Drip, Drop

This is activity features a traditional children's song, but adds body percussion with a simple chant introduction and coda.

Sing the song, Drip, Drop/It's Raining, It's Pouring, with your child found below. As you sing, pat your legs alternately with your hands keeping a steady beat as show here:

Drip - left hand pat

Drop - right hand pat

Continue the steady beat leg pats throughout the song.

This activity reinforces the musical concept of steady beat while singing. It also includes rhyming words which is an reading/literacy concept that the children learn in preschool.

If you have a child that attends or have attended Grove Park or Northside Preschool, then they will learn this activity during music class in the Spring (March or April). Ask them to share it with you at home.