Pinta tu mundo con música y baile /
Color Your World with Music and Dance
Books to Share
- Arroz con leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America by Lulu Delacre.
- Dancing Miranda / Baila, Miranda, baila by Diane de Anda.
- The Dancing Turtle: a Folktale from Brazil by Pleasant DeSpain.
- Delicious Hullabaloo / Pachanga deliciosa by Pat Mora.
- Diez Deditos and Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin America by José-Luis Orozco.
- Los discos de mi abuela by Eric Velasquez.
- The Flute Player / La flautista by Robyn Eversole.
Bulletin Board
Color Your World with Music
Cut out pictures of musical instruments and musicians and display them with sheet music. Sheet music is often found at used bookstores.
Name Tags
Copy and cut out the ballet slippers and drum patterns and give them to the children as they enter storytime.
Movement Activity
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Cabeza, hombros, caderas |
Head, Shoulders, Hips |
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(Translated into Spanish by Rose Treviño.) Cabeza Ojos |
Head Eyes |
Rhyme
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Trompo bailarín |
Dancing Top |
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(Tradicional) Baila que baila, Cuando tú bailas Zumba que zumba |
(Translated by Rose Treviño.) Dance, dance, When you dance Zumba, zumba |
Songs
Pimpón
(Children form a circle and sing the song using hand motions described in the song: washing their faces and hands, combing their hair, shaking hands, and in the last verse, opening and closing their fingers to show the twinkling stars and forming a pillow with their hands on the last line, “Good Night.”)
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(Tradicional) |
(Translated by Rose Treviño.) |
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Pimpón es un muñeco Pimpón es un muñeco Se desenreda el pelo Pimpón dame la mano Y cuando las estrellas |
Pimpón is a nice puppet Pimpón is a nice puppet Pimpón fixes his hair Pimpón shakes hands with me And when the stars are blinking |
Song and dance
Juanito Little Johnny
(In this delightful song, clap their hands and children shake, jiggle, and twist different parts of their body as they sing. Their whole bodies are in motion as the song progresses, from head to toe!)
| (Tradicional) | (Translated by Rose Treviño.) |
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Juanito cuando baila, Juanito cuando baila, Juanito cuando baila … la rodilla, dilla, dilla… |
When little Johnny dances, When little Johnny dances, When little Johnny dances… knee… |
| Spanish | Pronunication |
|---|---|
| dedito | theh THEE toh |
| mano | MAH noh |
| pie | pyeh |
| codo | COH thoh |
| rodilla | roh THEE ah |
| hombro | OHM broh |
| cadera | cah THERE ah |
| cabeza | cah VEH zah |
Movement Song
| La canción doodley-do | The Doodley-Do Song |
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| (Children sit in a circle and sing and clap to the rhythm.) | |
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Haridiasha, Haridiasha, Es muy fácil puedes hacerlo, me gusta mucho pero ninguno |
Please play for me I like the rest, Simplest thing there isn’t much to it, I like it so wherever I go, |
| Spanish | Pronunciation |
|---|---|
| Haridiasha | hah dee dee AH shaw |
| Es muy fácil puedes hacerlo, | ess mooy FAH sill PWETH ess ah SAIR low |
| solo tienes que aprenderlo, | SOH loh TYEH ness keh ah pren DARE loh |
| me gusta mucho pero ninguno | meh GOOSE tah MOO choh PEAR roh neen GOO noh |
| cómo el | COH mohl |
Craft
Kazoos
Materials
- Toilet paper rolls
- Tissue paper
- Wax paper
- Rubber bands
- Clear tape
- Construction paper
Directions
Children cover toilet paper roll with construction paper and place tissue paper over one end and wax paper over the other end and hold them in place with rubber bands. They then hum into the end of their kazoos with the wax paper.
Game
La comadre Juana
(The children form a circle. One girl is chosen to be “la comadre Juana” who will go to the center. When everybody sings “dance, dance, dance…,” she dances in the center of the circle for the rest of the song. Everyone claps their hands to the rhythm of the song. At the end of the song, “la comadre Juana” chooses another girl or boy to dance in the center of the circle. If a boy is chosen, the children sing “el compadre Juan.”)
Comadre Juana was in a dance, dance, dance,
and if she doesn’t dance,
I will splash her with water.
Dance, I want to see you dance.
Lifting her feet in the air,
Comadre Juana dances,
Leave her alone,
she dances alone
la, la , la ,la , la….
Guest Presenters
Invite the Parks and Recreation Department or a local dance studio to have a dance recital at your library.
Invite a local high school cheerleading squad to rehearse cheers at your library.
Audio Recordings
- “La bamba” on Lírica infantil, volumen 3 by José-Luis Orozco.
- “Mardi gras mambo” on Putumayo Presents Latin Playground.
Videos
- Honk. (17 minutes)
- Ritmo y blue. (50 minutes)
