I Have a Little Snowman

This is a song that the youngest kids love! It allows them to act out the building of a snowman and is silly at the end, so it creates a lot of giggles, which I love! You could do this with older kids and teach them Solfege (Do-Re-Mi) in the process. It starts on Do and ascends the scale slowly. At the end, it quickly goes back down the scale and it's fabulous practice for getting their Solfege hands signs straight. Here is a youtube video that shows the hands signs for the Solfege scale if you would like to learn them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pq9s9USmI . Here are the lyrics to this song along with the solfege symbols that correlate:


I have a little snowman. He is so fat and round.
Do                                            Re
I made him from a snowball I rolled upon the ground.
  Mi                                               Fa
I gave him eyes, a nose, a mouth, a nice warm scarf of red.
  Sol                                                         La
I put some buttons on his coat and a hat upon his head.
  Ti                                                             Do
Slowly, slowly melts the snowman!
Do Ti  La Sol Fa    Mi Re   Do

Play this audio file to hear how the song goes:


For the younger kids, here are the actions for the song: Start kneeling on the ground and form into a little ball. For each step up the scale get a little taller until finally at the end you are standing up straight with your arms in the sky for greater height. On the last line, melt from your highest height back down into the tiny ball you started with. Do this several times and experiment with tempos (fast and slow). I hope you have fun with this song!