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Basic Items for At-Home Music Making

Jul 12, 2020

Get your instrument....and play along! 

There's no question that playing along with music at home is fun for all ages! There are so many creative ways to create your own basket of instruments for music time, from homemade craft items, household items, and inexpensive child-appropriate instruments. You don't have to spend a lot of money to have fun musical experiences at home! 

Keep these 7 categories in mind while you are creating your own at home instrument collection: 

1) Something to SHAKE: homemade egg shakers, rattles, rice or beans in plastic containers, experiment with different sounds and weights for your shakers

2) Something to TAP: heavy plastic or cardboard containers, boxes of various sizes, coffee cans, plastic tubs, large mixing bowls, anything that provides a nice thump or tap sound with your hands

3) Something to STRIKE: wooden or metal spoons, small wooden sticks, cardboard tubes, 

4) Something to SWOOSH: light scarves, pillowcases, muslin swaddling blankets, tissue paper swishes and floats beautifully, have fun swooshing and floating different soft objects 

5) Something to DING: metal water bottles and tumblers, metal bowls, larger metal utensils, jingle bells, or chimes 

6) Something to SNUGGLE: a favorite blanket or stuffed animal to cuddle and sing to is especially sweet during our lullaby and snuggle songs 

7) Something to SING: Your VOICE! It's the most important instrument to bring to music class! 

 

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