Noodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for Kids
Noodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for Kids

Noodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for Kids

Dan Saks

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Noodle Loaf is an interactive music education podcast for kids that has received the Common Sense Media Selection seal for creating high quality kids content. Episodes contain fun music for kids, movement activities, rhythm games and plenty of learning through play! The show is created by musician, early childhood music educator and best selling children's book author, Dan Saks.

Recent Episodes

Sounds Are Storying
NOV 26, 2025
Sounds Are Storying
It's that time of year again! It's also ALMOST that time of year again. Two great reasons to do some a cappella style vocal jamming using the names of different pasta shapes. What better way to learn the art of part singing? Here is more information about what musical fun for the whole family lies within this episode: ✪ We begin with a Vocal Jam, which will turn your family into a pasta themed a cappella group. It is literally the reason you had kids. ✪ Next up, we're singing an Echo Song called Luis the Duck. It is either most likely total nonsense, unless it isn't in which case it contains all of humanities combined wisdom. ✪ Then we play Name That Tune, and listen as the sounds combine to tell a story. I'll play a sound, you try to name it! ✪ A fourth game! Yup! It's Jam Along, where you get to bang on things that won't get you in trouble for banging on them. It's a rhythm game about funkiness! We hope you enjoy our music and games for pre-k, kindergarten and all little kids! It's like a music lesson made out of nothing but sound waves and dreams. ✪✪✪ CHECK OUT BOOKS BY DAN SAKS: https://bookshop.org/shop/DanSaks ✪✪✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠ ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at ⁠⁠⁠⁠noodleloaf.threadless.com⁠⁠⁠⁠. ✪ Join the Patreon Find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠noodleloaf.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ or write to us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠ 01:38 Vocal Jam 05:28 Echo Song - Luis the Duck 08:32 Name That Sound 12:06 Jam Along
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16 MIN
Introducing: Big Emotions - Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings
OCT 23, 2025
Introducing: Big Emotions - Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings
Noodle Loaf is excited to share a recent episode of the Kids Listen podcast Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings featuring Noodle Loaf and our friends at Dr. Friendtastic and Power Dog Adventures. The episode is hosted by Abbe Opher & Kelly MacBride of Koala Kids. Each episode in the series gives you a taste of some other great kids shows to check out, and explore what it means to be human! "You can't beat that with a bat" - Black Sheep (a group that makes me feel joyful). Give it a listen and if you want to hear more, click this right here. ---- Welcome back to Big Emotions! This week we’re thinking about ourselves in a group, or what it feels like when we strike out on our own. We’ll discover how belonging means being part of a group that accepts and values you, whereas independence is about finding your own way, making your own choices, and standing on your own two feet. In this episode, we explore how these two feelings, while different, are deeply connected - and how you can both fit in and stand out. From family to friends to magical creatures, our stories will show you how you can find your place while staying true to yourself! Contributing podcasts in this episode: Noodle Loaf • Power Dog Adventures • Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic  Hosts: Abbe Opher & Kelly MacBride of Koala Kids PDF Activity Sheet for SEL  Check out the music in each episode  About this series: Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups is a 7-part audio adventure where creators from the Kids Listen community come together to explore feelings in all their shapes and sizes. Each episode pairs two related emotions, sharing original clips and reflections to help kids (and grownups!) understand, name, and navigate their feelings. Follow Kids Listen on Instagram and LinkedIn
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27 MIN
Armpitity
SEP 25, 2025
Armpitity
Welcome back to another episode filled with interactive music games delightfulness. Rhythm, pitch and movement are going to occupy your next ten minutes so take out your hair and put in your teeth for Noodle Loaf! Sorry, I'm never sure what to write here. It says "episode description." Maybe I should be more specific? Ok, this episode will contain the following opportunities for creative expression: ✪ We begin with the Rhyme Time, a rhyming game that develops phonological awareness by asking you to find a rhyme for "marzipan." You got this Noodlinos! ✪ Next up, we're singing an Echo Song called We Share This Neighborhood. It is inspired by a board book by Dan Saks of the same name. What are some things you share in your neighborhood? A school? A waterfront? A bike share? Let me know! ✪ We wrap it up with a Time to Move in which a magic bubble has found its way into your body. Watch it travel through your body, causing your arms, legs, and feet to float around all beautiful like. You look magical. We hope you enjoy our music and games for pre-k, kindergarten and all little kids! It's like a music lesson if your music teacher was named Dan. ✪✪✪ CHECK OUT BOOKS BY DAN SAKS: https://bookshop.org/shop/DanSaks ✪✪✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at ⁠⁠⁠noodleloaf.threadless.com⁠⁠⁠. Find us on ⁠⁠⁠noodleloaf.com⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ or write to us at ⁠⁠⁠[email protected] 01:30 Rhyme Time 03:50 Echo Song - We Share This Neighborhood 07:50 Time to Move - Magic Bubble
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11 MIN
That's The Riff with Ziggy Marley
JUL 30, 2025
That's The Riff with Ziggy Marley
I hope you have your goofin' hat on because we are diving in the deep end of the joyous music giggle pool and we're gonna need hats? If you say so! Oh, yeah, also...Ziggy Marley is on this episode! He stopped by Noodle Loaf to help show how easy and fun it is to make up songs about just about anything, and tell us about his new book Pajammin'. We hope you like pajammin' too! ✪ We begin with the Trivia where you are asked to guess if a word is either a style of music or clothes. Jazz or Jorts. Jazzorjorts. Jazzercising in Jorts may lead to chafing. ✪ Next up, we talk to Ziggy Marley about his new book, Pajammin' and get the inside scoop on making up songs on the fly. This leads into a rousing round of KaraYOUke where you get to try out making up songs based on words that connect to his book. ✪ This episode's Echo Song is called Every Time That I Sneeze. It is about how your host Dan Saks can create hit songs with his involuntary body sounds. It is better than that makes it sound? We hope you enjoy our music and games for pre-k, kindergarten and all little kids! It's like a music lesson if your music teacher was Ziggy Marley. ✪✪✪ CHECK OUT BOOKS BY DAN SAKS: https://bookshop.org/shop/DanSaks ✪✪✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ or ⁠Spotify⁠ ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at ⁠⁠noodleloaf.threadless.com⁠⁠. Find us on ⁠⁠noodleloaf.com⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ or write to us at ⁠⁠[email protected]
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15 MIN