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By Anne Hole

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7 Ways to use Drums in your Early Years Setting

Do you have drums in your early years setting? Do you wonder what to do with them? Well, here are 7 ideas to get you started:

1. Tidy up time

Use a drum to signal that it is time to tidy up. This could be one bang or the rhythmic pattern of the words you normally say (tap the syllables in the words)

2. Sound patterns

With the children who are 3 years and older ask them to play simple sound patterns using different words on the drums: tapping the syllables in the words.

3. Explore Dynamics…

Doing music just for music!

I’ve been asked and read lots about how music can benefit other areas of learning. It is great that it is such an enabling subject. I even wrote my degree dissertation back in 1998 on how music can help with the mathematical concept of pattern.

I think we sometimes miss that we should also be doing music just for the sake of doing music. It is a great way for children to express themselves vocally; through body movements: hands: shaking, tapping, scraping, bangin…

7 Ways to use Drums in your Early Years Setting

1. Tidy up time

2. Sound patterns

3. Explore Dynamics…

Doing music just for music!

Doing music just for music!

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