free music for small child - need answer fast

Cafe Society
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Hi all,
Due to unforeseen circumstances I am in temporary possession of a small unwell child. I would like to have some music for her to listen to but nothing I have is appropriate. Does anyone know of a place where I can download some free small kids music (I’m thinking nursery rhymes in the public domain).

Unofficial “Aunty” madrabbitwoman

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Wasn’t able to find music here (though there is a great chance there is some) but I did find several collections of audio stories for children on the Internet Archive.

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=children%20AND%20collection%3Aaudio_bookspoetry

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Do you have iTunes? You can get a lot of kids’ podcasts for free from the iTunes store, including songs and fairy tales.

I don’t have any to recommend, as I just found these the other day and sent instructions for my mom to download some for my niece.

I actually don’t know how to go directly to the “Kids & Family” section of podcasts, but here are the directions I sent to my mom:

  1. Open itunes
  2. At the top, go to Store - Home
  3. At the top right where it says “Search Store” type storynory and hit Enter (this is the name of one podcast for kids)
  4. You’ll see a picture of a frog next to the Storynory podcast. Click on that.
  5. Once you get to the Storynory page, there will be “Breadcrumbs” at the top that say Podcasts > Audio Podcasts > Kids & Family > Wizzard Media > Storynory - Stories for kids. Click on “Kids & Family” in this list.
  6. This will bring you to a list of all of their Kids & Family offerings.

You don’t need an iPod to play stuff from the iTunes store, BTW. Just download stuff into iTunes and play it from your computer.

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Go to youtube and search for Sesame Street videos.

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Or The Wiggles.

Great stuff for kids, some traditional kids songs, lots of originals.

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My recommendation http://www.kiddierecords.com/
from a previous thread Toddler music and stories? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board

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Dig out your old Peter Paul & Mary albums. Puff the Magic Dragon is a children’s song, but a lot of their harmonies and such may be pleasing to young ears.