Brand New Shoes

I often get asked how I come up with songs. Well here's how my Brand New Shoes song happened! I was at a Fair, looking through the second hand clothing, when I saw a cute little boy about 18months old, walking around in a pair of gumboots. He had his legs straight and was lifting them up really high as he stomped about. I smiled at his mum and said "how cute!" and she said "it's his first pair of real shoes".

On my way home in the car, I started thinking about it and started singing and came up with the chorus "New shoes, who's shoes?, my shoes, two shoes; red, yellow, orange, green or any colour in between; new shoes, that I choose". The rest of the song came as I imagined what small children would like to do in their shoes and how it would make them feel.

It's on my "i've got a dinosaur in my back yard" CD and you can listen to the song here http://songs4kids.co.nz/cds.html

See if you can come up with some rhyming words like the ones I use in the song, then you can make up your own song! It doesn't have to be about shoes, it could be about ANYTHING!

FRESH FM KATH BEE FOR KIDS!

Yep it's here! My new radio programme on Fresh FM, Nelson-Tasman 104.8
Golden Bay 95.0 Blenheim 88.9 and streaming live here http://www.freshfm.net/
7.10am Saturdays and 8.10am Sundays. For a fun and tuneful way to start your weekend days, listen in to "Kath Bee for Kids"! On Sundays the 'Great Big Radio Show' starts at 7am, with Suzy Cato, so tune in early! On Saturdays you can catch Jumping Jellybeans with Peter Weatherall Jumping Jellybeans Radio Show is educational songs and stories for children presented by Red, Yellow, Green and Blue: the Jumping Jellybeans and Sundays at 6.40am - perfect if you're an early riser! Catch ya then!