Music Play
Find music and musical play ideas for young children of all abilities, including reviews of our favorite music toys and tutorials on how to make your own DIY musical instruments.
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5 Fun DIY Musical Instruments for Kids
Looking for a rainy day activity you can do on a budget? Get your little rock stars into these easy, crafty DIY musical instruments with stuff you have at home.
Autism, Music Play
6 Ways Music Therapy Can Support Children With Autism
By harnessing the power of music, autistic children can develop communication, social, emotional, cognitive, and motor skills. Here’s how!
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Music and Movement: Enhancing Preschool Learning Through Songs
Music and movement activities for preschoolers can help enhance their cognitive skills and brain development while developing social, emotional, and academic skills.
Music Play, Visual Impairment
Why We Love Music Therapy for Our Blind Son
Jennie writes about how her son, Max, responds to music. Other therapies failed Max and often stressed him out, but Music Therapy has been very successful for him!
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Skwitch: A new way to make music
The Skwitch is an accessible device that connects to your iPhone, turning your phone into a music making machine with coding and accessibility features too!
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Using Music to Connect the Generations
Grandparents love to sing to their grandkids. Aside from being a wonderful way to bond with your young child, music is a great tool to connect the generations and help...
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Skoog Music Cube
The Skoog is a soft music cube that you can manipulate to create different instrument sounds. It's accessible to children with various disabilities, including physical disabilities.
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Music Play, Tactile Arts and Crafts
Make Your Own Chinese New Year Drum!
Although it's often seen as a children's toy or a fun sound effect at Chinese New Year, the Bolang Gu is actually an instrument that dates back to ancient China....
Music Play, Visual Impairment
Making Music Accessible to Blind Musicians
A revolutionary 3-D printing system makes music easier to read for blind musicians. Invented by a blind South Korean musician as part of her doctoral dissertation, it makes music accessible...
iPad Apps and Accessibility, Music Play
Bebot Music App Review
Bebot is a simple sound cause and effect app that makes funny synth robot sounds. Touch the screen and make the robot sing!
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Make Your Own Morris Bells!
Daria shows you how to make morris bells, a folk music tradition from England and the British Isles. Making the bells is easy and dancing with them is fun!
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Grow Your Own Musical Instrument in Your Garden!
Daria shows us how to grow gourds and turn them into musical instruments like shekeres and guiros! Plant your seeds in the spring and you'll have your own home-grown instruments...
iPad Apps and Accessibility, Music Play
Bloom Music App Review
Eric Jerman reviews the generative music iPad app, Bloom. Bloom allows children to create gentle, soft music patterns and bubbles of color with just the tap of a finger. The...
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Make Your Own Gong!
Learn how to make your own Chinese gong using simple objects you probably have in your kitchen. Decorate your gong with tactile crafts and make lots of noise!
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Make Your Own Sistrum, an Egyptian Rattle
Daria shows you how to make your own Sistrum, an ancient Egyptian instrument, out of a wire coat hanger, electrical tape and buttons!