Music Activities

Looking for engaging, musical games to play with your students? Here are a few of my favorite games and activities for elementary music classes, children's choirs, and elementary group classes.

DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Super cute DIY Maracas are a fun musical instrument craft for kids of all ages. Use these homemade musical instruemnts as a fun craft or music activity !

Fun and educational activities to engage kids with music! 40 DIY musical instruments and music crafts plus activities for kids of all ages!

Simple DIY water xylophone takes a couple minutes to make and is a great sound activity, experiment, and music activity for kids too!

Here are some examples of body percussion and why it's important to teach this skill, along with 7 simple activity ideas.

Do you use scarves in your elementary music class? In this post, we’re talking all about why you should use them and some different scarf music activities that work so well in the elementary music room. My students and I had a lot of fun with scarves during social distancing and when teaching on a cart. And now, I still love using them with all types of activities.

These fun Musical Games with ping pongs are great for music classes, they're fun, cheap and easy to set up and always very popular!

This is a fun and messy piece of process art that the kids will love. Turn up the music and then drum and splatter and paint away.