While your children are out of school, expand their musical learning outside of the classroom with at-home music activities for kids. These music activities are designed to encourage and inspire your child’s interest in music. If your child isn’t in school yet, this is a great opportunity to help them discover the magic that music has to offer. Make music and enjoy something fun and different with your child. Are you ready to teach your child the wonders of music? Keep reading.
Shake-It-Up Musical Activity
Do you have empty soda cans in your home? Go ahead and take them out of the recycling bin and prepare yourself for a fun musical activity! All you need is three tablespoons of uncooked rice, two empty soda cans, dried beans, scissors, clear packing tape, and paper. Fill one can with dried beans, and the other with uncooked rice. Remove the tabs, and tape over the opening. You can use the paper to wrap around the cans, and decorate them however you’d like! Then shake, shake, shake!
Rubber Band Music Activity
For this activity, your child can enjoy plucking and picking the rubber bands. After they’re done, they might even form their own band! All you need is a large empty tub or coffee can, an empty tissue box, fun stickers, and lots and lots of rubber bands.
Decorate your object of choice (coffee can or margarine tub) with stickers. Then, stretch five to seven rubber bands around the container so that they go over the open end. Now, get to pluckin’.
Musical Spoon Activity
Silverware is great for eating, but it also makes lots of sounds when tapping, sliding, and drumming. Grab an old spoon––none of your nice silverware––and start lightly tapping, sliding, and drumming on common household objects. Notice the different sounds of the metal hitting different surfaces. Have fun!
Play-and-Record Musical Activity
Everyone knows the best way to learn music is through repetition and sound. This activity is the perfect way for your child to learn music. All they need is a musical instrument, and a tape recorder. Have them pick up their favorite instrument and experiment with musical styles such as jazz, blues, pop, rock, etc. Anything goes! Then, have them record their instrument playing to playback after. Listening to yourself play music is a great way to learn.
Soda Bottle Organ Activity
A great use for old soda bottles is the soda bottle organ activity, where your child can make their own air-powered musical instruments. For this activity you’ll need newspapers, five or six empty soda bottles, water, and food coloring.
Spread out the newspapers. Practice making a tone by blowing into the top of a soda bottle. Play around with filling the bottles with different levels of water to get different notes! Have fun mixing up your different bottle variations! The food coloring is just for fun if you want to color code the notes!
Note-by-Note Musical Activity
This activity is a great way for your child to learn a new tune easily. Writing tunes might seem like a difficult task to do, but once you do it enough, you’ll notice it gets easier over time. All you need for this activity is a piano or keyboard. Pick a number between one and ten, and string that may notes together at random, keeping track of the pattern. If you pick six, use six notes in the pattern. Using the same notes in a different order, create a new pattern. String your combinations together, and you have your own composed tune!
Just because your child’s school is out doesn’t mean the music making has to stop! These at-home music activities for kids are a fun, cost-free way to help your child learn, play, and enjoy music.
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