Tapping sticks

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AIM

Spend quality time together by making your own percussion instruments and playing music together.

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BENEFIT

Being together supports learning through relationships. Children learn best in caring environment where adults co-play with children. Sharing experiences builds social bonds and emotional regulation.

WHAT YOU NEED:
  • Thick cardboard tubing
  • Thick wooden doweling
  • Child safe crayons
  • Textas
WHAT TO DO:
  • Assist children to get a pair of tubes, or adults can cut tubes to size.
  • Children can decorate the tubing with their own drawings.
  • Perhaps before a communal snack time, or as a small group, children can be shown how to keep the beat to familiar songs or nursery rhymes.
  • Sing along and play
  • Provide music to tap along to and adults can assist children to tap to the beat.
  • Vary the tapping-fast, slow, loudly, softly
TWINKLE, TWINLE, LITTLE STAR

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

Use this part of the video as a SPARK for the activity

Fun fact

FUN FACT

Listening to and creating music using handmade instruments can help develop children’s listening and speaking skills. Tapping to familiar nursery rhymes also supports hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.