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13 Musical Storytelling Activities for Kids

September 30, 2022 By Sara Mullett 22 Comments

Our musical storytelling series  has been so much fun! From imaginative play and puppets, to rhythm and story activities, there are so many wonderful ways to integrate these favourite stories that your kids know and love with simple songs and movement.

Musical Storytelling Activities for Kids

Musical Storytelling Activities

1. Musical Storytelling with Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The printable resources in this post make your own puppet theatre and stick puppets – literally hours of fun!

Musical Storytelling Songs - Goldilocks and the Three Bears

2. Musical Storytelling with Little Red Riding Hood puppets

Full set of  free printable puppets for Little Red Riding Hood to add to your homemade puppet theatre collection.

Little Red Riding Hood Free Printable Puppets Let's Play Music

3. Percussion and Rhythm Storytelling with Sound Effects for The Three Little Pigs 

We had so much fun with this! Everyone got completely involved and creative with all the sound effects!

 Musical Storytelling with Percussion : The Three Little Pigs

4. Musical Storytelling with There Was a Princess Long Ago

This traditional song tells the story of Sleeping Beauty, and can either be sung with actions or also played as a lovely circle game

Musical Storytelling There Was a Princess Long Ago

5. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Action Song Activity

This old favourite appeals to babies through to 5 year olds – everyone knows the story so they all join in!

Goldilocks and the Three bears : Song with actions and story telling - Let's Play Music

6. We’re Going On A Bear Hunt

There are so many ways that this favourite book from Michael Rosen can be used to inspire activities, it’s just so much fun simply shared as a call & response reading.

But another brilliant way is to get imaginative with adding your own sound effects. Allocate a different sound effect to each child and then after a bit of practice, read the story and get the kids to add in the effects at the right moment.

And now some more inspiration from other blogs!

Musical Storytelling from This Reading Mama

Reading with Sound Effects for We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (pictured) from Reading Confetti

Storytelling Through Classical Music from This Reading Mama

Five Little Ducks Singing and Sensory Storytelling from The Imagination Tree

Musical Storytelling Craft from Nurturestore

Storytelling Through Song from Inspiration Laboratories 

ABC’s of Storytelling from A Mom With a Lesson Plan – go and check out letter S!

DIY Pom Pom Puppets for singing the story of Three Blind Mice from Mollymoo over on Nurturestore (pictured)

Filed Under: Literacy Tagged With: Fairy Tales, Puppets, Round-up, Storytelling

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Comments

  1. Elizabeth Nuti says

    December 20, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    Dear Sara- Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and care in planning all these amazing posts!! We old music teachers are always looking for new ideas!! You are a huge blessing! I appreciate your generosity in sharing with us Americans!🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧Please check out my website for literary strength: booksbyelizabethnuti.com. Happy Christmas

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  2. Jeanette K says

    July 6, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    This is terrific! Thanks so much!

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 9, 2018 at 11:14 am

      You’re welcome! I hope you and your class have fun with some musical story telling!

      Reply
  3. katepickle says

    November 26, 2014 at 11:54 pm

    Oh I love these ideas and my kids will too!
    Really loving your blog!!

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    • Sara Mullett says

      November 27, 2014 at 6:57 pm

      Thanks 🙂 Glad you’re all enjoying Let’s Play Music, we love the Story telling activities too!

      Reply
  4. Jasmine P says

    July 9, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    What a great post! Thanks for sharing!

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:49 am

      Thanks Jasmine!

      Reply
  5. Joanne Higgins says

    July 8, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    great ideas, many thanks for sharing xx

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  6. jessica says

    July 7, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    Love these ideas. Thanks for sharing!

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  7. Karen S. says

    July 6, 2014 at 6:28 am

    I love the idea of combining music and story. I think adding additional sensory input to activity can only stimulate learning.

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:49 am

      I completely agree Karen! Thanks for your comment!

      Reply
  8. Mary P says

    June 30, 2014 at 1:16 am

    Love it — so much fun telling stories we all know.

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:52 am

      Thanks Mary!

      Reply
  9. Diana says

    June 24, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    These are great, thanks for sharing!

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:52 am

      Thanks Diana! And thank you for stopping by!

      Reply
  10. Michelle Cannon says

    June 24, 2014 at 8:52 am

    Cute ideas!

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  11. Vesper says

    June 23, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    I hope you don’t have to be musical to use these as I would be hopeless

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:53 am

      Definitely not – it’s all about having a go! (And I always find that the kids don’t mind if you sing out of tune!!)

      Reply
  12. Carolyn Wilhelm says

    June 23, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    wonderful, engaging, educational, ideas—thanks so much—pinned

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:54 am

      Thank you Carolyn! And thank you for pinning too!

      Reply
  13. Heather Meek says

    June 22, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    Love them all! They are perfect for my retelling center in my second grade classroom.
    ~Heather

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    • Sara Mullett says

      July 27, 2014 at 11:54 am

      Thanks Heather! Hope the kids have fun with them!

      Reply

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