Insects and Arachnids

“Spider Song” – Interactive Companion Lesson

Teachers and Parents!

Check out the companion lesson to our “Spider Song” and music video. The video is musically fun, educational, and filled with spider images and footage. Our lesson is interactive, editable, and printable in Google Doc. This lesson includes song lyrics, song download, questions, activities, crafts, coloring pages and resources for additional learning. Lesson is based on Common Core Standards in Science and Language Arts for K-2.
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Watch our music video featuring “Spider Song”

Dear Arachnid-Loving Friends,

Discover the fascinating world of spiders with me — in our music video,
“Spider Song”. Watch images and live footage of spiders and their webs, learn about their incredible weaving abilities, and sing along with me. After researching spiders and composing “Spider Song”, I feel awe and deep respect for this often misunderstood “carnivorous arachnid”.  Now I notice them everywhere!. I wonder if you will too.

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Announcing a new release! “Spider Song”

 

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Watch our new music video “I Almost Kissed a Butterfly”

Dear Insect-loving Friends,
I’m excited to introduce a new music video featuring my song,
“I Almost Kissed a Butterfly”.  Watch my hand motions in the chorus while you sing and move your hands along with me. Perhaps you can color your own butterfly to use. Or make up your own hand motions! Enjoy learning about butterfly and caterpillar behavior and then blow a kiss to the next butterfly you see in your neighborhood!
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I Wonder What I’ll See – Spider Webs!

Dear Friends,
Watch as I discover some small, delicate spider webs on my walk.
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Learn more about Painted Lady Butterflies

Hi Friends!
    As I mentioned in my previous blog post, millions of Painted Lady butterflies migrated through Southern California, USA during the week of March 11. It was an incredibly exciting event! I’m so glad that we had planted butterfly habitats in our yard and neighborhood. The flowering plants provided lots of food for the butetrflies on their long migration.
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I Almost Kissed a Painted Lady Butterfly!

Dear Friends,
    Thousands of PAINTED LADY BUTTERFLIES flew through my Southern California neighborhood on the morning of March 15th! I tried to kiss one, but they were much too fast! Some stopped in my backyard to feed.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Celebrate 2019 with our new animal music video

Watch and sing along with us! 
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Spider Song Video for Kids-Sneak Peek-Just in time for Halloween!

Watch my spider song-in-progress video:

Hello Friends.

I’m so excited!  My producer, Jim Coffey of Blue Vision Music, has finished the instrumentals for my spider song; and I want to give you  a sneak peek in time for Halloween, a holiday that celebrates spiders, spirits and other creatures of the night.
Jim has done an amazing job of matching my vision for this song, which included using string instruments that are plucked and played in ways that help the listener to imagine the work of a spider in its web.  

I look forward to recording my vocals in the studio soon and releasing my spider song as a single.  In the meantime, enjoy this sneak peek of a song that honors a weaver of silk and master designer of webs. My friends, meet the amazing spider! 

Weaving webs of song and connection,
Birdsong

P.S. Check out our video blog post about spider webs:
“Watch a Spider Construct Its Web”

Spider Web catches Birdsong’s attention. New spider song coming soon!

One of the things I love about foggy, dew-thick mornings is watching all the spider webs reveal themselves. What has caught your attention in nature today?

Dear Friends,

I have been mesmerized and mystified by spiders and their webs for years now. So much so that I’ve written a song about them, and it will be recorded and released in early 2017. Stay tuned! In the meantime, you can listen to a sneak preview of it in my spider song music video.

Your song-weaving friend,
Birdsong