Musical Seeds to Shake
Materials: Empty cans with lids like coffee, snack cans or soup cans; or make lids by covering tops with plastic wrap securing with a rubber band; construction paper, crayons; markers; tempura paint; tape; scissors; and seeds.
Method: Leader cuts out paper to fit around each can. Children can draw a flower or vegetable on the paper. Tape the decorated paper around the can, and have children place a handful of seeds into the can. Replace the lid or make one. Use cans as rhythm instruments and shake to music.
Pigella’s Seedy Snack Mix
Mix the following ingredients together:
2 cups dried banana chips, dried apples, dried apricots quartered
1 cup oat, rice, corn, or bran cereal
1 cup peanuts
1/2 cup pumpkin or sunflower seeds
Combine all in a plastic bag, close and shake well. Store in an airtight container for up to one month. Makes about 4 cups.
Miss Pennypack’s Plantings
Tools and Supplies: Egg carton bottom; potting soil; easy to grow vegetable, flower or herb seeds.
Take an egg carton and some dirt
(Don’t worry this won’t be much work!)
Poke a small hole in the bottom of each cup
Fill with soil, three quarters way up.
In each little cup you plant a seed
Now water and sun is what you need.
Give your seeds a drink when they’re dry,
Watch them grow, reaching for the sky.
Fun Fingerplays – Eat an Apple
Eat an apple
(right hand to mouth)
Save the core
(close hand to make fist)
Plant the seeds
(dig at the ground)
And grow some more
(extend both arms)
Excerpted, with permission from Karen Rupprecht & Pam Minor’s
Months of Music: Music and Activities for the Year-Round
Listen to Feathered Friends in the audio player, below.