Exploring Music and Movement With Young Children
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Music and movement activities can be a fun part of every day in your preschool!
Benefits of Music and Movement
- Provides a means of communication and expression
- Serves as an emotional release
- Heightens aesthetic awareness and sensitivity
- Develops and promotes creative thinking
- Develops an appreciation for individuality
- Serves as a balance in classroom activities
- Assists in the development of physical coordination and body awareness
- Strengthens self-concept and self confidence
- Increases self understanding
- Enhances the ability to differentiate sounds
- Helps develop fine motor skills
- Provides opportunities for problem- solving and decision making
- Provides insight and assists the adult in understanding the child
- Develops self-relaxation and regulation skills
- Illustrates cause and effect
- Stimulates the part of the brain that learns
- Develops math concepts and skills
Make Musical Instruments!
- Paper plate Tambourines
- Jingle bell bracelets (sewn onto ponytail holders, or threaded onto pipe cleaners)
- Bottle Music (glass bottles or glasses filled with different amounts of water, spoons)
- Milk carton or cereal box guitar
- Comb/wax paper harmonica
- Plastic egg shakers
- Clear soda bottle shakers
- Oatmeal container drum
- Dowel sticks (hit together to keep the beat)
- Sandpaper blocks (to rub together)
- Soda bottle whistles (blow downward, from the side, to make sound)
- Snapple juice lid clackers
- Pots and Pan lid cymbals
Copyright 2005 ~Cathy Abraham