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Early Years Music Resources Help!
There are many resources from your early years setting that you can use in music activities. In this blog, I give some helpful suggestions to worries and concerns I have heard from early years practitioners, regarding instruments, group props, and individual props.
Instruments
One of the biggest mistakes people make with their musical instruments is to just give the children free access to the instrument trolley/box/bag without knowing what they want the children to get from the activity.
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15 Weather Props
Do you use props during your music time? If not, it is worth considering as they can really help children engage through a sensory/interactive element to an activity. I have listed below 15 props/resources that I have used with children from 0 to 5 years in weather themed songs, rhymes and listening activities.
1. Scarves: I have used these in activities where children listen to music inspired by rain, snow or wind
2. A Parachute: Is a good way to create the effect of wind for songs and listen…
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