Music activities

DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Looking for engaging, musical games to play with your students? Here are a few of my favorite games and activities for elementary music classes, children's choirs, and elementary group classes.

Simple DIY water xylophone takes a couple minutes to make and is a great sound activity, experiment, and music activity for kids too!

Super cute DIY Maracas are a fun musical instrument craft for kids of all ages. Use these homemade musical instruemnts as a fun craft or music activity !

Create paper cup drums in 5 minutes or less. This is an easy musical instrument kids craft for preschool kids (with a little help from an adult). Kids crafts | kids crafts ideas | kids crafts easy

Easy body percussion activities for the elementary music educator and preschool music educator. I love using body percussion in my music classroom and I know that it’s an effective way to reach a lot of kids. So here are my easy body percussion activities you can use in your classroom too.

Preschoolers learn about the sound of drums through play and interactive lessons about orchesta instruments including the drum, woodwinds, horns, and more.

Kindergarten students love using instruments! Here are 5 tried and true rhythm activities to get your little ones engaged in music class.

This is a fun and messy piece of process art that the kids will love. Turn up the music and then drum and splatter and paint away.

Educational and craft activities for kids and parents

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Encourage your kids to be creative with these DIY musical instrument craft ideas! They can make them and then make music with them!

STEM / STEAM for Kids: Create your own straw pan flutes! A fun craft you can use to explore the science of sound and music. Children can create their own songs and record them on the free song recording sheet printable! #stem #steam #music #sound #scienceforkids #kindergarten #firstgrade #musicforkids #craftsforkids #kidscrafts

Homemade musical instrument- water xylophone

A list of five circle games that are great for elementary music. There are so many concepts you can teach with these games, and the kids will love it!

Make Paper Plate Tambourines - Looking to make music with supplies you already have on hand? Try this quick and easy arts and crafts for kids activity to create a homemade tambourine your child is sure to love. #craftsforkids #makingmusic #activities #music #musicalinstruments #artsandcrafts #educationdotcom

These fun Musical Games with ping pongs are great for music classes, they're fun, cheap and easy to set up and always very popular!