We have been waiting to do this song for a while, but the recent heatwave here in the UK has made it too hot to do in these tigery onesies! Hope our Tiger facepaint isn’t too scary and there’s a slight wardrobe malfunction with the hoods but heyho! 🙂 We think this song has great…
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Here is the Singing Hands interpretation of THIS IS ME – from the Greatest Showman soundtrack – such a powerful, emotive song for our SEN community! This song is jam-packed with metaphors, which presents a challenge when translating a song. You’ll see different interpretations of the lyrics, but we really hope that this one reflects…
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Just before #WDSD18, we received a Facebook message from a dad called Jamie telling us that he was part of a FB group of parents of young children with DS. With this message he sent us the first draft of a video of Mums and their children copying the Singing Hands Carpool Karaoke of Christina…
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Happy Monday! Going retro again this week with a #Makaton Carpool Karaoke of “It Must be Love” by Madness. It’s a great song to sing and sign along to with plenty of repetition of the key signs. All you need are some heart-shaped glasses, a mini-piano, an inflatable sax and guitar and you’re ready to…
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For this year’s #WDSD18 – we thought we’d share this #Makaton Carpool Karaoke of “Can’t Smile without You” – as the lyrics to this Barry Manilow classic are just SO perfect! It’s also great to sign as it has a fab pace and lots of repetition and just oozes cheese – which you know we…
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Here’s a great song for any TWILIGHT fans – Christina Perri’s beautiful song – ‘A Thousand Years’. As Tracy is currently recovering from a shoulder operation, I thought I’d do a bit of Carpool karaoke signing here with my daughter Ella (this is one of Ella’s favourite songs). Ella turned 18 last year so the…
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We’re off to Whipsnade Zoo Special Children’s Weekend so thought it would be fun for a wild Makaton sync and sign this week with our new lion wig. So grab yourselves a pith helmet, safari shirt, a lion wig, some facepaint and an inflatable saxophone and you are good to go! Here is the…
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We are thrilled to announce that we are going to be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival again this Summer! Come and join us this August on a magical, musical journey around the world! The show will feature rhymes and songs from our DVDs and CDs plus some exciting new songs for older participants! Come…
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Welcome back to another Makaton Sync and Sign post! To celebrate the fact that we are going to Scotland for the EDINBURGH FRINGE festival in August, we had a spare 15 minutes after we finished in the studio and before Miles’s School bus came back! So, we grabbed a couple of denim shirts, popped the…
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We are thrilled to announce that we have launched a Pledge Music Campaign to create a fresh and contemporary album and DVD of Makaton signed pop songs for older children / teenagers and adults who use Makaton. As you know we are well-known for creating Early Years / Schools resources to help young children learn…
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