If you have toddlers or babies then the Playsongs range of books and CD’s by Sheena Roberts are amazing. Edward and Euan have had so much fun over the last few weeks reviewing these. Each book has a CD in the back to accompany reading, singing and dancing along. The 3 books are Playsongs, Sleepytime Playsongs, Livelytime Playsongs. The books have a story you can read and then all the words so you can sing along to the songs. This is great as it helps promote reading skills at such and early age.
Playsongs
Playsongs is great for babies and is full or nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers. The book is fab not only does it have the CD with songs on, it has the words, actions and role play ideas to make it even more fun. There are lots of ideas in there as well to help stimulate your babies and toddlers. The songs are split into several categories. I wont tell you a full list but some categories are Peeakabo games, Ticklers, Washing and dressing, Fingerplays. I found the prompts for the actions are fab I was always clueless what I was supposed to be doing as the parent. This book is more about the songs and words than a nice picture book for the kids. It all about creating actions and role play.
Livelytime Playsongs
Livelytime Playsongs, well the title speaks for itself. This book has great bright pictures in and lots of lively playtime songs. It has the CD that you can sing along to and again the songs are in categories. The categories are Wake Up, Dressing, Out and About, Playgroup, Shopping, Tea Time, Bed Time, Story time. And example of some songs and our favourites. Ring a ring a roses, I spy with my little eye, pat-a-cake. There are 29 songs in total. Like with playsongs it tells you the actions so you can teach the children as they grown and learn.
Sleepytime Playsongs
The sleepy time songs are great for bedtime routines they are not jut sleepy songs but the full routine. The categories are Time to wake, Nappy Time, Play Time, Midday, Out of Doors, Bath Time, Massage and Lullaby. AS you can see they cover the full day not just bedtime. We love some of the bath time songs. Like with the other books there are also prompts on actions you can do to make it more fun and interactive with your child.
We have had so much fun with these books and the fun just get better and better as the boys grow. These are books and songs that will grow with your children. You will go from singing and doing the actions to them joining in and then them singing along with you as well. These are such a great buy for parents or as a gift to a family you know.
These look lovely for little ones, I think it might actually be perfect for my little boy he loves music and singing.
This looks great for kids, i would have loved this back then x
This sounds like its great for children, my little boy would love it
I love how there is a lullaby for every routine. I bet the bath time one would be lovely xx
This looks like the perfect present for a little one!
This is great – when I was a kid my dad used to bring me home the little story teller series – I had every single one of them and it had a book and a tape….best thing I ever had!
This is so good for kids and I like the idea of sleep songs, my nephew could do with those x
I don’t have kids (yet!) but I love listen to their music. I think it’s so much better than songs for adults that are full of suffering, cruelty and… dumb texts! I’d love to listen to all these CDs.
How cute! These CDs look fantastic. If my kids were smaller, I’m sure they’d love them.
This is so great for young kids! I love that there are different songs for all different times of the days and different needs. So perfect!
This is so good, especially the sleep songs. Sending to a friend!
These would be a lovely gifts for little ones for any occasions! Thank you dear!
Awww, I bet this is adorable! I will have to let my friends with little ones know about Playsongs.
My nephews would surely enjoy this! Maybe I’ll get them an extra Christmas gift 🙂
These look so cute for little kids. I wish I would have known about these before I did my Christmas shopping
Music is great for children to grow up listening.Thanks for sharing such an useful product.A great gift idea too.
This could be a perfect gift for the little ones. Thanks for sharing the review with us!
I think kids learn so quickly when things are set to music. This is great.