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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

Compiled by Erin Bouma