Stories & Songs

STORIES 

Through years of working with families and children I have developed a range of stories for a range of situations. From helping children to form healthy boundaries in their life long journeys to working with adults and their own human conditions (including my own!), I relish the opportunity to work with the powerful and therapeutic art of storytelling .

I have had two stories published in Susan Perrow’s internationally acclaimed book “Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour” including Shimmer Wing & Never Get Enough.

The Three Little Pigs retold by Sandra Frain

The Bluebird of Happiness & the Rainbow Dragons written by Sandra Frain

Mr Sai-Ong & the Middle Way written by Sandra Frain and performed as a play by the Fellowship Community in New York on September 3,2001

Shimmer Wing written by Sandra Frain for a child’s memorial service & published in “Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour” by Susan Perrow.

The Magic Bean written by Sandra Frain for the Flower Festival on July 15th 2012

Stag Horn Fern written by Sandra Frain for Rainforest Kindergarten Oct 11th 2014

The Easter Hare Legacy written by Sandra Frain for The Sweeping of the Tomb Festival in Tienfu Waldorf Forest School, China April 2015

SONGS

“Music gives a should to the Universe, Wings to the mind, Flight to the imagination & Life to Everything” Plato

Printable version of all songs available here

“From You I Receive” by Joseph and Nathan Segal

“Living Traditions” Unitarian Universalist Hymn book

From you I receive to you  I  give,
together we share, and from this we live.
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“Water Droplets” by Sandra Frain

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“Spiral Song” by Sandra Frain

 Around and around and around we go
where we go no body knows  X 2

“Who Is Living Right Beside Me” by Sandra Frain

Who is living right beside me right beside me right beside me
Who is living right beside me curly green lichen I do see
Curly green lichen lives right beside me right beside me right beside me curly green lichen lives right beside me on the great bark tree
Who is living right beneath me right beneath me right beneath me Who is living right beneath me bright green furry moss I see

“Nelly Nasturium” by Sandra Frain

I’m Nelly Nasturtium
I’ve got a Bright White Star
Right in the middle of my forehead
So I can see far so far
So I can see far

“Bindy Man” words by Susan Perrow melody by Sandra Frain

Watch as you pass
Your feet through the grass
Spikey-face Bindy man you may meet
He’s watching,
He’s waiting, to catch your soft feet.
Ouch! Beware. Ouch! Beware. Ouch! Beware,
He’s hiding somewhere!

“Come Butter” From Hawthorne Valley Farm, New York

Come butter come
Come butter come
If you don’t hurry you’re gonna be late and
I’m gonna beat you to the garden gate.
Hebrew & English as passed on by Romy Agam Rom“Ani Aff Ani Aff Ani Aff
Atur Knefeim Shalor
I am flying I am flying I am flying Adorned with wings of light.”

“Flour Song”

(As sung at Mullumbimby Shearwater Steiner Preschool while flour is being sprinkled in to each child’s hands or on the baking table)
“Soft sifted flour from wheat golden” or (Sandra’s adaptation for other flours such as rye) ”Soft sifted flour from rye so spry”

“Through the Windy Woods I Wander” By Peter Orem (Pentatonic)

Through the Windy woods I wander
Weave my way from tree to tree
Looking for a good companion
Who will come and walk with me.

“Tiny Seed” Words by Sandra Frain Pentatonic Tune by Liz Kee

Seed Seed Tiny Seed
in Mother earth all cozy indeed
Seed Seed Tiny seed
Root and stem you will need
then 2 leaves and you are freed
Seed seed tiny seed
Oh and a blossom
how beautiful indeed.

“Fire Finches” by Sandra Frain

Flighty Fire finches flitting through the forest
flitting in and flitting out and flitting all about

“Wattle Light” by Sandra Frain

Oh what a delight
Tiny points of light
Oh what a delight it is
Yellow fluffy wattle blossoms glowing day and night
Yellow fluffy wattle blossoms glowing day and night.

“Kangaroo Family” by Sandra Frain

A leaping and a hopping
a leaping and a hopping
a leaping and a hopping
and a pow pow pow
Mother Kanga hears a sound
Who could it be who is around?
“Click click” “click click”
Here comes Joey comes on the bound
into her pouch
Without a sound

“Eagle Song” by Sandra Frain

Eagle Eagle fly so high
Up up up in clear blue sky
Over Waves that rush and roar
To your stick nest
on cliff near by
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