Music is such an important part of life in general.

It can change a mood, encourage learning, and be a learning tool in itself.

If you are one that has instruments in your home, be grateful for the benefits that they provide.

homemade musical instruments for kids can be super easy and really fun for kids. This week we made a Paper Plate Tambourine and it was so much fun to make a diy musical instruments for kids. This instrument craft for kids is fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.

This week we made aPaper Plate Tambourineand it was so much fun to make adiy musical instruments for kids.

Thisinstrument craft for kidsis fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.

Thismusical instrument craftonly requires a few supplies and beyond that creativity can take over.

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It can also use craft supplies that you already have at home.

We chose rainbow like colors, because those are bright and fun.

We decorated the outside of the paper plate first, before turning it into the tambourine.

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We cut squares of sticky foam.

I had her peel the back off, because this is a fabulous fine motor skill strengthening activity.

Place beans in the bottom of the folded plate.

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Using a hot glue gun, connect the two sides together.

Once the glue is dry, shake the newly created tambourine.

This musical instrument will hold up against even the most aggressive shaker!

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FREE Music Theory Worksheets and lapbook to teach kids about music

Kids love making music! Here are 40 super clever homemade musical instruments you can make at home. Make your own instrument and then use these diy music instruments to teach music to kids in the classroom or at home with engagin music activities. These music crafts for kids are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grdae, 4th grade, and up!

FREE Introduction to Music Book for Kids - LOVE this! Kids will trace key terminology, color pictures, practice making notes, and learn about music. This is a great for beginning music theory with preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade #music #musictheory #musicforkids

Looking for a FUN summer activity for kids that is educational too? This fun music activity for kids helps kids of all ages learn music notes while having fun with a music notes game that was made for summertime. This water balloon game is perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. As they play this music game for kids they will learn music notes for kids!

Introduce kids to the world of music with these super cute music worksheets. These free music worksheets include activities for pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. The free fun music worksheets pdf include patterns, colors, musical order, musical instrument worksheets, musical note names, music sybols, musi I spy, musical notes on the staff, and some basic music theory for elementary age students.  Simply print the music theory worksheets and you are ready to play and learn!

Is music theory part of your homeschool? It is easier than you think to teach kids how to read music on the treble clef and base clef with this handy music notes chart. This music note chart is a free music printable for kids to reference as they learn to read music, learn piano, and more! There are colorful and black and white options in 3 sizes! Use this printable music notes chart with kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, and middle school students too. Simply download pdf file with music notes chart printable and you are ready to work on reading music with this note chart.

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Kids will have fun making these super cute DIY Maracas. Not only is this a fun musical instrument craft for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders, but a fun music activity for kids too! These DIY musical instruments for kids couldn’t be easier to make and they are loads of fun to play with and make music as well. Whether you are a parent or teacher, you will love making these homamde musical instruments!

Kids will love these clever, free printable Piano Practice Sheets. Your young musician will have fun keeping track of how long they have practiced the piano, guitar, flute, trumpet, or other musical instrument as they hole punch the musical notes! Such a cute idea for piano teachers, parents, and homeschoolers.

These super cute musical instrument worksheets offer preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students the chance to learn about instruments while practicing some foundational counting, numbers, alphabet letters, tracing, and more. The music instruments worksheets help children learn the names of the guitar, ukelele, xylophone, harp, piano, saxaphone, drums, tuba, violin, maracas, bagpipes, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, french horn, harmonica, bassoon, harp, and more. Simply download and print the instrument worksheets and you are ready to play and learn!

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FREE Piano Flashcards - kids will have fun learning piano notes with these free printable piano flashcards for kids and adults of all ages learning to play the piano #piano #flashcards #music

Sneak in a fun music activity while working on number recognition with these these preschool number worksheets where children will color by code to reveal a fun music notes and instrument pictures. These free printable music color by number work on numbers and strengthening fine motor skills too. Use these preschool color by number with preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students! Simply print pre-k color by number and youa re ready to play and learn with an engaging activity for children.

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If your children are learning about musical instruments for kids you will love these handy free music worksheets for elementary age students. There are a variety of exercises including musical instruments pictures with names, the 4 types of instruments, and more.  Simply download the music instruments worksheets and you are ready to go!

Grab our free printable music listening activity worksheets to help students learn to appreciate music! These free printable music listening worksheets are perfect for introducing music appreciate into your home or classroom These music appreciation worksheets are perfect for kids of all ages; simply download pdf file and you are ready to go!

Grab these musical instrument coloring pages to help children learn about various instruments found in bands, orchestras, and chamber groups. This set of coloring pages instruments focuses on introducing kids to the woodwind instruments. You will find pictures of woodwind instruments, interesting facts, history, and even a chance to hear the instruments played. Simply download the pdf file with images of woodwind instruments to learn more about the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone.

As children are learning the various instruments in a band or orchestra, they need lots of practice learning to recognizing the different types of instruments. This super cute, fun, and free printable instrument worksheet pack is perfet for students of all ages. Simply download the musical instrument worksheets to practice spotting the different instruments and their families.

Introduce students the instruments that make beautiful music in bands and orchestras with these free printable musical instruments flash cards. These musical instruments flashcards are a handy visual for teaching children of all ages about the wide variety of instruments and their families. Simply download and print the music instruments flashcards, cut and they are ready to use.

Teach your students about the orchestra for kids and all the amazing musical insruments that bring its music to life with these free printable orchestra worksheets. Children will learn about the orchestra layout plus the instrument families with fun, engaging worksheet pages in both color and black and white. Download this pdf pack to learn about string instruments in an orchestra, brass instruments in the orchestra, woodwind instruments in the orchestra, and percussion instruments in the orchestra with all ages.

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Teaching kids about famous artist Monet with this fun Monet art projects. This  easy-to-make tissue paper craft makes a beautiful Monet Art Project for Kids that will brighten up any room while helping to explore a famous artists for kids while having fun creating beautiful art, slowing down to appreciate the pretty things around us, and learning to express themselves too. This art projects for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students.

FREE Uppercase Letter Crafts - you will love these no prep alphabet crafts - just print, color, cut, paste, and tape / glue together #preschool #alphabet #craftsforkids

Kids will have fun learning all their letters with these fun alphabet crafts. There is a fun letter craft for each letter from A to Z. These alphabet crafts for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners are fun and easy-t0-make with construction paper, scissors, and glue!

Get ready to say WOW! You and your kids are going to love making this clever and beautiful tin foil art! This Amazing aluminum foil art uses a simple technique to make a truly stunning work of art from simple flowers to butterflies, crosses to houses, animals to any picture or design you can dream up. Try making foil art for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids in first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders too. All you need are a few simple materials to make a stunning work of art with this tin foil crafts.

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Apple Crafts

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Kids will have a blast making this bauble craft with our free ornament printables and construction paper! This snowman ornament craft makes beautiful diy snowman ornaments to decorate your tree this holiday season! Try this Christmas ornament crafts for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and up! Simply print christmas printables and you are ready to make this Christmas crafts for preschoolers.

Beautiful snowflake craft for kids using chromatography creates colorful Christmas or winter craft ideas to use as decorations!

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Whether fall has just started and you are looking for a pretty Autumn craft for kids or you have beautiful colored leaves raining down around you, these leaf crafts for kids are lots of fun. Try these leaf activities with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders. You will love the creative and unique fall leaf projects for kids of all ages. Which of these ideas will you try first?

This super cute name craft is perfect for October! Simply print the spider printable pdf to make this name craft for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners. Children will work on letter recogniton and learning their name as they make the spider craft and add in all the spider letters of their name. This is such a fun halloween activity!

This quick and easy pumpkin puffy paint recipes is great for making really pretty and fun-to-make fall pumpkins. we will show you how to make puffy paint to use in pumpkin crafts for kids. These fall crafts are great for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. This open-ended autumn craft is sure to be a favorite at your house!

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Fall Craft for Preschoolers

This gorgeous paper plate apple craft makes such a lovely apple craft for kids to make in September, for an apple theme, or as they celebrate with a back to school craft. The apple crafts preschool, toddler, pres-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders creates a cross section of an apple using a variety of techniques that strengthen coordination and hand muscles while creating a apple art project.

Looking for a really pretty, fun-to-make apple craft? This apple craft for kids is not only an easy apple craft, but cute and gret process art too. Try this apple craft for kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, preschool, pre-k, and toddler children as September crafts, engaging apple art and craft for your upcoing Apple theme, or a fall craft for kids.

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Kids are going to love this simple, fun to make bleeding tissue paper firework craft! All you need are a few simple materials to try this firework crafts project with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade,2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students. There are so many fun variations with these firework craft ideas from independence day crafts to summer crafts for kids. Kids will love recreating these colorful fireworks for kids with a fun, SIMPLE, and beautiful fireworks craft for kids.

This pretty butterfly craft is as fun to make as it is beautiful! This shaving cream craft is surprisingly SIMPLE to make, but with incredibly complex colors in the marbling of painting with shaving cream. Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and up will want to make this butterfly craft for kids! So add this shaving cream art project to your bucket list of summer crafts for kids!

So many super cute flower crafts for kids using various different pasta noodles. These pasta crafts make beautiful and creative flower art for kids. We have so many flower craft ideas for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and more to make as summer crafts for kids. From bowtie hibiscus to penne sunflowers,  orecchiette pasta gladiolus to rotini asters, stellini hyacinth to castelane tulips - we have so many fun, easy flower crafts.

Make a pretty blooming hyacinth craft to celebrate the arrival of spring. This clever flower craft uses gift bows to make this EASY project!

Looking for fun pasta crafts to make with leftover dyed pasta? This super pretty mosaic pasta project allows kids to create beautiful pasta pictures by pressing different colored noodles into clay.  This pasta art is such a fun, engaging craft for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.

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Looking for a really fun and easy-to-make shamrock craft? This cute St Patricks Day Art project uses a template to make this st Patrick’s day preschool craft simple enough for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. All you need is black glue and colorful sharpie markers to make a truly beautiful four leaf clover or rainbow suncatcher craft. Simply download pdf file with st patrick’s day printable and you are ready to get crafty!

This super cute Dr Seuss Craft features the cute, curious, and sometimes mischevious Thing 1 2 3. So it is only fitting to make a cute thing 1 and thing 2 handprint craft featuring children who are too.  Use this thing 1 and thing 2 craft to celebrate Dr Seuss Day in March with a super cute and fun-to-make hand art project. This dr seuss activities for preschoolers is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students to celebrate a beloved children’s author on his birthday!

Snowly owls are so beautiful and kids go nuts over the cute snowy owl babies! Although they live in the arctic, they have been seen as far south as Tennessee and Georgia. Whether you get a chance to see one in person, are looking for a cute winter craft for kids, or are doing an owls theme. This adorable owl craft is a must! This snowy owl craft for kids is a fun project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This owl crafts for kids is fun and easy to make this January!

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