Erin Bouma's Recommended
Sites for Teachers of Young Learners of English
Whether you work in a classroom or with your own children or private pupils, you should think about bringing more music, puppet and mask activities and project work into your teaching to make working with kids more fun and effective.
Music/Teaching with Songs
www.supersimplesongs.com
These songs were created by Westerners teaching children in the Far East. Free downloads and a newsletter
www.nancymusic.com
80 free songs for downloading – most are original by a creative American songwriter/singer
www.songsforteaching.com
large listing of texts/audio samples, plus a newsletter with a free song each month
http://eleaston.com/music.html
A wealth of children’s songs, Scout songs, ESL, Folk Music and other categories
http://judyanddavid.com
The Children’s Music Archive online songbook directory
Mask Resources
www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/maskcrafts
Good selection of simple animal and ethnic mask patterns
http://www.kinderart.com/multic/cpapermask.shtml
Directions for making paper masks
www.aaps.k12.mi.us/thurston.art/thurston.art-2/masks
Elementary school African-style masks
http://webtech.cherokee.k12.ga.us/carmel-es/dkinzel/multicultural_masks.htm
Face masks made by students using a variety of materials
http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/huntington/kinderthumbnail/index.htm
Kindergarten-made Chinese-style masks
www.janbrett.com/activities_pages_masks.htm
An artist’s wonderful animal faces to print out
Puppet Resources
www.gis.net/~puppetco/
68 ways to make big puppets, scripts and other resources
http://chartier.rainbowwings.org/Kids/puppet.html
On-line workshop for “Anything can be a Puppet”
www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/toddler/
Simple finger puppets, folding paper, paper bag and paper plate designs to make
to be continued