Weekly themed play - music


Weekly theme play promptIt can often be hard to come up with ideas to do and play with children. I sometimes find it quite useful, to think of a theme and gear our activities around it. A lot of the time, if you suggest to your children a theme, they will come up with the ideas themselves, be guided by them.

I am going to write a series of weekly posts, every monday, where I suggest a theme. I will also provide some suggestions of activities you could try within that theme. I will then post about what we got up to here every Wednesday, if you’d like to pop back for more ideas.

This weeks theme is: Music10 ideas for activities with music for kids

I believe music is very important for children, it helps language, movement, listening skills and is most definitely fun!

Here are some suggestions for musical play, fun and craft:

  1. Nursery rhymes – sing nursery rhymes together, complete with the actions. Put on a cd if you are not very good at singing like me.
  2. Listen & dance to music – Maybe put on a dance cd and have a bop around the room together. You will be surprised how fun it is and how much exercise you both get.
  3. Make your own instruments – Get creative and make some easy shakers with some lentils or rice in a plastic pot. Make some drums with upturned plastic boxes and a pencil for the stick, or how about some elastic bands around an empty tissue box for a guitar, or get even more creative like this one from Makedo Homemade guitar
  4. Have a go at some musical letters – lots of fun and learning at the same time.Children playing musical letters
  5. Play DJ – get the children to have a DJ session, great for pretend play and older kids.
  6. Put on a show – often children love putting on shows for you, encourage them to give you a music show with singing and dancing.
  7. Musical bumps/statues – Kids love party games, why not have a go at some at home.
  8. Talk about music – talk to your children about music, discuss what you each like an why, discover rhythms together.
  9. Experiment with sound – take a stick and (gently) hit lots of different objects around the house and garden, to hear the differences.
  10. Go on a sound walk – go for a walk and listen to how many different sounds you can hear and identify.Sound walk

Those are my 10 suggestions, but there are so many possibilities for musical play and fun. Take a look at my pinterest board for more inspiration here.

Please pop back later in the week, to see what we got up to within our music theme.

I hope you find this series of weekly themed prompts for play useful. Please get in touch if you can think of something you’d like featured.