Free Preschool Activities

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season with your preschoolers! One of my family’s favorite things about Christmas is enjoying the Christmas music.

Now that Christmas is over, you can carry that love of music into the new year by doing some musical activities with your preschoolers.

Here are some fun music lessons you can do with your preschool class or your own preschoolers at home. These are very simple, and will introduce your preschooler to listening and thinking about music.

These activities will help your children learn:

• To listen for the difference between loud sounds and soft sounds
• To identifying how sounds are the same or different
• Different ways they can create music with their own voices.

Now, onto the fun!

1. What’s making that sound? Look around your home and collect items like marbles, bells, pencils, paperclips, and other small items. Put one item in a small box and shake it around. Ask your preschooler what they think is in the box. Does it make a soft or a loud sound?

2. Make your own rock band! Go outside and collect rocks of different sizes. Your preschoolers might even enjoy helping you with this. Then pick up various rocks and bang them together, one pair at a time. Ask your preschoolers if they can tell you if the sounds the different rocks make are the same or different. If they are different, how are they different?

3. No talking allowed! Play a game with your preschoolers where they have to talk to each other by singing their words instead of speaking. This game reminds me of a funny scene in the movie Finding Nemo, where Dory was “talking” to the whale. If your preschoolers are familiar with the movie, you might use that as an example of how to sing words instead of speak them.

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