Noodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for Kids
Dan Saks
117 episodes
Noodle Loaf is an interactive music education podcast for kids that has received the Common Sense Media Selection seal for creating high quality kids content. Episodes contain fun music for kids, movement activities, rhythm games and plenty of learning through play! The show is created by musician, early childhood music educator and best selling children's book author, Dan Saks.
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Peanut Butter Bear Fur
Oh what fun we will have together in this episode. We've got movement, active listening, art, singing and lots...and...lots...of kazoo music. ✪ The first game is a Name That Tune with the promised kazoo playing. ✪…
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Sounds Are Storying
It's that time of year again! It's also ALMOST that time of year again. Two great reasons to do some a cappella style vocal jamming using the names of different pasta shapes. What better way to learn the art of part…
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Introducing: Big Emotions - Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings
Noodle Loaf is excited to share a recent episode of the Kids Listen podcast Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings featuring Noodle Loaf and our friends at Dr. Friendtastic and Power Dog Adventures. The…
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Armpitity
Welcome back to another episode filled with interactive music games delightfulness. Rhythm, pitch and movement are going to occupy your next ten minutes so take out your hair and put in your teeth for Noodle Loaf!…
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That's The Riff with Ziggy Marley
I hope you have your goofin' hat on because we are diving in the deep end of the joyous music giggle pool and we're gonna need hats? If you say so! Oh, yeah, also...Ziggy Marley is on this episode! He stopped by Noodle…
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Not a Normal Cat
New Episode! New Book! Singing! Storytelling! Songwriting! Exclamation Points!!! This surprise episode drop is in celebration of Dan's new book, We Share This Earth. It's a rhyming book with beautiful illustrations…
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Breezes Blowing
There's never a bad time to sing about Autumn and learn some Spanish but there are particularly good times, and one of those is now. ✪ We begin with a Clap It Back song in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. We use the…
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No Birds To Describe You
We are celebrating the release of Dan's new book We Share This School by getting together to sing and rhyme and clap along with a new episode of Noodle Loaf! Our Clap It Back this week unusually unusual, even by our…
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The 100th Episode Song Share Celebration
THIS IS OUR 100TH EPISODE! If it is your first time listening I suggest starting with a different episode. If it is your 100th time listening then hooray for us! To celebrate this milestone, we turn the mic around to…
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Working Together
Anyone cane name a problem, but can you name a solution? Anyone can make a doodle, but can you make up a song about yours? Press play and find out! Our Echo Song this week is We Can Fix It, a song that makes the case…
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Beach Bird
It's new album week! And it is also AAPI month! So much to celebrate, such a good time. Our Echo Song this week is I Got a Bicycle, an ode to two wheels and our planet. This is a Noodlino favorite song that made it on…
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Moon Dust
Dinosaur songs, truck stories and even an ode to napkins. Something for everyone! (Especially people that like music and games) This Clap It Back manages to squeeze in tributes to a few of the many celebrations…
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Feeling So Serene
We won't let all these April Fools hoaxes keep us from having some interactive educational music based fun! A delightful Clap It Back about rainbows and love (dedicated to the governments of Texas and Florida.)…
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Really Old Radios
Come for the eyeball dance, stay for the tongue twister song. It's about a very well built boat built by billions of babies. Babies can't build boats you say? Can so, you just need one billion of them. This show is…
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Pants Pants Pants
In today's episode we question our pants, celebrate the enormous gifts of James Baldwin and work together to make up a story about a creature who lives in a tree. Clearly a certain streaming service should have put…
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Onomatopeia
Music people! You have arrived just in time to make rhymes, sing songs and do some creative movement games all with your host in chief, Dan Saks. Today's episode raises a glass to celebrating Autism Awareness month way…
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Sticky Sneaker Baby Bump
Lots to sing and dance about today like salty soups, sticky sneaks and bananas. Flying bananas that is. So warm up your larynxes and press play on another episode of play based music education for humans. The kids…
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Thingamabob
The best thing about chores is identifying the sound they make using your ears. It's downhill from there BUT with some groovy tunes on, any chore becomes a dance party. Amiright? Except duvet related chores, those are…
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Frogger Than Frogway
Things are really starting to happen round here. Things are getting cooking. Rubber is meeting road. Flubber is eating toad. Let's goooooo music fun and games for kids and grown growns!!! (now hiring people who know…
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Whippledooders
Kids will dig this play based rhyme infused educational music filled podcast as much as you enjoyed this keyword laden introductory sentence. This episode begins with a Rhyme Time game about kindness. Can you figure…
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From The Tap
Go on, open up the packet. What's inside? 10 minutes of interactive music education games for children?? Fantastic! Here are the games on today's show: First up a Clap It Back game called "What's On The Menu" I say…
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Magic Gloves
Great Bowls of Groovy Gemelli Noodlinos! It's a new Noodle Loaf noodlesode! Too much? Ok, I'll tone it down. Press play for fun music and games for kids. Thank you. First up a special edition of our Trivia game called…
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Oodles of Balloons
You won't learn to spell in today's episode, but you may learn to mispronounce the word "barber." You will also learn how to plan for special occasions. In other words you will learn MOST of the most important things.…
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Hello Donkey Potato
I am introducing a new episode titling concept that is akin to how certain race horses are named. See, this episode contains pieces of previous episodes as well as new material. Thus, the episode title pays homage to…
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Duck Truck Goose - Encore
Sorry kids, the song about the history of Kraftwerk didn't make the final edit but don't fret, there is a clapping game about robots. There is also a Western folk song and opportunities to make use of your ears and…
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Kablamski
It's getting hot in here, so plant some carrot seeds. I am getting so hot, I'm gonna plant some carrot seeeeds. There's a song about planting carrot seeds in this episode and those are not the lyrics. We don't do…
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Spaghetti Birds
Warm up your vocals with a round of singing slide. Sing a party plan with our echo song. Name some sounds. And then take some time for yourself, because you deserve it. Singing Slide is based on a vocal warm up game…
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Kangaroo Water Park
If you like smoothies then you'll love this new episode of Noodle Loaf. It's got mangoes (rhythm games), bananas (singing) and freshly squeezed orange juice (mad-lib style story games). Press play and take a gulp! Our…
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Don't Forget Goofin' with Tracy Bonham
Songs about robots, subways and feeling grateful for scientists! This episode has the very special guest, Tracy Bonham & Melodeon Music House, plus lots of learning about music through play. ✪ First Up, Time To Move -…
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Dinosaurs and Dumplings
Music and learning, singing and goofing. Enter here for children's songs about dinosaurs and dumplings. But fair warning, you may be asked to rhyme something with "Cilantro." If you're comfortable with that possibility…
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Feeling for Mangoes
Press play and brace yourself for some music games, a song about fruits and April Fools jokes aplenty. We'll play a drawing game called Guided Doodling where you will doodle a mystery drawing based on the narrated…
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Special Drums Special Rhythms
Fun. Fun Music. Fun Music For Kids. Fun Music For Kids And Their Grown Growns. Fun Music For Kids And Their Grown Growns That Involves Saying The Names of Birds Wrong. i.e. Curdnal. Pretty Birdies - Echo Song - A…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Echo Songs, Vol. 1 OUT NOW
Fans of children's music that adults love too rejoice! Noodle Loaf has just released the album Echo Songs, Vol. 1, a collection of 20 Noodlino favorite repeat-after-me style songs as heard on the podcast for…
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Good Jam
Hey Noodlinos! Music activities for kids abound in this here podcast installment of the mighty Noodle Loaf show. So grab some toast and a kid (preferably your own) be it a preschooler, a kindergartener or even a big…
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Space Dancing
Gather up your toddlers, kindergarteners, elementary aged children and forever young grown ups for some singing, moving and good old fashioned trivia for kids. We continue our Black History celebration on this episode…
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Pedal On!
We continue celebrating Black History Month on our kids podcast by channeling the great tradition of Civil Rights songs, with a song about James Baldwin for kids and a song about the Black sports hero Major Taylor.…
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Little Purple Wildflowers
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new EP from Noodle Loaf! In honor of MLK's birthday and Black History Month, Noodle Loaf has released an album of five Black History songs for kids. Each is an original echo…
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Sounds Like Thunder
Monday Soup, Tuesday Soup, Wednesday Soup, Thursday Soup, Friday Soup, Saturday Soup, Sunday...Nachos! Yes, finally a days of the week song for kids that is about soup. Because who said music activities for kids can't…
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Sustainable Beats
You don't get to clean up if you don't make a mess. So go make a mess and then sing along with our clean up song for kids. That's an order! PLUS we'll use our ears to name mystery sounds and use our mouths to make…
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Going With The Flow
A bit of a theme going on in this one. Who improvises? Who does not? What does improvise mean? What does amprovise mean? As far as I know, it does not mean anything. Nonetheless this episode is fun and educational and…
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Like an Overjoyed Seal
To play this music activity for kids filled podcast you will need a body, a head, paper and crayons or something like crayons, like pencils. And some time. And a desire to have fun. That's more or less it. You'll see.…
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Totopos y Popotes
Today's song combines the power of growth mindset affirmations with the joy music fundamentals! Specifically solfege. I think you're going to like it. You'll also enjoy our Hispanic Heritage Month game "Instrument or…
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Funky Shades
Sure, I could use this space here to explain photosynthesis but wouldn't you rather learn about it via clapping? I would. And so would your child. Which is why this episode has a song explaining photosynthesis. And…
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Juggling Tambourines
This episode contains gratuitous goofiness and clandestine education. If you're not careful you may find yourself giggling and learning in equal measure. Proceed with caution. Fun children's song that parents will love…
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Olive Fun
Music can be used to learn things besides music. Or so I've been told. Today we test that hypothesis to see if the kids in our midst can retain essential general trivia like the fact that Michael Bolton's birth name…
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Peck of Pumpkin Poodle
A little extra noodle in our loaf this go round to keep your family singing, rhyming, jamming and goofin’. Clap it Back - We begin with a rhythm song for kids called Weird Picnic. This clapping game develops rhythmic…
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Passin' and Tappin'
We've got new games, we've got old games, but that's not all, we've also got bird calls. So keep on your all day pajamas, cancel your bear salon appointment and smash that play button because we’ve got children’s songs…
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Hot Beets
Hey Noodlinos! Have you checked out our new YouTube channel yet? We're making vids inspired by the music games you know and love. Check it out here! These videos are great for school brain breaks, car rides and dentist…
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Periwinkle with Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear
You shared photos of forts with us. We wrote a rhythm game about fortographs. Balls in your court Noodlinos! Lots of fun on this show featuring contributions from special guests Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and Piera…
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Torte in a Fort
Two truths and a lie. True tooths and a fly. Few sleuths in a sty etc. etc. Red Herrings abound in this early April release. Catch them, or be caught! The cool thing about you is that you can pretty much make a song…
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