Music

Sing Your Way to Reading Success

There are plenty of scholarly studies that show a strong relationship between singing and literacy development in preschoolers — and there...

The Language of Music

by Risa Young

What you need: large plastic containers small plastic containers filled with sand, beans, or buttons rhythm instruments such as bells,...

What's Shaking?

by Risa Young

What you need: small plastic bottles funnel variety of noise-making materials, including aquarium gravel, dried beans, dried pasta, rice,...

Have a Tambourine Jamboree

by Robin Smith

What you need: small sturdy paper plates with rims dried beans craft glue markers or watercolors hole punch yarn What to do: Measure...

Five Little Monkeys

What you need: scraps of felt craft glue scissors markers What to do: Trace the shape of your child's finger on a piece of felt. Cut...

Music From Around the World

by Risa Young

What you need:  Music from various genres, such as Latin, African, calypso, reggae, bluegrass, country, soul, jazz, classical, or even...

Moving to the Music

Have you ever felt so good that you felt like bursting into song? Children do all the time, and often they don't even know that they are singing!...

Strike Up the Band

What you need:  empty cans  rubber bands  toilet paper tube  wax paper  tape  tissue or cereal box  beads,...