Music is an excellent therapy for everything, it stimulates the intelligence of the baby and the child and it is shown that it helps in the learning problems, disorders and deficiencies of children, increases their self-esteem ... That is why we will get going and propose 15 activities with music to stimulate children's creativity.
In addition, to carry out most of these proposals we will not need preparation, nor a special place or specific materials, so that we can have fun learning at any time.
1) Make music with the body, that is, make "body percussion", create sounds by patting the hands, patting the legs, the belly, the skunks ...
2) Experiment with the sounds of the mouth, since a long "a" does not sound the same as a short one, a "u" with a very closed mouth, covering the nose, whistling ... You can invent a song in a language invented with varied sounds and words not existing in our language.
In Babies and morePon music in your children's lives: nine benefits of music in babies and children3) "Dialogue" with the sounds of the body or mouth. It is a mixture of the two previous activities and can come in handy for young children, since we put a base and they repeat (as an echo) or try to respond with a variation of sound or musicality.
4) Imitate sounds of the environment, animals, appliances, play with onomatopoeia ... In the park, at home or on excursion, we are always surrounded by sounds, you just have to pay attention.
5) Play musical instruments suitable for kids like tambourines, maracas, flutes, children's guitars, drums ... trying to find rhythms or accompanying a song. If you want to continue your musical training, here we explain how to choose the most suitable instrument.
6) Invent or build instruments. It is not necessary against with an instrument "to use". Many everyday objects then make "music" (or at least rhythms) and we can also create drums, maracas or homemade flutes, recycle to create instruments ...
7) Listen to the sounds of the environment, both natural and artificial, and describe them in your own words to be more aware of our surroundings and expand language skills.
8) * Draw the sounds **: a variant of the previous activity, but that does not describe with words but with drawings, blowing your imagination and developing fine motor skills.
9) Imagine stories from a sound, tell a story or introduce the reason for a sound or music in an invented story.
10) We can also do the reverse exercise: from a story, we will put a soundtrack, adding a song that we like or inventing a music for that story.
In Babies and more A new benefit of music in children: learning to play the piano helps them acquire language11) Dance. There are many reasons to dance with our children, it is a fun and empowering exercise that helps to disinhibit. With the little ones we can perform basic rhythms (binary and ternary) through body movement, with or without displacement ... but let's not forget the free and "crazy" dance.
12) Students of our children. The kids can be the best dance teachers, so you have to choose your favorite music and create a choreography full of imagination.
13) Record ourselves by singing or dancing, we can record our own music video, but to make it look good we will have to rehearse before!
14) Play run games, potato run and other simple traditional dances.
15) Put a soundtrack to your mood. What song suggests sadness? What music do you find joyful? What would be the music for anger?
We hope that the rhythm does not decline and that you put into practice these activities with music and a lot of rhythm that stimulate children's creativity, in addition to improving your self-esteem. Anytime and anywhere is ideal for fun.
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