I like doing themed sto­ry­times, but some­times it’s nice to be more casual and just read favourite new books. This song spin­ner keeps the spon­tane­ity going. It’s a photo cube that spins around, a sort of man­ual juke­box. We sing the song that goes with the pic­ture the spin­ner stops at. The pic­tures can swap in and out for just about any­thing but I like to use well-known songs that I’m unlikely to for­get the lyrics to. Here are four that work really well:

Happy Face for If You’re Happy and You Know It

Barn for Old Mac­Don­ald Had a Farm

Boy for Head, Shoul­ders, Knees and Toes

Dog for BINGO

There’s no limit to pic­tures that could go in the spin­ner, but some other picture/song com­bi­na­tions I like are a bus with The Wheels on the Bus, a hand for The Hokey Pokey, a spi­der for Itsy Bitsy Spi­der and a teapot for I’m a Lit­tle Teapot. The cen­tre is hol­low and the lid lifts right off so stor­ing extra pic­tures is easy as can be.

This week’s round-up is right here at Rov­ing­fid­dle­head Kidlit. The visual round-up is on Pin­ter­est.