Preschool Music Activities

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Preschool Music Activities

Preschool music activities can be simple and fun:

• Get moving and grooving with a dance party
• Play a wide variety of music
• Add actions or new words to old favorites
• Watch videos of different musicians playing a variety of instruments
• Go to a concert

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• Simple and fun preschool lesson plans

Drum Fun

SUPPLIES:

• Paper plates
• Beans
• Stapler
• Popsicle sticks

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Help:
2. Fill a paper plate with beans and staple another one on top.Child:
3. Color drum.
4. Play drums along with some music.

Island Dance Party

SUPPLIES:

• Hawaiian music
• Tropical fruit
• Stapler

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Show videos of Hawaiian dancing.
2. Play Hawaiian music and let the children dance along.
3. Eat some tropical fruit.

Melting Snowmen

SUPPLIES:

• Music

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Child:
2. Pretend to be snowmen and when the music plays grow taller.
3. When the music stops, melt to the ground.

Music Freeze

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Child:
2. Dance to music or act like an animal.
3. When the music stops freeze, then start the music again.
4. Try dancing with a blanket and when the music stops hide under it.

Music Band

SUPPLIES:

• Objects to use as instruments
• Stuffed animals
• Video recorder

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Find objects or instruments to play along with music.
2. Let the children decide what song they want to play for their concert.
3. Line up stuffed animals to watch.
4. Record the concert and watch it.

Old McDonald's Farm

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Choose an animal.
2. When you sing the chorus of the song, have fun acting like the chosen animal.

Word Movers

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Choose a word that is sung often in a song.
2. Decide on something to do when he hears that word like: clap, jump, wiggle, stomp feet, stick out tongue.
3. Sing or listen to the song and do the actions when that word is sung.