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GuideNotes™ SongSolving Tools:
Multitool Songs

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Created for use at multiple points of the day,Multitool Songs are often songs you can modify to fit the environment, activity, child's interest or need. 

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Reflective

Use to begin and end, open and close an activity, arrive and depart, etc. 

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CodeVerb™

Zipper songs that can match special interest of group or child. Provide a little extra motivation to participate. This concept was created while parenting my neurodivergent children.

Also in Social Emotional Songs 

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Zipper

 Replace words or phrases to meet needs. You can change nouns, verbs, places, ideas. The zipper part is often shown in bold with suggestions below.

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Unicorns

These songs gallop in to manage group energy and attention, to shift or gain focus or to use time together. 

These often include movement or mindful tools.

Also in Social Emoitional Songs

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Noun & Verb

Zipper songs that elicit action. Modify objects, body parts, locations, actions or movements to meet your needs. 

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Energy & Attention

Unicorns that help focus energy & attention​.

These often include movement or mindful tools.

Also in Social Emotional Songs

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A Circle Doesn't Have an End
I Carry You in my Heart
A Social-Emotional Song for ending time together or leave-taking. Has movement.
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A Winter Beat
A Christmas Beat
This is a winter song that emphasizes counting 1-2-3, highlighting three-sylable items, ideas, activities etc. things like jingle bells, evergreen, falling snow. Some may sing as a "Christmas Beat".
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After the Rain Comes the Rainbow
A Sensory Experience with Laughter and Joy and a Beautiful Piece of Fabric
Song sung with Frolic's Rainbow, with sensory input. Sung to end a time together, giving calmness and sensory input.
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All Aboard Train Song
A song to cue children to move together and about being on a train, with a little story to play along about going up a mountain!
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All Done
Time to Put Away
Transition song. Sing at the end of an activity. Eversong- Multi-tool, Zipper. This song flexes to match to the activity being finished or item child is finished using, such as playing time, building time, puzzle time, crafting time, etc.
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All Hail (The Leader)
Written for a nautical themed camp and used for unifying and quieting, getting energy up, then settling. Insert title of person who has to speak: use name or title: Teacher, Leader, GuideNote, attention getting Eversong for a person.
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All the Different Feelings are Okay
Song validating feelings in all sorts. Social- emotional: All feelings are okay. They get mixed up. We can work to sort them out.
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All the Leaves are Changing
Fall song with leaves changing, naming colors of leaves
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Another Day
Say Goodbye to Them and Say Hello to Me,
Song for being dropped off and picked up. Version for parent and caregiver. Reflective GuideNote
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April Showers Bring May Flowers
Song about why rain is a benefit and leads to flowers.
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Around the Sun, a Birthday Song
Birthday Song
A birthday song that celebrates another time around the sun.
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Bee Vomit
Song about that special substance that bees make: Honey!
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A sticker image of Singer-songwriter Kathryn Para Kathryn Para dressed as Frolic the Fox, standing with one leg up and holding a dark brown ukulele. She is looking up to her right side dreamily.
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