With lockdown restricting what we can do at the moment, here's some ideas for activity ideas with a musical twist this half-term to keep you and your little ones busy!
1. Guess That Sound!
A great game to boost your child’s listening skills!
1. Get your child to close their eyes and simply make a sound using anything in the room.
2. When they open their eyes, encourage them to guess the sound they heard!
3. Can they recreate the same noise as you?
Some of the sounds you may be able to use are keys jingling, opening and closing a cupboard & drawing the curtains etc.
2. Musical statues
A game for one or more people, musical statues can be enjoyed by kids of all ages.
You will need:
Music player
Space to dance
How to play:
Play the music and ask the kids to dance.
When the music stops, the children should freeze like statues.
The kids have to stand like that for a minute or so, and anyone who moves, giggles, or even wobbles when the music is not playing is out.
When the music is back on, they continue dancing.
The last person dancing on at the end is the champion statue!
3. Make a cardboard guitar
You will need:
Cardboard box
Pencil
Scissors
Glue
Paints
Paintbrush
Pens
String
Tape
Step 1: Draw a life-size guitar on the long end of an appliance box. You can make an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar shape.
Step 2: Trace around the neck of the guitar on cardboard to make another neck; make this one a bit longer than the original.
Step 3: Cut both pieces out, and glue the second neck to the back of the first neck. This will reinforce your guitar so you can strum wildly! If you've made an acoustic guitar, cut out a hole in the body of the guitar, so it looks like a real guitar.
Step 4: Paint your guitar however you'd like.
Step 5: When the paint is dry, draw frets (the lines along the neck of the guitar).
Step 6: Make four small holes for an electric guitar or six small holes for an acoustic guitar along the top of the neck and four or six holes at the bottom third of the body of the guitar.
Step 7: Measure the length from the top holes to the bottom holes, and add four inches.
Step 8: Cut four or six pieces of string that length. Thread a piece of string through the front of a top hole, and tape the line down on the back of the guitar with tape; repeat for the bottom hole. Do the same with the other holes and other pieces of string.
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