So I'm running a music camp this summer, for three age groups, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8.
I need your infinate wisdom, Hatrack!
I need cool crafts that nobody's done before (music related or not). Easy to make instruments with wide appeal. Messy, not messy. Whatever.
I need music that little children can relate to- i.e. Carnival of the Animals, Peter and the Wolf, Yellow Submarine etc.
Random ideas also... I'm going to shamelessly rip-off STOMP (as STAMP, heh), and Beethoven Lives Upstairs is going to feature with the older children.
You get the idea. What is the coolest craft you know of? What relating to rhythym, music, instruments, composers, have you done?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
In my town there are a few days each year where musicians go to the library and show their instruments to the really little kids, let the kids play it, etc.
It was great, I loved it, it was one of the reasons I started playing violin. You could do something like that. If you have an orchestra based in your town or nearby, even if it's just the high school band.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Have you done the rain texture exercise? (Probably, this is widely used.) If not I can rustle up some instructions for you. It's a good lesson to talk about textures and timbres etc, and it's also really fun.
Those sites that rivka linked probably have some great call and response games with claves or something to bang together. Learning songs with movements or sign language attached is also a really fun activity.
I taught a bunch of kids to samba last week (very basic samba) with some authentic Brazilian SAMBA music (Daniella Mercury) and they had a blast.
Most of these activities end up being rather short, which is good because it keeps them busy, but bad because it means you have to have a LOT of them.
For any old crafts, there's mask-making. I helped a bunch of kids make them for our Brazilian themed class that I've been referring to. I had the masks cut out of posterboard and tied with ribbons on the sides and they just glued stuff to them. I used the glitter glue, feathers, markers and crayons and they had a good time.
Stringing shoeboxes up to look like pseudo guitars is a fun music related craft, or making wind chimes...
Good luck, I hope you can pull it together and actually enjoy some of it without too much stress. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Modified tambourine shakers can be made by stapling two paper plates together around the edges and partially filling with jingle bells, beans or anythin else that you think will make a cool sound. (macaroni pieces don't work very well though)
AJ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
You need a tape/CD of Sousa. Little kids love to have the march music blasting, and march around the room shaking or hitting their created instrument.
As kids my brothers, friends and I would march for hours until my mother got a headache and turned off the tape.
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Learning songs with movements or sign language attached is also a really fun activity.