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The more we have used the method, the more it has become a part of our everyday life. The children now make their own suggestions about songs and rhymes to be drawn. It’s great that this activity can also be participated by children who find it difficult to participate in other shared activities and express themselves. With these children, experiences of success with the method are particularly common, as there is no ‘correct end result’.

There is magic in songdrawing – the children concentrate on drawing, and the hustle and bustle is gone.

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As the national curriculum develops, the boundaries between different subjects become blurred and learning becomes integrated. Songdrawing fits well into this philosophy – I use the method in music, art, english, and science classes.

In my experience, songdrawing also supports the development of speech production. For a child who finds it difficult to produce speech sounds, drawing works as support for the child’s spoken expression, both sung, told and rhymed.

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For me and my families, songdrawing is much more than just practising pen use and following drawings. We often draw shapes in their air with our hands, rhythm sticks and mallets, or move around the room creating shapes. We can draw the songs with fingers, balls, or paintbrishes on various parts of the body, or in the air with scarves or ribbons.

We have experiences some wonderful moments when the parents have acted as “song boards” and the children have drawn on them!

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After training, the method found its way naturally into my own work. In our morning circles, for instance, I use the songs The Sun, Clouds and the Sun, and Raindrops, as we look at the weather outside. This is the high point of the morning circle for many children. In the morning circle, we often meet the “hedgehog” and we draw as many spikes as there are children present.

It has been wonderful to notice how excited the children are and how they calm down and concentrate on the songdrawing activity.

I have found the possibilities for using this method to be almost endless, when you as an adult have the courage to throw yourself into the moment.

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