Preschool Activities - How to Make Simple Musical Instruments Your Kids Will Love

Preschool Activities - How to Make Simple Musical Instruments Your Kids Will Love

Preschool Activities: How To Make Musical Instruments In The Household

Preschool activities can be limitless. Often times there are several great preschool activities ideas and fun right in your own home. Using preschool activities help children and preschoolers to learn and explore new areas of development through creating and through participation. It's no surprise that children love music. As a result of this well known fact, a fitting child activity for kids would be to make some musical instruments for them to make their own 'music' or to play along with music that may be playing at home or in the classroom. Music helps kids to learn to keep rhythm. They may dance and move to the beat of the music or at least try to. Music can also help stimulate their minds, physical & mental development and co-ordination skills. Below are a few great preschool activities & kids activities for preschoolers and kindergarteners.

How To Make a Musical Shaker: Musical instruments are fun to make for your children or preschoolers. Kids will love to make their own special musical instrument. This activity makes it fun for kids to play along with music and learn about keeping beat, or rhythm. Requirements For This Preschool/Kindergarten Activity include the following items below.


1 small or medium sized plastic bottle (*do not use glass for safety reasons) A variety of small containers could be used. Some Rice, soy beans or other similar non-perishable type of beans or rice. A glue gun (*always supervise when working with hot appliances like this), Colored construction paper, (Optional) some glitter

PreK/Kindergarten Musical Instrument Activity: What to Do: Take the water bottle, strip off any old labeling etc. Take a small amount of rice or soybeans and use a funnel or pour carefully into the bottle for your desired sound. Take the hot glue gun and glue on the cap with a few dabs of hot glue on the 'threading' of the cap. Twist cap on tight and let dry. You can then use the construction paper to cut out small stars and shapes etc.to glue on the bottle to decorate. You may also want to use glitter or other things to decorate the bottle or have the children decorate their bottle shakers.

** Keep in mind, different sized containers, different types of plastic and different contents will produce different sounds. Have Fun with Your Water Bottle Shaker: Play some fun kids music and let your children shake their new musical bottle shaker to the beat. You can help to tell kids when to shake their musical shakers. Try to explain to them when the beat takes place or let them just 'shake' away!

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