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) ✪

Alligator Breath

We begin with a two part ode to friendship. And what better activities to enjoy with a friend than the naming of sounds followed by the jamming along to said sounds which have been artfully remixed into a funky funky beat?  And more!

Kids Talking About Stuff ✪

A Friend Like You (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Name That Sound (Aural Awareness) ✪

Jam Along (Rhythmic 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) ✪

Some Drums Bap

Slide your way into our island breezy echo song about finding the good vibes in everything.  Then bring that positive energy to our jam sesh.  It's all good Noodlinos, it's all good.  

Singing Slide (Vocal Warm-Up) ✪

It's All Good (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation/Body Percussion) ✪

Bloomin’ and Boomin’

For the first time ever in the world of kids podcasts, a Chaka Demus and Pliers joke as part of a rhythm exercise.  Did I mention we have a Patreon?  Plus! a new song segment that's like a picture book for your ears.  Let me know if you like it at noodleloafshow@gmail.com 

Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪

Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪

A Painter Who Lives in a Box (Story Song / Listening Skills) ✪

Poodle Poaf

Do you like falsehoods and fallacies?  How about music and games?  A touch of tomfoolery?  We've got it all folks in this April Fools themed episode we call Poodle Poaf.  It's part of the #KidsListen April Fools Sweeps event along with other fine shows like Multiverse and Good Stuff Kids.  Press play and brace for giggles and rhymes.  

Pizza Penguin (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

Kids Talking About Stuff - Steel Pan Trinidad Carnival Edition (Music Appreciation) ✪

Dance Dance Noodlution (Creative Movement) ✪

No Ordinary Loaf

Our final Black History Month episode of the month celebrates the under celebrated bicycle racing champion of the world, Major Taylor.  You can learn all about him and how his "fame was undermined by prejudice" in this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/major-taylor-overlooked.html

Plus! We clap our way through a yummy recipe for skillet cornbread inspired by the recipe from this website here:  http://www.brandisdiary.com/brandisdiary/betterthanjiffy

And more!

Major Taylor (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪

Time To Move (Creative Movement / Tonal Awareness) ✪

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/

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) ✪

Solfege It’s Been Good To Know Ya

Something for everyone in today's episode, be you interested in alternative Aardvark names or Ocarina fun facts, or just some good ol' fashioned Solfege pattern finishing.  Plus a So-Mi-So "Call and Response" song about a singing head cat.

Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition / Solfege) ✪

On My Head (Call and Response / Pitch Matching) ✪

Trivia - Instrument or Animal (Music Appreciation / General Knowledge) ✪ 

Duck Truck Goose

Your challenge this week?  Tell one other family about all the fun they are missing by not listening to Noodle Loaf.  Let's bubble our audience!  I mean double.  Do I?   

Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪

Trail To Mexico (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

Name That Sound (Aural Awareness) ✪

Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation/Body Percussion) ✪ 

Weird Beard

In which we have fun with rhymes, do an action song about winter time bundling/unbundling and pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. the best way we know how, by singing.

Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪

Oh Let Us Sing (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ 

Correxico

Hello my mustachioed mammal friends! It's Noodle Loaf time.  Singing? check. Moving? check. Laughing? check check check.  Ready, Set, Noodle Loaf!!!

Time to Move (Creative Movement) ✪

Red Balloon (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

Trivia (Music Appreciation) ✪ 

Honus Burpytoad

This is not a tub.  This is a podcast powered by my good vibes.  And we're back with more music fun times!  Here's what's on the "agenda" for today's show:

The episode kicks off with a riveting round of Clap It Back. This music game helps kids develop their listening skills and sense of rhythm. It is also fun and silly, which never hurts. ✪

You know when you are in the bath and you use shampoo to make a horn? That’s a shampoo unicorn horn and this is an Echo Song about that and about making believe the tub is all kinds of exciting things. Develop imagination and sense of pitch at the same time? Yes please. ✪

We end with a relaxing guided creative movement Time To Move game about snowflakes. This is a great way to develop body awareness, music appreciation and expressiveness. If ever there was a movement multi-vitamin this would be it.  ✪

Doodle-Dee-Doo

My kids have been loving the I Had A Rooster book by Laura Vaccaro Seeger recently, so we decided to put that song in this week's show.  It's a bona fide classic kids song and now you get to make animal songs along with us as we sing it.  PLUS we do what one does when a donkey sound presents itself to us...we jam it out.

I Had A Rooster (Cumulative Song) ✪
Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition) ✪
Jam Along (Improvisation/Body Percussion) ✪

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

It’s Not A Tuber

More interactive music education games from the Team Noodle Loaf coming coming atcha! This episode has a lot of stuff about beats.  We love beats!  BTW, if you're not sure what the Chop Chop game is supposed to look like, ask the Google and you will find many vids showing the motions.  

Clap It Back (Listening Skills/Beat Awareness) ✪
Chop Chop Chippity Chop (Steady Beat) ✪
Dance Dance Noodlution (Movement) ✪

Pillowcase Pants

Ever wonder what it sounds like when a tiny dog knocks on a door and asks for candy? Finding out has never been easier thanks to today's edition of Name That Sound.  Plus! Let your inner and outer children be inspired by Saint Saens' Danse Macabre as you paint an imaginary bubble from the inside.  Also!!! An echo song about the joy of making your own costume.  

Name That Sound (Listening Skills) ✪
I Made a Costume (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪
Bubble Painting (Creative Movement) ✪

Autumnaton

I love a good pattern and we've got plenty of them on today's show.  We also update an old echo song that updated a different old echo song which I recently learned was an update of a really old echo song about the Canadian military.  Hello operator?  But the big news is we have a guest beatboxer laying the groove in our Jam Along segment.  Woot woot!

Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition) ✪
Rick A Bamboo (Echo Song) ✪
Jam Along (Rhythm and Improvisation) ✪

Razzle Dazzle

Mystery abounds in this edition of Noodle Loaf as we ask the eternal question, is it an animal or is it a musical instrument?  Even the echo song reverberates with enigma.  Where are we going and will you be awake when we get there?  One things for sure, a land expanse demands the clapping of our hands.

Trivia: Instrument or Animal edition (Music Appreciation) ✪
At the Top of the Hill - (Echo Song) ✪
Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪