Thanks Wellington!

Some fantastic gigs in Wellington - left Picton on 18th April and sung my way over - that's my red car in the queue!

 Here are some of the kids I sang to on the Ferry - I had to switch off the tele.....they didn't mind.

Moana Lodge is an awesome backpackers with friendly people and a fantastic view out over the sea and Mana Island - I walked around the sea lots of times

I taught Nicci and Gwyn to knit while I was there - Nicci is from the UK and Gwyn from Singapore...

Good fun at my Plimmerton concert

What beautiful butterflies.....

Thanks to Clyde Quay, Island Bay and Owhiro Bay Kindys, Rata St School and Montessori Children's House Miramar for such fun gigs at your place!

Thistle Hall  is a really lovely and extremely reasonable venue.  Thanks for coming and singing with me!  Here's a whole lot of pictures of us all having a good time...

Time for a lullaby....don't think anyone went to sleep though....

NZique is a very cool craft shop with HEAPS of different things - if you're looking for the perfect gift, head to Jackson St, Petone and you'll definitely find it.  Lovely small, appreciative crowd...

And then it was night time and the moon was almost full..

See ya next time Wellington!  Thanks for having me!

Fun at Plimmerton!

Wow, what an energetic crowd at Plimmerton today!!  You kids were great!  And the adults joining in too....singing, dancing, actions - phew!  A beautiful sunny day.  I think I enjoyed singing....You've Got Food on Ya Face the best!  Which song did you like the most? 

Wow, the facepainting was AWESOME!  Snakes and spiderman and flowers and butterflies.....you all looked AMAZING!! 

And we even made up the chorus to a Plimmerton song!
Plimmerton (clap clap clap)
By the sea (clap clap clap)
The place for me (clap clap clap)
and my family (clap clap clap)

Look forward to hearing more of it next time I'm here!!

Geepers! Time flies!

Let's see.....I've started writing a song about Bubbles....I spent a bit of time blowing and watching them to get ideas...I also thought about writing a Rainbow song....it will be based on ROYGBIV - and yelling the colours out.  Do you know what ROYGBIV means??  It's the first letters of the colours of the rainbow, in order!!  RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET.  Cool huh?

It was Purple Cake Day on 1st March and we had such a lot of FUN visiting schools and preschools seeing what they'd done - here's a photo of me in last year's PCD outfit!

I've been working on two School Songs and songs for a new Primary School Production - I love writing - do you?
I've been to the Plunket Fair and the Toy Library Fair here in Nelson and I'm going to work in Auckland in May for a couple of months - hopefully I'll see you there!!

More Mapua Fun!

We have finished at the Park - you should really come next year (well from 27th Dec this year actually) and we'll be there doing things, making things and generally having fun!  Here are some more photos!
Here we are trying to keep the tide back....eventually the tide won.....

We try not to injure too many people....but Josheph's toe looked pretty impressive....eeeouch!!!

BINGO!!!!  The whole family love this game AND the prizes!

Wow, there were some awesome creations at Clay Play!!  Nice one you guys, you made some coooooool things!

Next, cricket skills......CATCH!!

And in the evening....toasting marshmallows....yum, yum, yum!

........then the MUD GIRLS turned up!

Mapua Leisure Park

Over a month has gone by since my last post! I've been down to Oamaru, Dunedin and Christchurch for a week on a Christmas holiday, then back to run the holiday programme at the Mapua Leisure Park. Wow, what fun we've had!! We've made dragons, dinosaurs, played with clay, made lanterns, treasure maps, pancakes, dart, painted pet rocks, played all sorts of sports and games, special Friday the 13th scary masks, icky scones and had a FEAR FACTOR challenge.

We've also made rafts out of bamboo - here are some pictures of some of them.  The first one is the wnner!! Evie's was the only one that stayed afloat!!

Here's some pics of our scary masks on Friday 13th!

And here are our ICKY scones!!!!  Eeeewwww!  But they tasted GOOD!!

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!