Fruit, Nuts & Seeds with Bangers & Smash!

This June, we’ve had an utterly fruiticious time singing about Fruit, Nuts & Seeds at Bangers & Smash!

Photo by Nick Sarro on Unsplash

Kitty has continued to host weekly Zoom sessions for:

  • nurseries providing support for families unable to attend

  • groups of families and friends

Sessions have had anything from one to 20 families logging in. Prize for the furthest afield goes to Luke and Arthur in Lancashire!

In addition, two regular Bangers & Smash nurseries have asked Kitty to restart music sessions – online for the time being – and it’s been great seeing everyone again after such a long break.

Fruit, Nuts & Seeds

Children, staff and families have enjoyed:

  • identifying dried fruit, nuts and seeds in bowls

  • looking at a giant nut from Africa

  • singing:

    • I Had A Little Nut Tree

    • Feed The Birds

    • Oranges & Lemons

    • Apples & Bananas

  • playing claves, shakers, xylophones and bells

  • choosing different fruits from a bowl and putting their names together to create and clap word rhythms

  • showing Kitty fruit, nuts and seeds from their own homes and nurseries

  • thinking about birds and animals that like to eat fruit, nuts and seeds

  • pretending to mix and bake a cake while listening to Kitty singing Everyone’s A Fruit & Nut Cake to the tune of Tchaikovsky’s Danse Des Mirlitons

  • dancing to:

    • Banana Phone by Raffi

    • Peanut Vendor and Banana, Banana, Banana by the Kew Park Mento Band

Kitty has made a video of some of this month’s songs and activities so that parents and staff can enjoy them again with the children. There’s also information on next month’s sessions so check it out below!

Under the Willow

It’s been lovely to see music resume at Under the Willow – with Kitty hosting weekly Zoom sessions for:

  • Under-2s

  • 2-3-year-olds

  • Preschoolers

This term’s Project is Professions with three sessions in June on:

  • Health

  • Transport

Children and staff have enjoyed:

  • singing:

    • Miss Polly Had A Dolly

    • Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

    • Three Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed

    • Going To The Doctor’s

    • Twinkle, Twinkle, Chocolate Bar (about a Mum who drives a racing car!)

    • The Wheels On The Bus

    • Puffer Train

    • Bangers & Smash original, If You Could Be The Driver

  • looking at pictures of:

    • a doctor with a stethoscope

    • a doctor taking someone’s pulse

  • finding their pulses and tapping their hearts at different speeds to Bangers & Smash original, Here’s my Heart

  • looking at a toy aeroplane, helicopter and speed boat

  • listening to a train whistle

  • playing claves to Little Red Wagon by Raffi

In addition, Kitty has introduced Preschoolers to If I Were Not What I Am Now (based on the vaudeville song, If I Were Not Upon The Stage) in which children sing about doing different jobs – so far, a doctor and an ambulance driver.

Online music sessions with Bangers & Smash

If you’d like to join one of our online music sessions, please visit the Bangers & Smash shop to book your place.

If you’re a parent, carer, childcare provider or arts setting and would like to discuss setting up one or more bespoke online music sessions, please get in touch here.