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Bang on your flower pots, string your your shoebox guitar, and make some bottle maracas with this week's round-up of music-making activities and printables! Remember that some great learning can come from making some great music and that's what this week is all about.
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Week 5: Make Music Make Flower Pot Music Shoebox Guitar Paper Plate Tambourines Make a Spin Drum DANIEL TIGER'S Neighborhood: Feel the Music Bottle Maracas! Drinking Glass Xylophone Music Memory Game Music Note Pattenrs MARTHA SPEAKS: Sing! Creative Writing: Music Prompt Learn to Play Piano! FIZZY'S LUNCH LAB Tune Box More to Explore!
Bang on your ower pots, string your shoebox guitar, and make some bottle maracas with this week's round-up of music-making activities and printables! Remember that some great learning can come from making some great music, and that's what this week is all about.
Make Flower Pot Music Shoebox Guitar Conduct Your Own Chorus! Paper Plate Tambourines Make a Spin Drum Bottle Maracas! Drinking Glass Xylophone Music Memory Game Music Note Pattenrs Creative Writing: Music Prompt Learn to Play Piano! Fizzy's Lunchlab Tune Box
Clay ower pots Wooden spoon String Notebook rings Place from which to hang the pots Empty shoe box 5-6 jumbo rubber bands Pen or pencil Scissors 2 paper plates Dried beans A stapler Magic markers, stickers, glitter glue, etc An empty frozen juice container with both metal ends Craft knife White glue
Yarn 2 beads Embroidery needle 2 plastic drink bottles Rocks Dried uncooked pasta Rice Masking tape 6 tall glass glasses, bottles, or jars (preferably the same shape and size) Water Food coloring or colorful soft drink mix Metal spoon, wooden spoon, or wooden popsicle sticks Jug
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What to Do:
1. Collect clay flower pots with a hole in each of the pot bottoms. Use four or five different sizes. 2. Thread a piece of string through the bottom of each pot and attach it to a notebook ring placed inside the pot. 3. Hang the pots upside-down at different lengths, so that when they are struck with the wooden spoon, they will not swing and hit each other. 4. Invite your child to hit the pots with the wooden spoon to make music. Talk about the different sounds the different-sized pots make. Older children can try to imitate a tune they know or make their own. If your child would like to show off his newfound musical talent, gather friends and family members for a concert! Adapted with permission from "Squish, Sort, Paint & Build: Over 200 Easy Learning Center Activities." Copyright 1996 by Sharon MacDonald. Used by Permission of Gryphon House, Inc., Maryland. All Rights Reserved. Downloaded from Education.com
Spin Drum
Rhythm masters and percussion artists in training, have some fun holding a beat with some homemade drums! Help your child craft a spin drum like those found in both Peru and Japan. Instead of being played with hands or sticks, this unique drum has to be twisted and turned to play. This drummers activity is sure to spark an interest in learning about musical instruments from other cultures.
All musical instruments, including the piano, use SEVEN basic notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. A piano has a total of 88 keys. These seven notes are played on the white keys, repeated over and over, but the pitch gets higher as they go from left to right.
Cut out these markers and tape them to the correct keys on your piano as a guide!
OCTAVE: An octave is a series of 8 notes in order. All notes can be played at many different octaves; it is the same note, but with a higher or lower pitch. The keys highlighted in yellow represent an octave.
FLAT (b): This symbol flat means that the note is played one half-step below (on the black keys). SHARP (#): This symbol sharp means that the note is played one half-stop above (on the black keys). CHORD: A chord is many notes played together, at the same time to create a harmony.
More to Explore!
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