Examples from The Book of Echo Songs by John Feierabend:

·         Down by the Bay (Where the Watermelons Grow)

·         The Littlest Worm

·         I Met a Bear

·         Bill Grogan’s Goat

·         My Aunt Came Back

Examples from The Book of Call & Response by John Feierabend:

·         Miss Mary Mack

·         There Was an Old Woman

·         All Around the Kitchen

Examples:

·         Going on a Bear Hunt (Lion Hunt, Monster Hunt)

·         In a Dark, Dark Wood

Examples:

·         Aiken Drum

·         Going on a Picnic

Examples:

·         My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean: (Bend knees or stand up straight everything you hear the letter “B”)

·         Hi, My Name Is Joe

·         Here We Go Looby Loo (spooky loo, dino loo) (Wee Sing)

·         Go Bananas http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/banana.html

·         Going to Kentucky

·         Head and Shoulders (Baby, 1, 2, 3)

·         Ram Sam Sam

·         Mother Goonie Bird http://www.songsforteaching.com/drjean/goonybird.htm

·         Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree http://www.kididdles.com

·         Down By the Banks of the Hanky Panky http://www.kididdles.com

Examples:

·         Shakers

·         Jingle Bells

·         Ribbons

·         Scarves

·         Spoons

·         Kazoos

·         Rainstick

Examples:

·         Freeze

·         Bean bags

·         Musical chairs

·         Create your own instrument in five minutes

·         Kazoo (make up a song (Harry Potter), group sing-along (OSU Fight Song))

·         Create a chant

·         Learn a dance (example: a line dance)

·         Music memory

·         Mirror (both leader and kids do actions to music simultaneously, leader changes action and kids start doing that new action)

·         Echo (leader does a rhythm for four or eight beats, then kids repeat it)

·         Guess the sound

·         Name that tune

·         Improv game: Someone sings a song like “Happy Birthday” until someone else taps that person’s shoulder and takes over singing a new song related to the last one like “Hey, Hey It’s Your Birthday.” The similarity could be a word or a theme.

Examples:

·         Nature

·         Dance

·         Orchestra

·         Science of Sound

·         Sports

·         World Music

·         Instruments

·         Animals

·         Camp

·         Drums

·         Food