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By Anne Hole

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3 Musical Ideas to Initiate Tidying Up

Let’s bring a little Mary Poppins to tidying up time: make it fun!

What musical ideas can you use?

There are 3 musical ideas you could use to initiate tidying up:

1. Instrument:

You could use a tambourine, a drum, a shaker... whatever you can easily access and play.

1. Tap the syllables in the words that you want to ask the children. For example you could use the following phrases:

Tidy up time (2 short taps, 1 long tap, 1 long tap) e.g.:

Are you nearly done? (1 long tap,1 long…

Composing music with children is not as hard as you think!

The idea of composing music with children fills some educational professionals with dread.

If you currently feel like this take a step back! We ask children to compose paintings, drawings, dances… music is no different! Just know what you are trying to get from the children is appropriate for their age. You’re not asking them to compose the next Pop song or Classical work. No more in art are you expecting them to paint Pop Art or Classicism

Break it down. What you need to be asking them …

3 Musical Ideas to Initiate Tidying Up

There are 3 musical ideas you could use to initiate tidying up:

1. Instrument:

Composing music with children is not as hard as you think!

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