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Ideas for classical music for kids ages 2-5 that will increase their language development, memory, math & motor skills. Easy to implement and your child will reap big academic and learning rewards!

Create a baby music bin to entertain your little one. Using noise makers and homemade rattles, create an auditory sensory experience for baby.

There are so many advantages to using rhythm sticks with toddlers and preschoolers. This collection includes activities and resources to get you started at home or school.

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Here’s 10 ways to use a parachute in the music classroom. Activities will help students learn and practice music concepts. Parachutes can be used for so many fun activities in the music room. I’ve discovered that they are especially helpful during the latter part of the school year when students are more “squiggly” than ever! […]

Are you looking for fun activities to help develop your child’s gross motor skills? These 29 gross motor activities are not only great for gross motor development, but will keep your child entertained for hours!

You don't have to be 'musical' to make music with your kids! Make a simple music shaker and try some of these easy music activities with your kids!

Help your active preschooler learn and grow with fun music and movement activities. Try some of our example activities with your child for sensory learning.

Homemade musical instruments are a way to get kids involved in the process of open-ended play. Whether they are involved in the steps it takes to make the musical instrument or not, the creativity in

Silent or Loud Sound Game helps child with their sense of hearing but the game also help children to listen more carefully and pay attention.

Do you know what is perfect for a rainy day? A playdate? Any sick day? Or a just-about-an-anything day? Homemade musical instruments! If you're not sure what to do with the kiddos, making a homemade musical instrument band is the answer! There is so much fun to be had and amazing memories to be made

Ideas for classical music for kids ages 2-5 that will increase their language development, memory, math & motor skills. Easy to implement and your child will reap big academic and learning rewards!

Sensory bags are a great way for little ones still in the mouthing stage to explore play materials. Today, I made a few Halloween s...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! The idea for this fun activity came from my friend and the mama of one of Skyler's best buddies (who also, I think, happens to be Skyler's first little crush - he is always talking about her!). She told me about it when we met at the library for story time. She cut holes in a big cardboard box and they used colored balls to put in the different colored holes! I knew I wanted to make a similar activity for Skyler, because we are all about color sorting in our house right now! These two have known each other since Skyler was 5 weeks old! I didn't have a cardboard box that would have worked to cut six holes on the top of, big enough to put balls through, so I started brainstorming other ideas. I decided to use a tri-fold poster board. I had a bowl that I could fit down the poster board perfectly three times, so I opened the poster board and traced around the bowl six times, two by three down the poster board. Since I am going to have the back of the board showing, I traced them on the inside of the board, so any pencil markings wouldn't show. When I finished tracing the holes, I cut them out carefully with a X-acto knife. After cutting out the traced circles, our poster board was ready to toss our colored toys through, but not yet complete. Next, I had to give each of the holes a color so Skyler knew where to put the different colored objects. To make the color around the holes, I traced the bowl that I used on the tri-fold poster and the next size up to make a ring onto poster board (which I used so it would hold up after a lot of use!) After tracing six rings, I cut them out, leaving them as squares (or close to squares). We painted the back of the squares to leave the pencil markings free of paint. To make them really colorful, we used the same color mixing technique we did for our color sorter and fine motor caterpillar and then we painted with sponges! This was our first time painting with sponges, and Skyler had a lot of fun. Once the pieces of poster board were dry, I cut out our rings and put them onto the tri-fold board. I knew we would use our ball pit and colored sensory balls to toss through the holes of our poster board (though we haven't used them yet - the bean bags are really fun to toss!), but I thought it would be fun to make some colorful bean bags for Skyler to throw as well. To make these simple bean bags, I cut pieces of felt into quarters and filled them will popcorn kernels. I started putting them together with spray adhesive and then switched to hot glue gun because it was a lot faster and held together better. I left some room on the side because I knew that I was going to cut off part of the bag, so they would be more of a square shape when completed. Before and after cutting off the excess felt. To finish our poster board, I wrote the color words next to the different holes with crayon and to make our color game a bit more cute, I used the extra felt to make bunting along the tri-fold board. I added them with hot glue and our fun new color sorting activity was complete! Skyler came to pose :) This activity was a huge success with my honey! I knew Skyler would like it and have fun putting the bean bags through the holes, but I was impressed with how accurately he was able to identify the colors. I made this game more as a teaching tool, but it ended up being more of a fun practice! I found it absolutely adorable how he would stand in front of the board and look down at the color he had in hand, then carefully look around the board before placing the bean bag in the correct hole! We played with this game all afternoon and I know this color sorting activity and gross motor play (I put the bean bags across the room so he has to run and get a new one every time!) will be popular in our home for a very long time! Skyler says purple and blue frequently, and can say red, green, and yellow. He said orange for the first time when playing this sorting activity though! Completing this activity took a lot of steps, but none of them required much time and the overall amount of time I put into making it will be so worth it in the end. I loved using the tri-fold board because it is so sturdy and I can easily store it behind the desk in our living room when it folds up. This game will last us forever, and we will be able to use it different ways as Skyler grows. I know we will use this activity at least for the next year or two. Another way to play for older children would be to do 'color math' and instead of just finding the colors you could use a prompt like: "Red + Blue = ?" or "Green - Yellow = ?" You could also do two at a time "These two colors make Orange." (Edit 4/13/14) Skyler and I pulled out this favorite activity and tried it with our ball pit balls for the first time! It was a lot of fun. We especially enjoyed tossing the balls through the holes. It was harder than it would seem ;) It was so cute seeing Skyler try to throw it in usually say "I miss!" and laugh like crazy. He did throw them in a few times. He also had fun clacking them together and referring to them as the instruments like our percussion tubes!

Make a nursery rhyme singing basket for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy singing their favourite songs with parents and care-givers! Fantastic for early language development and creativity for the very smallest children and a great activity for children learning English as an additional language too. I recently wrote about the fantastic benefits of rhyming...Read More »

Getting ready for Halloween in our house has always involved a lot of pumpkins.

I love FALL activities!!! Here is one we did with our first graders! The pictures turned out sooooo sweet. THIS IS THE HALLWAY DISPLAY. So funny... each students' personality came out for this project!! Each student had to re-write the poem of the month. It was called Fall Leaves. I have included a close up of the poem and the book I used to get the idea. We took pictures of each student with a leaf on their head. After they wrote their poem they got leaves that the poem talked about.....1 orange, 2 brown, 3 yellow, 3 green, 2 red. They placed the leaves all over the matted poem. We studied this poem in morning meeting. We used math, sight words, rhyming, patterns and fluency!! All with one poem!!! They love it and I can hear them saying it to themselves all the time!!!Crystal Springs Book SO go get this book!!! Each poem is loaded with great ideas and even ones that you can add your own special touches to ( this idea was my own)!!! Happy Fall from Holly ONE of the Lemonade Stand Teachers

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Explore painting and drawing to music with infants and toddlers.

Like many children my daughter loves music. She loves to sing & to dance and bang away on her different instruments. Last night’s footprint craft was inspired by this love of music. This little xylophone is cute & colorful and only took us a few minutes to make. Here’s how… Hold your child’s foot vertically & […]

Conocimos en Reggio Emilia un proyecto titulado «Paisajes sonoros» que nos pareció muy interesante y con muchas posibilidades. La dotación de material de las aulas reggianas es muy distinta de las …

Jungle Theme Homeschool Preschool. Crafts, music, math activities, gross motor activities, picture books, and more! Perfect amount of activities for one week of EASY home pre-k.

I've got some fun winter movement movement and music activities you can use to help students stay active engaged during the colder weather.

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Texture Road Sensory Activity to work on expanding vocabulary and description words

Create simple Vestibular sensory input with these quick and fun tennis ball games. Easy gross motor activities for kids.

Babies to Bookworms provides a review of musical board books from Jam Jam Books which aim to introduce babies and toddlers to classical music.

What a cute sun craft for kids! This doily craft idea is perfect as a summer craft for kids and is super cheerful to brighten your day.

Looking for some educational arts and crafts for 3-year-olds? These seven clever options promote growth and development while keeping your little one entertained.

Create a simple play activity for your baby using an empty wipes container. Baby Ball Drop holds baby's attention and promotes great hand-eye skills.