Learn From the Lyrics
Play, Dance, and Discuss to Help Children Learn The Song's Lessons
Dance Together!
Skills: Wellness, Social and Emotional
How to Play:
Sing and dance along. Babies will enjoy moving with you as you dip, sway, and spin. Bigger kids can dance what they feel as they listen to the song. Bonus points if you can dance with a friend and learn new moves from each other. Dancing together is one way for people to build strong attachments and create warm memories.
Art for a Friend
Skills: Social and Emotional Skills, Communication, Arts
How to Play:
Draw or paint a picture for a special friend and bring it to them to show them how much they mean to you!
What Friends See
Skills: Social and Emotional Development, Empathy
How to play:
In the music video for the song “A Friend Like You” the Noggin Kids imagine all the amazing adventures they go on. Let's talk about what you do in real life with your friends and then create the imaginary adventure version. For example, if you colored pictures in real life, maybe you made art for a museum or painted a mural on a whole city block!
Write a Super Friends Story
Skills: Social and Emotional Skills, Communication Skills
How to Play:
The lyrics to “A Friend Like You” encourage listeners to celebrate all the reasons why friends are special. Let's write and illustrate an original story of an adventure we go on with our friend! Imagine how much fun we'll have together!
"A Friend Like You" Artists Inspired by Real-Life Friendships
SQVARE, the Los Angeles-based vocalist, songwriter, and producer who is one of the creators of the newest song from Noggin’s Big Heart Beats Album, “A Friend Like You,” can thank music for bringing his best friend into his life.
“I saw he was a producer on an album I liked as a child,” he said. “I ended up reaching out over social media and [we] have become lifelong friends. Pretty crazy!”
Charity Daw, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter, who sang “A Friend Like You” also met her best friend through music: “We were both set up to write a song together and became instant friends! And we still write songs together!”
The creators of “A Friend Like You” shared their thoughts on friends and navigating friendship with Big Heart World just as Noggin released their peppy new song on friendship.
Remember: Friendship is Worth Waiting For and Fighting For
Charity said: “A good friend likes you for YOU!”
SQVARE said: “A good friend is someone you can trust with everything.”
Doug Petty, another collaborator on “A Friend Like You,” who is an LA-based composer, put it this way: “I think a good friend is someone who understands you and is always there for you.”
The fourth collaborator, Mike Himelstein, an LA-based songwriter, said the new song was inspired by his own friendships: “I was thinking about so many great friends I’ve been lucky to have, and how some of those friendships seemed to happen instantly, and others seemed to take a little time to grow, like the friendship in this song.” The characters in the song didn’t become instant friends. They had to try again in order to cement their friendship.
“True friendship is worth fighting for, even through differences and disagreements,” Charity said. “Sometimes, the greatest friendships can seem unlikely at first and it can be worth pushing past a first impression.”
“It’s important to find and hold onto the people you naturally connect with,” SQVARE added. “Some people just have a vibe that you can connect to. Cherish that.”
Doug said,“I hope that people take away the idea of remembering how important their friendships are and what make every friend unique.”
Listen to the song on Big Heart World!
Lyrics to Noggin's "A Friend Like You"
FIRST TIME THAT I MET ‘YA
I WASN’T SURE IF WE’D BE FRIENDS
WE BOTH WERE SORT OF SHY
I’M GLAD WE TRIED AGAIN!
I GOT TO KNOW YOU – I LIKED YOUR STYLE
WE LAUGHED A LOT & TALKED A WHILE
I GET HAPPY WHEN I MAKE YOU SMILE.
I’M SO GLAD I FOUND A FRIEND LIKE YOU
SO MUCH WE SHARE – SO MUCH WE DO!
THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING FUN & NEW
WITH A FRIEND LIKE YOU!
WE JUMP ON OUR SCOOTERS
AND GO RIDIN’ ALL AROUND
OR MAKE A PILLOW FORT
AND LAUGH WHEN IT FALLS DOWN.
WE LIKE TO MAKE STUFF LIKE GLUE SLIME
PLAY SOME GAMES OR MAKE SOME RHYMES
FIND A SUPER COOL ROCK WALL TO CLIMB.
I’M SO GLAD I FOUND A FRIEND LIKE YOU
SO MUCH WE SHARE – SO MUCH WE DO!
THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING FUN & NEW
WITH A FRIEND LIKE YOU!
SOMETIMES THE GREATEST FRIENDS
SEE THINGS A DIFFERENT WAY
BUT WHEN WE DISAGREE
WE KNOW THAT WE’RE OK
WE’RE TOGETHER THRU THICK AND THIN
THIS FRIENDSHIP ROAD HAS NO END
I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE MY FRIEND!
I’M SO GLAD I FOUND A FRIEND LIKE YOU
SO MUCH WE SHARE – SO MUCH WE DO!
THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING FUN & NEW
WITH A FRIEND LIKE YOU!
I’M SO GLAD I FOUND A FRIEND LIKE YOU
SO MUCH WE SHARE – SO MUCH WE DO!
THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING FUN & NEW
WITH A FRIEND LIKE YOU!