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Music Note Naming With Trains

February 16, 2022 By Sara Mullett Leave a Comment

Music Note Naming With Trains

All Kids love trains!  And by playing this music note naming with trains game, it’s a fun way to help them to really connect with the notes. It’s also great for teaching the order of the do- re-mi colours and the notes on the stave. This is also a great fun up-cycled craft activity too […]

Filed Under: 5+, How To Read Music, Introducing Do Re Mi, Music Theory games, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers Tagged With: Easy Music Theory, Free Printables, Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Note Recognition, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

The Pussycat : Do Re Mi Game for Preschoolers

August 19, 2021 By Sara Mullett 7 Comments

The Pussycat Do Re Mi Chime Bar Game for Preschoolers

Puppets are fantastic tools for teaching children will always be so keen to engage with an activity when invited by a little cat or a bear and it is amazing how a puppet can encourage even very shy children to take part. So when playing this Do Re Mi game, you can take a back seat […]

Filed Under: 5+, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Puppets, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

Little Mouse’s House Singing Game: Introducing Do-Re-Mi

July 27, 2015 By Sara Mullett 3 Comments

Little Mouse’s House is an engaging singing game which will encourage even very young children to join in and have a go! It’s very simple and excellent for building confidence. This activity can be sung at home with just two people, at a party, or just when some friends come to play. It’s perfect to sing after Hickory […]

Filed Under: Baby, Craft Activities, Creative Role Play, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Confidence Building, Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Kids Crafts, Mice, So-Mi, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

Chime Bar Action Game

June 15, 2015 By Sara Mullett Leave a Comment

The Chime bar Action game - stand up - sit down

The children in my classes call this chime bar action game ‘Stand-up! Sit-down!’  –  kids do have such a knack for saying it how it is! The game is very simple; each lesson you teach them one new interval and an action which goes with it. You warn them that whenever they hear these two […]

Filed Under: 5+, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Musical Memory Game, Musical Movement, Preschoolers Tagged With: Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Listening Game, Note Recognition, Tonic Sol-fah

Why Kids Should Play With Chime Bars

March 13, 2015 By Sara Mullett Leave a Comment

chime bars

Every child should have some chime bars (AKA resonator bells for US readers) or a xylophone to play with. They are such a wonderful tool for learning to listen, perform and read music. But they’re a good investment too, as they’re suitable for toddlers right up to children of 7 or 8 years old which […]

Filed Under: 5+, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Chime Bars, Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Listening Game, Tonic Sol-fah, xylophones

Hey Ho Here We Go! Learning So Mi

February 20, 2015 By Sara Mullett Leave a Comment

Learning so - mi songs to teach solfege

There are lots of great songs for learning So Mi and La, but I particularly like this Hey Ho Here We Go, it’s a fun circle and guessing game, and a song with movement is always such a great way to help with learning and understanding a lesson. Hey Ho Here We Go! is adapted […]

Filed Under: 5+, Action songs, Circle Games, How To Read Music, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Songs, Teaching Preschool Music Tagged With: Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

The Do Re Mi Staircase

April 16, 2014 By Sara Mullett 4 Comments

Do Re Mi Activities for Kids

An excellent way to learn and practice the Do Re Mi degrees of the scale is to use these little printable people. They can each be coloured to correspond with the colour of your chime bars. Using a staircase to illustrate each step or note is an engaging and visual way of teaching the spacial […]

Filed Under: 5+, Colour Songs, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers Tagged With: Bells, Chime Bars, Free Printables, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

Ring A Ring O’ Roses Circle Game

July 9, 2013 By Sara Mullett 6 Comments

Ring A Ring O' Roses

Ring A Ring O’ Roses, is one of the first circle games that children will play together, it is so well known that everyone knows the words and what to do. Like most very old traditional nursery rhymes the original words to Ring A Ring O’ Roses have a historical relevance. In this case the […]

Filed Under: Circle Games, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Movement, Nursery Rhymes Tagged With: First Nursery Rhyme Series, Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, So-Mi, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

The Balloon Song : Introducing Do Re Mi

February 15, 2013 By Sara Mullett 7 Comments

do re mi

The Balloon Song is a fun and engaging way to help children practice playing and recognising Do Re Mi and the intervals of the scale. This activity is perfect for toddlers because it’s simple melody and actions are so easy to pick up. And a beautiful, bright balloon comes in handy when singing this song […]

Filed Under: Action songs, Baby, How To Read Music, Introducing Do Re Mi, Musical Activities For..., Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: Exploring Pitch, High Notes Low Notes, Introducing Do-Re-Mi Series, Solfege, Tonic Sol-fah

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