Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Kangaroo Water Park

If you like smoothies then you'll love this new episode of Noodle Loaf. It's got mangoes (rhythm games), bananas (singing) and freshly squeezed orange juice (mad-lib style story games). Press play and take a gulp!

Our Clap It Back game gives you and your family a chance to learn rhythmic phrases. Syllables, cadence, rhythm, tempo, beat...so many skills to glean from this game. It also incorporates a technique used in music classrooms and pedagogies like the Suzuki method. Things get tricky as the game goes on, so hold on to your smoothies! ✪

This Echo Song doesn't have a lot of words. Some songs don't need a lot of words to do what they need to do. Other songs (like Hurricane by Bob Dylan) need a ton of words. This is not that. The name of this song is "Sister Oh Sister" and it is meant to evoke feelings about the people in your life, after all. ✪

We recently found a half filled book of Mad-Libs on a neighbors' stoop. We had a lot of fun with it and it was exciting to see how different another families brand of hijinks felt in comparison to our own. This game is similar. It is called You Make The Story and your job is to add your own words to help tell the story. In this case you are opening up a pizzeria. Good luck with your new pizzeria endeavor! ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids you can slurp up like a smoothie but without the brain freeze.

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

http://tinyurl.com/familiescan

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

Going With The Flow

A bit of a theme going on in this one.  Who improvises?  Who does not?  What does improvise mean? What does amprovise mean?  As far as I know, it does not mean anything. Nonetheless this episode is fun and educational and fun and introduces the concept of improvisation to children.

This Clap It Back rhythm game is two lessons in one and a whole lot of fun. Children will gain rhythmic awareness and learn the sections of the orchestra, namely woodwinds, percussion, brass and strings. Plus we rhyme "piccolos" with "cover holes." ✪

This episode’s Echo Song called Improvise has special guest appearances by podcasters Alex Goldman of Reply All, Mick Sullivan of the Past and the Curious, Pamela Rogers of Buttons and Figs and Nosaj from the rap group New Kingdom. The song teaches the definition of "Improvising" in the musical sense and in the sense of going with the flow when life throws you curveballs. It's a song about resilience and having a good attitude for kids and the grown ups who love them even when they spill all of the snacks all of the time. ✪

Story Song - My Mother is a Baby - This is a song tale about a mother who is a baby, not a metaphorical baby, but an actual baby. It's a silly song for kids that's a little bit Elvis, a little bit Shel Silverstein and a whole lotta fun. ✪

You get to play this mad libs for kids in real time. I like to play this on long car rides where each person in the car takes turning filling in the blank. This You Make The Story is about cooking poorly. ✪

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

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

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✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks

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The echo song and instructions are here:
http://noodleloaf.com/choir
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Video Playdate

Won't you sing and dance with us?  We've got a new song about video playdates, because there has been a major increase in those in our lives and possibly yours as well.  Might as well sing about it :)

Video Playdate (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Time To Move - Robot Dance (Creative Movement) ✪

You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪

Wobbly Tooths

These words aren't going to rhyme themselves.  That's where you come in.  Hats Pear Shoe Bum Tin.  Cat Hair Yukon Gin.  Matts Dared Lou "Jump In!" etc.  There's an echo song that is kind of about Stevie Wonder, at least peripherally.  And a mad lib style game but with more leeway.  I strongly advise a listen.

Rhyme Time (Improvisation / Phonological Awareness) ✪

Magic and Surprises (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪

Music, Games and Fun Are Here

Welcome children and birds! Lots of fun within. Strap on your singing beards and join in the funnnnnnnn....k

Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ 

Doin' Alright (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪

Old Blind Loafy Noodles

Kids telling jokes and story telling folks meet Magic Number claps and made up folk singers for another episode of music and learning and singing and run on sentences.  

Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ 

Jokes (Laughs are Good) ✪

There Was A Man And He Was Mad (Story Song / Listening Skills) ✪

You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪

Turtle Table

If y'all want to party like we do, if y'all want to party like us, then by all means, please do.  Here's what to expect at aforementioned party:

Call and Response (Rhythmic Awareness) ✪

The World Is Big, The World Is Small (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪

Ear Worms and Eye Rolls

Our celebration of Black History Month continues with a joyful Gospel song called "Glory Glory," shared with us by Eli "Paperboy" Reed.  And as if that wasn't enough we've got rhyming games and a fill-in-the-blank story about why we get upset and what to do when we're feeling that way.  

Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪

Glory Glory (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪

Special thanks to Eli "Paperboy" Reed for sharing this week's song.  Find out more about his music at http://elipaperboyreed.com/

Dingo Bingo Bongo

We were sitting here eating gustew when who should stop by?  Adam Gardner from the big deal rock band Guster.  Not only is he a talented musician but he also knows a LOT about what's an instrument and what's an animal.  He helps us out with the today's trivia game.  We also have a very special echo song about all the kinds of beautiful families there are in the world and more!

A Family Can (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪
Trivia: Instrument or Animal w/Adam Gardner (Music Appreciation) ✪
You Make The Story (Improvisation) ✪

GUEST: GUSTER's Adam Gardner

Hello Hello Hellooo

Learning through play! Or to quote Beyoncé "I Play, Okay, I Play."  At least that's what I think she says.  Maybe I need new headphones.  Regardless, we're back with more music education in the form of songs, games and good times.  

Singing Slide (vocal warm-up) ✪
Down By The Bay (echo song) ✪
You Make The Story (improvisation) ✪
Time To Move (creative movement) ✪

A Spectacular Ending

Season One's grand finale! And we're ending with a boom bap boom. We've got a guest appearance by Angela Ferrari. We've got an echo song about getting dirty. And a whale sounds remix. Look out Kanye!

Echo Song (Take A Little Water) ✪
You Make The Story (by Story Spectacular) ✪
Name That Sound ✪
Jam Along ✪