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Preschool activities can be limitless. Often times there are several great preschool activities ideas and fun right in your own home. Using preschool activities help children and preschoolers to learn and explore new areas of development through creating and through participation. It's no surprise that children love music. As a result of this well known fact, a fitting child activity for kids would be to make some musical instruments for them to make their own 'music' or to play along with music that may be playing at home or in the classroom. Music helps kids to learn to keep rhythm. They may dance and move to the beat of the music or at least try to. Music can also help stimulate their minds, physical & mental development and co-ordination skills. Below are a few great preschool activities & kids activities for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
How To Make a Musical Shaker: Musical instruments are fun to make for your children or preschoolers. Kids will love to make their own special musical instrument. This activity makes it fun for kids to play along with music and learn about keeping beat, or rhythm. Requirements For This Preschool/Kindergarten Activity include the following items below.
Kids learn a lot through playing with music. It is also a great way for them to use their imagination. You can make your own musical instruments at home with them by simply using a soda bottle. Learning how to make preschool musical instruments from soda bottles is a great project to do with your children. You can use 2 liter bottles or 20 oz. bottles. Either one will be fine for you to use. This will just depend on the size of the instruments that you want to use. When your family drinks out of a bottle, wash it and rinse it. Let it dry and save it for making your instruments.
Another fun thing to make is a guitar. You can learn how to make preschool musical instruments from soda bottles. You will need the larger 2 liter bottles for this project. Cut off one side of the bottle all of the way. This will leave the back for the child to hold against their chest like the guitar back. They can hold onto the lid of the bottle and the bottom of it. Take a pair of scissors or a hole punch and make two small holes in your bottle. These are going to be at each end of the openings that you cut on the bottle. Take a large rubber band and put it between the two holes tying it together at each end. The kids can now strum the rubber band like a guitar string making noise. You can put more than one string if you would like to on these. If you want to be really ambitious, tie some yarn or a string to the bottle lid and bottom of the bottle so they can wear it as a strap over their shoulder while they pay.
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