Session Ideas for seasonal sessions, sequencing sessions, IEP sessions, Children's Music therapy sessions, and more!

If you read my last post on books based on popular songs, this one is its slightly different cousin. These are singable picture books, which is to say, books that either have their own built-in melody or repeating musical part that you sing as you go. Some have a CD or QR code so you can hear the tune, some you can set to whatever melody fits, and a few have become so iconic that there's basically one "right" way most therapists sing them. Either way, singable books are some

Books based on popular songs are some of my favorite tools to bring into sessions. The melody is already familiar, the lyrics already live somewhere in the client's brain, so the book becomes an easy anchor for vocal participation, joint attention, sequencing, lyric work, all of it. And honestly? They're just fun to read! Here are 20 song-based picture books I love (or have on my "next to buy" list), grouped by what they tend to do best in session. Bookmark this one! Some of