Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Easy Kid-Made Instruments

Easy Kid-Made Instruments -

Take these Easter eggs leftover plastic and make these kid-instruments made easy ! Our preschoolers love to end our game instruments of the day with our favorite music. We dance around the room and have so much fun! These musical shakers fit well in small hands and are easy to shake, shake, shake!


Easy Kid-Made Instruments Using Leftover Plastic  Easter Eggs!



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Easter Egg Shakers
What you will have need:

  • Plastic Easter eggs (if you do not have Easter leftovers, you can find them at a discount later)
  • Popcorn kernels
  • Tape
  • Stickers


That's he!


Preschool Music
Fill a bowl with corn kernels and invite your children to fill them. They can either soak in the bowl or….

Preschool Instruments

...scoop grains in hand and pour in the egg.

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Snap egg closed.

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Secure with tape.

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Decorate egg with stickers of your choice.

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Turn on music and shake, shake, shake the eggs!


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Here are more musical activities:

  • Exploring Music with children (Spin educators On It)
  • Top Ten Toddler Tunes (Let's Play Music)
  • 4 instruments for the kids to do (Hands on as we grow)
  • songs and Props ( pre-Kinders)
  • DIY Musical Strummies (preschool Teach)
  • music 4 Games (And Comes Next L)

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