Fun Music Activities to do at Home
Technology Friendly Lessons:
- https://www.incredibox.com/ - Create your own beatboxing music. Be sure to use the website since the app isn't free.
- Music Chrome - https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/ - Make a song using this website. Feel free to save it so you can share it with the class when we return!
- https://www.nyphilkids.org/ - Explore the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and learn about the instruments.
Non-technology activities
- Use material around your house to create an instrument. Feel free to bring it to school when we come back! Answer these questions about your new instrument:
- What did you name your instrument?
- What materials did you use to make your instrument?
- How do you play your instrument?
- What kind of music would you play with your instrument?
- Make a list of all the different kinds of music we hear and where we hear them. (Grocery store, sports game, library, car rides, etc.). What kind of mood does the music set? If you were in charge, what kind of music would you play at these places?
- Sing the song, "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Now change Mary's name, the animal and the characteristic about the animal. Sing your new song. Make up either body percussion (clapping, stomping, snapping, tapping, patting) or other instruments (kitchen utensils make great drumsticks!) to go with your new song.
- Interview an adult or older sibling (or cousin!) in your house. Ask them the following questions:
- What song (or songs) do you remember best from your childhood and why?
- What song (or songs) or type of music calms you down? What song cheers you up?
- What song would you use to describe me and why?
- Consider finding a song and make it your family's "theme song". Talk to your family about why you think that song fits your family.
- https://www.incredibox.com/ - Create your own beatboxing music. Be sure to use the website since the app isn't free.
- Music Chrome - https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/ - Make a song using this website. Feel free to save it so you can share it with the class when we return!
- https://www.nyphilkids.org/ - Explore the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and learn about the instruments.
Non-technology activities
- Use material around your house to create an instrument. Feel free to bring it to school when we come back! Answer these questions about your new instrument:
- What did you name your instrument?
- What materials did you use to make your instrument?
- How do you play your instrument?
- What kind of music would you play with your instrument?
- Make a list of all the different kinds of music we hear and where we hear them. (Grocery store, sports game, library, car rides, etc.). What kind of mood does the music set? If you were in charge, what kind of music would you play at these places?
- Sing the song, "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Now change Mary's name, the animal and the characteristic about the animal. Sing your new song. Make up either body percussion (clapping, stomping, snapping, tapping, patting) or other instruments (kitchen utensils make great drumsticks!) to go with your new song.
- Interview an adult or older sibling (or cousin!) in your house. Ask them the following questions:
- What song (or songs) do you remember best from your childhood and why?
- What song (or songs) or type of music calms you down? What song cheers you up?
- What song would you use to describe me and why?
- Consider finding a song and make it your family's "theme song". Talk to your family about why you think that song fits your family.
