Sound Travels #2: Feelings Through Instruments

Exploring sounds

Water group agreed that music can arouse emotions and feelings within us. But could feelings be expressed through music?

Painting our tambourines

No peeking

We read the book The Maestro Plays by Bill Martin Jr. and the children were captivated by the way the Maestro plays each instrument. They tried playing some of the instruments we have at Creative Minds. They played loudly, quietly, fast, slow, long, short, and many other ways just like the maestro in the book. They took turns showing others what happy, sad, or scared might sound like. Then we played a guessing game where one child hid behind a screen and the others had to guess which instrument the child was playing and the feeling that he/she was expressing.

Guess my instrument

The children loved the sound a shaker and tambourine make. So we combined elements from both instruments and made tambourine shakers.