Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man

Disclosure: We received a copy of Matt the Music Man’s new CD, Everyday Superheroes to review for this blog post. All opinions and all the fun was ours.

Matt the Music Man is proud to announce that his new album, Everyday Superheroes will be released on November 3, 2017! This is his second children’s album, and it’s awesome!

About the Album

Everyday Superheroes is a collection of all-original songs that are fun, educational and rockin’! The lyrics that Matt carries throughout the album are to promote self-confidence and respect for kids in an exciting way. The album was recorded by Carey Langille and features local musicians such as Darrin Harvey, Rick Spinney of the Spinney Brothers, Heather Kelday and Peter Mackey.

We loved Matt the Music Man’s first album, too! See our review:

We decided to hold our own CD Launch Party, so I gathered my nieces and nephews, ages 3-11, and we did a few activities to go along with the new album!

One of our favourite songs is Little Canadian Animal. Just try not to hum this song all day long!

Making Beaver Lodges

We started our party by learning about beavers and making our own lodges using pretzel sticks and chocolate frosting.

There were no set instructions.

The best part was eating your creation at the end!

Beaver Ornaments

Next, we made our own beaver ornaments. They turned out so well, we’ll tie thread around them and use them for Christmas tree ornaments!

We used a hot glue gun to assemble them, making one at a time.

Glue a pompom to the top of a pine cone. Add eyes, white felt teeth and a brown felt tail. Then, we cut off some pieces from an extra pine cone to glue on for ears.

They were so cute! And the kids were pretty proud!

Everyday Superheroes

The title track for the CD is Everyday Superheroes, and how “You can be a Superhero, too”.

It has a great lesson, and we had some great conversations talking about how we could be superheroes, too.

While we were talking, we made superhero masks from craft foam. We printed patterns from this website.

Our foam was a bit smaller, so we had to resize a bit, but we reworked it a bit in our tracing. The kids decorated the masks and we added yarn to hold them on.

They were a great looking bunch.