Tuesday, February 21, 2006

The Barney Clean Up Song Makes Cleaning Up FUN

A friend of mine wrote a comment for one of my earlier blog entries about the "Clean Up" game.
Well, it's actually the ONE thing we can all thank BARNEY for and mean it!
Instead of just being told to or nagged to clean up, most kids will enjoy cleaning up while hearing or singing a fun song. If you avoid Barney on TV and haven't heard the song-here are the lyrics.
"Clean up clean up everybody everywhere. Clean up clean up everybody do your
share.
Clean up clean up everybody everywhere. Clean up clean up everybody do your
share.
Clean up clean up everybody everywhere. Clean up clean up everybody do your
share."
The song is easy to remember and can become quite the earworm (song-you-can't-get-out-of-your-head).
I try to make sure my daughter cleans up her toys, craft materials, etc. after she is done with them. She'll start singing the song on her own as she cleans up. Her daycare also uses this tactic-like it's a game.

3 comments:

Bloghungry said...

Genius. It's like brainwashing your kids to clean their rooms. Do you know any catchy laundry songs for adults. I need more modivation to do my laundry.

Kelley said...

I'll have to come up with something-I need serious motivation for doing laundry too!

Fightin' Mad Mary said...

I would sing the "clean up" song to my junior high students(back when I was an art teacher) and it even worked for them. They would sing it with me!