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| Music DAZE |
Have you Tried? Listen to "Peter and the Wolf" "Fly Swatter" Painting to the song "Shoo, fly don't bother me" take a picture of the child playing his/her favorite instrument - have child tell you why it is their favorite and post on the wall listen to several different kinds of music to become familiar wiht them. c.2005 - 2006 |
| Bubble Wrap Dancing You Need: Cool dancing music Sheets of Bubble wap Have bubble sheet placed on the floor (one big sheet or many smaller sheets on placed around the area). Set up music to play. Encourage children to dance. Musical Art Use copies of sheet music to tear and glue onto another piece of paper. Add musical shapes such as notes, clefts, or various instruments Provide different art materials, and then play different types of music and encourage the children to create to the music. What does the music sound like or make you feel? Set up a table and play music with a great tempo to draw to. When the music stops the children have to go to the next persons spot and add to the drawing in that spot when the music starts again. Tracing instruments on paper Using paint or large stamp pads, paint footprints of children while they dance to music. Once paint drys, cut the feet out and have the children place them on the wall or on large paper "dancing to the beat" Radio Drawing Materials: radio, paper, crayons What to do: If you listen carefully, music that doesn't have any words can paint a picture in your mind. Turn on the radio and find a station that is playing music without words. Jazz or classical music works well. Now close your eyes. How many different instruments can you hear? Do they sound like they're working with each other or against each other? Is one instrument easier to hear than the others? Is the music loud or soft? Does the music sound rushed and crowded as if everything is hurrying to get to the next note? Or is it slow and lazy, as if the notes were taking a walk along the beach at sunset? Now think about what colours match the music that you're hearing. If the sounds were shapes on a page, what would they look like? Draw what you think the music would look like. Musical Numbers Create a circle of numbered papers or cardstock for each guest. Place slips of paper with each number in a hat. Have the children dance around the circle to music. Stop the music, ask the children to stand on the next number, and pull a slip of paper from the hat. The child on that number leaves the game with his or her numbered paper and chooses a prize from a basket. Continue until all of the children are out of the game. Limbo This game doesn't need a winner or loser to be fun. Children just love to challenge themselves going lower and lower under the limbo stick. Freeze Dance Add a twist to this classic game by telling the children to freeze in a particular shape each time the music goes off. For example, at a birthday party you could tell them to freeze as a birthday cake, a candle, a party hat, a balloon, a gift, etc. Create a musical instrument using diffrent color and/or textured papers, yarn, glitter or whatever else needed. High or low? Sing or play a simple tune that uses obviously high or low notes, then ask your child whether she thinks it's high or low. When she understands this, try singing a short musical scale and ask her to tell you if it's going up to the high notes or down to the low ones. Clap a name try clapping out the syllables in each family member's name. For example Jon-a-than (three claps), Mar-y (two claps) and E-liz-a-beth (four claps). Read to music find a poem or short story with a distinct atmosphere (scary, exciting, sad, funny etc) and read it over a piece of music that echoes the atmosphere. Or see how an inappropriate piece of music can disrupt an atmosphere. Rounds sing a round, where people start a song one after the other. Well-known rounds include Three Blind Mice, London Bridge, Row, Row, Row Your Boat and London's Burning. Stop the music! play musical bumps, where you have to sit down every time the music stops, or musical statues, where you have to stand absolutely still. Follow me put on classical music and show your child how to pretend to be the conductor by waving a stick in time to the beat. He could make large movements for loud sounds, and small ones for soft sounds. If you're not sure of all the words in a song game, improvise with your own! Your voice is a musical instrument, so use it - and sing! |
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| "Play is as essential to the aged as it is to the young. I count that day lost when I am not moved to tears or laughter, but even more if I have not played.."
- George Sheehan in Going the Distance by George Sheehan |