Favorite Singing Games for Lower Elementary

Hi everyone, this is Sue! In my last post I shared games for upper elementary students. Below I have shared of my students' favorites in the lower elementary



Las Estatues De Marfil


Collected from Bob Walser


(a few notes)

• A great free movement in space activity as well as improvisation
• Accessable multicultural song for young children
• Even if you only have 1 minute for a game this works well-you can still get in several turns!

 Link to Las Estatues notation

In A Circle Dance Now

Collected from Jos Wytok

(a few notes)

• A wonderful example and physical practice of AB form
• A section is improvised, the B section is great for working together as one group
• Is in do pentachord-kids may be young but need to be singing 1/2 steps in their early music experiences as well.

Link to In a Circle Notation




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Cobbler, Cobbler

Ann Kay/Leigh Ann Garner

(a few notes)

• This variant of the song also is out of the tritone and uses 1/2 steps in appropriate places early music experiences
• Great practice for steady beat
• The original game is for shoe passing-seriously? K and Grade 1?  LeighAnn Garner modified it to just keeping the steady beat with the shoe and only passing it on the word 'eight'
• The other BRILLIANT thing she did was to NOT have the kids use their own shoes (ever try to get shoes back on a bunch of Kinders and first graders? *shudder*)
• I used my old shoes (the ones that were not even worth donating) Collect them from parents and let the fun begin!
• BTW-These shoes work great for upper grade shoe games as well-(avoids that pleasant 'odor' from growing kids)

Link to Cobbler Cobbler