Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
Using Rhymes in the Rain, the sky is the limit for creativity for you and your young students! New visuals/PowerPoints are now available in our Big Kids Make Music curriculum! Not yet a member? Join the fun!
1. Free Exploration: Instruments in C pentatonic, invite the children to lightly play drips and drops gently on the bars, anywhere they they think it would sound good with the songs and rhymes. Don’t forget to add some quiet beats. TIP! If you can’t hear the song, your playing is too loud!
2. Keep the Beat on C and G as the teacher chants the rhyme, “Rain on the Green Grass”. Play the beat.
3. Play on specific beats-only on “Rain” (Player choosing which notes to play)
4. Play only on “Not on me!”
5. Play on “Rain” and Not on me!” Reading: Follow the visual left to right.
6. Two Parts Together! Lower instruments play the beat, higher instruments play on Rain, not on me.
7. Now the Challenge! Play on all the rain for It Rained on Anne
Add some fun pitch matching and creative movement for a complete lesson plan!
Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
The Music Box Blog and Forum are full of ideas for every age level. Here’s a few for the popular SPIDER theme!
Here’s one perfect for the amazing Gathering Drum! (Hand drums will work too)
Eensy Weensy Spider is a huge hit for solo singing and solo playing by the entire class using our amazing little glockenspiels! Members, check out the FREE visuals here:
https://lynnkleinersmusicbox.com/store/product/196/eensy-weensy-spider-visuals?inf_contact_key=3ace7b220e59db583419755f9c655f3c9b96c18a297428881380d10d2ce9e4df
Grade 1-3
Here’s a glimpse at one of the live Redondo Beach summer trainings after we had created a spider web of a white yarn ball. Every time we sang the phrase “The spider kept on spinning,” the yarn ball was rolled to someone across the circle. (Remember to hold the yarn before you roll the ball again!) This video shows the very end, when the spider catches the bugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Cmn0FpWCo&index=1&list=PLcGAMvU2YN-VW1J18R_XC-Szv9BA1uJF1&inf_contact_key=5163f7817c8cf316833c433254b105418c8827a82f38f43ee986802eb3480f30
And here’s the lesson plan.
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Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
I love doing this Valentine mixer (sing “Heel toe on the line, will you be my Valentine?” OR Will You Be a Friend of Mine?). I have added a hand clapping B section to practice some timing and coordination too.
Check out Music Box Downloads for the music/lesson and the recording of the accordion accompaniment.
Here’s a Snowman scale song that’s great for my sweet little one-octave glockenspiel. Members, click on the picture to get lesson ideas for the Snowman scale song!
For an awesome scale song for a farm theme lesson or concert, check out “Baby Birdie” on pages 39-41 in Farm Songs and the Sounds of Moo-sic.
Don’t forget to use your Music Box discounts when ordering from Music Rhapsody.
Love and Happy Music Making,
Aug 13, 2024 | Early Childhood, Orff Training
If you have seen my “Orff on the Go! Advice from Lynn” video in Music Box, then you know that an
Orff-class–in-a-box is not a myth!! For preschool Orff teachers who are always on the move, have a lack storage space (or NONE), or have limited resources to purchase Orff instruments, there are ways to teach the Music Box Orff lessons and truly give your students the musical enrichment they need and deserve!
I promise it is possible to have beatkeepers, woods, metals, high sounds, low sounds and more all in one plastic box! Small sized, but high quality glockenspiels and xylophones can be arranged to fit instruments for 12-15 students in each box. For most one box could suffice and two would make space for more barred instruments or unpitched percussion.
Suggested items for “Orff to Go Instrumenatrium:”
– Plastic bin 28 1/2 X 17 1/2 inches (measured from the inside)
– Lynn Kleiner glockenspiels – amazing little instruments that come with mallets and removable bars
https://www.musicrhapsody.com/Children-s-Glockenspiel/
– One-octave xylophones (1/3 – 1/4 the price of a regular, full sized xylophone!)
https://www.musicrhapsody.com/Handcrafted-Xylophone/
– Two-octave xylophones – our beat keepers! One would suffice for our basses, but more would be great
https://www.musicrhapsody.com/Large-12-Note-Handcrafted-Xylophone-4050L1/
– Bubble wrap!! – please keep your precious instruments protected and safe!
With two beat keepers on the two-octave xylophone, more woods on the one-octaves, and as many glockenspiels as you need to fill out the metals, you could easily carry a box of instruments for 12-15 students! Well, it may not be easy to carry… but easy to compared to the struggle against budgets, space, and time!
And that is how to build your Orff Instrumentarium to Go!! Watch “Orff on the Go” in Videos to see how mine looks!
P.S. PLEASE DON’T FORGET your 25% (I know, hard to believe) Music Box Member discount on all of the instruments suggested above. Visit the store at www.musicrhapsody.com to purchase these and other high quality, affordable instruments for your classroom.
Nov 16, 2020 | Parents & Students
Do you have a child in your life who loves music? Look no further! Here are our top 5 favorite holiday gifts for children who are music lovers.
1. Instrument Kits
Fill your child’s holidays with never ending fun! Our instrument kits are all high quality, rigorously safety tested, age appropriate instruments that coincide with your child’s developmental needs. The kits are color coded for each age group. Click here for details.
2. Ukulele & Beginner Book
Know someone who wants to learn the Ukulele? This is the perfect place to start! Diamond Head features high-quality ukuleles, bringing the joys of making music to everyone! Available in a rainbow of colors, including mahogany with a matching gig bag.
Once you have the instrument make sure you get a great book to start learning right away. We recommend The Daily Ukulele Book! Strum a different song every day with easy arrangements of 365 of your favorite songs in one big songbook. All arrangements feature melody, lyrics and ukulele chord grids in uke-friendly keys, perfect for groups of one or one hundred. Includes hits by The Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan, folk songs, kids’ songs, pop songs, Christmas carols, Broadway, and Hollywood tunes. So much fun!!
3. Glockenspiel
The Kids Make Music Glockenspiel is part of a series of percussion instruments designed by Lynn Kleiner with world renowned percussion brand Remo especially for kids. It produces a sweet, bright tone that is accurately pitched with a one octave diatonic range from C to C. Because of this the sound of your children practicing will be bright and cheery! Kids love the cheerful color patterns and letter names featured on each individual key. Parents love the safe, kid-friendly, rounded edges and removable bars.
4. Floor Tom
This fun drum is the perfect instrument for young children – it’s part of the series of percussion instruments designed by Lynn Kleiner with world renowned percussion brand Remo. The mallets are easy to use and the tone is pleasant to your ear. This instrument will help your child with coordination, timing, and fine motor skills. Its compact design makes it easy to use as a mini gathering drum for friends to join in.
5. Finger Puppets
Our adorable puppets make wonderful holiday gifts! Full size and finger puppets from butterflies to chipmunks we are sure you will find a puppet your child will love! For little fingers and hands, we recommend our finger puppets! Kids will have hours o fun If you love the puppets too be sure to check out the full size which fits an adult hand!
BONUS! GIFT CERTIFICATES
If you are interested in signing your child, niece, nephew, grandchild, or friend up for music classes – get them a gift certificate! Let them choose which instrument will work best for their family and which classes work best as well. We offer classes remotely, in person, and privately.
Jun 22, 2010
A tradition in the fall for our classes, use these bright felt leaves in 5 different colors for Five little leaves, In All Kinds of Weather, Kids Make Music Book page 18 and CD. The Lynn Kleiner glockenspiels and xylophone add a wonderful accompaniment and colored scarves are a must!
Mar 28, 2010
The best way to introduce this song is with this adorable Five little Monkeys felt set. The song is from the book, Jungle Beat Book page 14. Using Lynn Kleiner hand drums, triangles, xylophone and glockenspielwill give the children an opportunity to accompany themselves. Play along to the Jungle Beat CD!
Mar 28, 2010
Everyone loves these funny spiders, they’re in different sizes with a sun, rain cloud and beautiful house complete with rain spout. For a delightful E. W. Spider lesson plan; see In All Kinds of Weather Book page 24. Use four Lynn Kleiner glockenspiels with the plan and you’ll have a huge hit for 4-6 year olds.
MORE IDEAS!
Combine your “Eency Weency Spider” felts with the adorable “Twinkle “Twinkle” felts for the beloved song “Sally go round the Sun” from In All Kinds of Weather book page 16. With both sets, you’ll have Sally looking out the window, a sun and a moon. The chimney top is on the house! Great for helping little music makers remember the words!
EVEN MORE IDEAS!
See In All Kinds of Weather, Kids Make Music book page 27. Combine your E.W Spider. felt set with the Mister Sun felt set and have a delightful visual for “It Rained a Mist and “Three Little Ladybugs”. Rain, sun, wind, and thunder cloud felts encourage language development and participation.
Mar 25, 2010
Purple-trimmed backpack contains:
Big Kids Instrument Kit with or without DVD
- Small Ocean Drum: Looks as good as it sounds! Children love the delightful ocean characters and colorful beads inside the blue trimmed ocean drum! Play it like a hand drum …or create the sound of ocean waves by tipping the drum slowly from one side to the other.
- Children’s Glockenspiel: It may look like many others, but this one is very special! This colorful glockenspiel has a very sweet tone quality that is accurately pitched with a diatonic range from C to C. The rounded edges and removable bars make this especially child friendly. Pair of mallets included.” This high quality instrument is great for early childhood in that letter names are indicated on each of the individual colored bars.
