Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music
A Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love & Kindness, Inspiring Creativity & Joy.
Today I was singing about birds to my preschool classes. We were talking about feeding birds during the winter. I have small stuffed, toy birds from the National Audubon Society that sing exactly like real birds. We talked all about how birds find food and the fact that birds are not allowed to go food shopping at the local grocery store! All the children thought that was quite funny! Suddenly one little girl raised her hand to say that she was very sad because her family did not have a birdfeeder. Then the entire class got creative. We decided together that if anyone didn’t have a birdfeeder, one solution would be to make a snowman. We talked about making the snowman’s eyes out of nuts and his smile out of peanuts. That would certainly please the woodland squirrels and chipmunks. Then we figured the snowman should definitely have a carrot nose as a treat for the deer and bunnies living in the forest. Finally one child suggested using his summer beach pail for the snowman to hold, filling it with birdseed! Somebody else thought the birdseed could also be the snowman’s hair.
What a great idea! (Of course, Mother Nature has to cooperate and provide the snow!) A snowman, put together by children, bearing gifts for nature’s creatures– big and small. We concluded by singing Frosty the Snowman. It was a wonderful day, full of happiness and great ideas. As for me, I left with a renewed sense of childlike urgency. We NEED to have some snow.
I want to build a snowman!