Thursday, July 29, 2010

Choose and Review - Title Toss


Title Toss makes a fun singing time, however it takes a little work to prepare. But then it can live in the closet and be pulled out when you have extra time or when you've had one of those weeks and need to use something you've already prepared. I believe in being prepared for one of those weeks!

Just type the titles of MANY songs into the computer. Adjust the fonts and sizes and then print the titles out. Cut them out and randomly paste them onto a poster board. I say random, but you should mix the rest songs or wiggle songs in throughout the other titles. I also used appropriate stickers to enhance the poster a bit. When you're ready for singing time, put the poster on the floor and hand a child a beanbag. Invite them to toss the beanbag to choose a song to sing. You can adjust the tossing distance according to age or ability.

The only problem with this activity is that it might take the pianist some time to look up the page number of the song. This won't bother an experienced pianist because they often remember where the songs are and can find them quickly. But, to make it easier, you could copy the index in the songbook and have it available so that they don't have to keep flipping to the back of the book to look things up. Or, make an alphabetical list with the page numbers and keep it with the poster.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

This would be great to do with 'song review'. My pianist already has her songs in a seperate binder for easier access! Thanks for the idea! It will be used!

Unknown said...

This is a GREAT idea! I'm sure the kids are gonna LOVE this. Thank you for all you do to help ME.

Heather {Healthy Family Cookin} said...

What a wonderful idea! I love your blog! Full of great ideas! Thanks so much for sharing them!

Lynn said...

Love it! Now I have to get busy typing up songs in different fonts!

thanks for sharing this great idea!

Unknown said...

I love this idea!

Anonymous said...

Wordle.com allows you to make "word clouds" automatically. That might be worth a try.

Paula -- CutieFruity said...

I know I'm late to the party, but I am having fun looking at your site today. I love this idea! I would just pencil the number of the song next to the title really small.

Hayley and Josh said...

Here's an idea... on your poster put the page number with each song, then you can just tell your piano player what page it is!

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