Use the site as a toolkit for family music nights, outreach, and local literacy partnerships
Sing With Our Kids is meant to be used by real communities, not just browsed. The work is done — all you have to do is use it. The website is a free toolkit for families, schools, libraries, and local organizations.
Nancy’s Mercer Island pilot-project framing made that vision concrete: families, schools, daycare providers, libraries, bookstores, parks, and faith communities all form part of the same literacy ecosystem.
What Local Organizations Can Do
- Print and distribute information from the music-and-early-literacy pages.
- Hold community events to increase awareness and create shared singing habits.
- Work with care providers to make them aware of free materials and songs.
- Use the technology pages to educate families about using media responsibly.
- Treat local families, libraries, schools, parks, and organizations as a connected ecosystem.
A Non-Profit Director’s Story
“We serve a low-income community and are always looking for low-cost or free resources to engage children and help educate parents. We print out and distribute the early-literacy information from the Sing With Our Kids website and download songs to make CDs for families. These simple songs are also great for our ESL parents, so they are learning too.”
Planning Tools
Event Planner PDF
A practical planning tool for family events and community singalongs.
Open tool ->Event Journal
Use the event-journal pages to document what works and improve each round.
Open tool ->Music and Early Literacy PDF
A printable handout explaining why these events matter beyond entertainment.
Open tool ->