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This music activity is always a fan-favorite and opens up great conversation about how music can make us feel. From a young age, children can identify songs that can make them feel sad, happy, or excited. Learning to identify and label these feelings and learning can set the groundwork for\u00a0emotional intelligence<\/a>, so\u00a0guided questions<\/a>\u00a0are great here to allow kids to verbalize emotions and feelings!<\/p>\n Here in New Jersey, we are emerging from our quarantine bubble after being inside for months. Our children were either out of daycare or learning virtually. As a result, we found ourselves scouring the internet for music activities and crafts to do with them.\u00a0 Even after being a public school music teacher-turned stay-at-home mom for a few years, I had to go into that bag of tricks early for activities for my three and five-year-old. One of the things we all loved was drawing to music.<\/p>\n When I was in public school, this was a music activity I did with my Kindergarteners so I knew it was a great one to do at home. We watch The New York Philharmonic play The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) while Bugs and Daffy narrate. There’s some really great animation in between and within each piece, but they also feature the orchestra and conductor.\u00a0 Each animal song has its own page to draw. That’s it! There are no rules, no lines to stay within, no color constraints, no shape requirements. It’s incredible seeing the difference in color, shape, and form between \u201ckangaroo\u201d and \u201celephant.\u201d<\/p>\n Here are some links for some great pieces that pair well with this activity.\u00a0 I have enjoyed this activity with Saint-Saens\u2019s \u201cCarnival of the Animals,\u201d Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” and Gustav Holst\u2019s \u201cThe Planet\u2019s Suite,\u201d but “Four Seasons” and \u201cPlanet\u2019s\u201d are long in entirety.<\/p>\n Have you done this music activity before? What pieces did you use?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This music activity is always a fan-favorite and opens up great conversation about how music can make us feel. From a young age, children can identify songs that can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[36,37,39,38,40,34,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-4208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music-activities","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-art-activities","10":"tag-drawing","11":"tag-kids","12":"tag-kids-drawing","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-music-activities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/oceancounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Questions to ask your child after the music activity:<\/h4>\n
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Music Examples to Use<\/h4>\n
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