Lyrics
(Folk song)
I’m stretching very tall.
And now I’m very small.
Now tall, now small,
Now I’m a tiny ball.
Motions
Start by sitting or squatting. Each time you sing “tall,” stand and reach up. Each time you sing “small,” squat down. “Tiny ball” = squat and put your arms around your legs
See also
- Activity: motions
- Harmony: I, V
- Melody: ascending & descending major pentascale / high & low, up & down / paper xylophones
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Scale: pentachord
- Timbre: Boomwhackers
- Tones: drmfs
- Source: Wee Sing Children’s Songs and Fingerplays,Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1979
YouTube
- Printable & Digital Visual
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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