As we stared out the window at the blanket of dust covering Mahboula and wondered what to do with the last bit of our day today, I realized that we’d have to come up with something fun to do indoors. Selfishly, I wanted it to be something that was fairly quick and easy to pull…

Here's a list of fun activities you can do with preschool and kindergarten using rhythm sticks!

DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Looking for a fun music lesson based on a book? My first graders loved playing instruments along with the rhythms from Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

A fun and creative way to explore sound in your classroom! I recently picked up the book "Red and Yellow's Noisy Night" by Josh Selig and fell in love with it. It is one of those books that can be extended into all content areas of the classroom! One way we extended our new book was

Simple DIY water xylophone takes a couple minutes to make and is a great sound activity, experiment, and music activity for kids too!

Five fun egg shaker activities you can use with Preschool and Kindergarten music classes for Halloween or any time of year!!

Books for elementary music? You can teach musical concepts in elementary music with books! In this post we have 9 book based lessons for elementary music!

Unfortunately, we are going to have to limit attendance next week to 45 or 50 kids, because there were just too many to do these activities ...

Fun Holiday music and movement activities for complete music lessons in grades K-3. Holiday music activities for the elementary music classroom.