This song is can address body awareness and fine motor skills. I love adding my ladybug castanets into the music play experience, or sometime I bring in my ladybug puppet. The glove of the puppet are the ladybug’s legs. The kids love this one! I also have other puppets and animal castanets, so I have lots of options when repurposing the song!
I love signing this song with children, so I quickly put together a short sign language tutorial for the song, enjoy!
Ladybug, Ladybug from Wade Richards on Vimeo.
Wade is a board-certified music therapist and one of the directors at Spectrum Creative Arts. He completed additional training programs in Orff-Schulwerk, Neurologic Music Therapy, and Performance Wellness. As a songwriter and creative writer, Wade has authored several music resource books for music therapy and music education.