Music Activities

Hello Parents and Students,

I have put together many ideas for music activities at home! These activities and websites involve plenty of music, movement, and creation! The orange text will lead you to an activity! Click on it and a link will come up to the website!

Thanks,
Mr. Murrett

• This is a website for orchestra practice! It allows the children to go through the orchestra families and learn more about each instrument! 
• Dance to your own music with ribbon rings. This website has a simple tutorial on how to make your own ribbon and rings.
• Create and play a homemade harmonica. Your preschoolers can make their own! Housing a Forest created easy harmonicas using craft sticks and rubber bands.
• Creating your own percussion instrument! Egg shakers in this DIY version from this website using clear plastic eggs and colored sand for visual fun.
• March to your own drum. This website shares how to teach children how to march to the tempo of a drum, going from slow to crazy fast.
• These jingle bell sticks are fun for kids to make and use.
• You can strengthen speech and language development. This website gives a variety of ways to make music shakers along with activities that build verbal skills.
• Get up and move! This website shares a fun homemade action game that works on action and direction.
• Have fun doing the plate dance. This website uses two paper plates as cymbal-like percussion instruments. This dance reinforces fast, slow, softly, loudly, behind our backs, under our legs, above our heads, and you can also rub them together to produce a totally different sound.
• Repeat a rhythmical pattern. This website shows how one person plays a rhythmical pattern on an instrument and the rest of the children imitate the pattern using their instruments.
• Focus on following directions to music. This fun song by Nancy Kopman gets the body walking, bouncing, swaying, turning … to a fun beat!
• Create a rainstick. All you need are some simple supplies to make this fun instrument that sounds like rain. This helps children work on Percussion instruments!
• Making music outdoors! This website explains how to make a bell bush that young children can use to create music outdoors.
• Slowly move to classical music. Let’s Play Music shares how a different approach is needed when using softer, gentle music. 
• Move with Uno cards. This website shows us how to turn these cards into an indoor gross motor game.
• Have a quick movement break. This movement song challenges body awareness, motor planning, and so much more!
• Make a rainbow music stick. Preschool Powol Packets shows how fine motor skills are developed while making rainbow music sticks.
• Have a collection of music on hand. We love action songs for that get-up and move moments. Having a collection makes it easy to stop and move at any time!

Music Math!

Watch this series of videos with daily activities that both you and your child can complete! Each video will get progressively harder, incorporating basic music theory knowledge and math skills! These videos are suitable for children in grades 1-4 and are made as a simple, quick exercise to keep them engaged in music!

Visit Music Math!