![]() ![]() Kids are so creative and they have so many good ideas and it's really refreshing for them to see adults have that creative energy also. Creativity can be mirrored in many ways, especially with kids. I encourage you to bring out these props and see what kind of creative ideas kids bring to you. If you want to shake things up a little bit with kids, especially when working one-on-one with them, bring a tea set to music time, put your pinkies up, put on a silly & fancy hat and have a tea party as part of your music time that day. Kids can make you some food and you can enjoy it and be silly with it. ![]() It immediately shows them that you are creative, that you like silly ideas and that you will run with their ideas. There is something about pretend food that is really, really funny, fun and very engaging for kids. she’s the creator of our course “ Out of the Music Box”!) If you want a creative intervention idea using Jenga, I would recommend you download the free “ Musical Jenga” session plan on Creative Therapy Umbrella’s website by Kate Shannon, LPC, MT-BC (P.S. Taking spinners as an example, maybe you have a little spinner that it's associated with a color, then maybe you have an instrument or a song assigned to that same color that was picked by the spinner that the child chose. There are just such cool props that come with a lot of board games that many of us already have. You can also use them for very, very silly things to get kids to laugh, like dancing stuffed animals, stuffed animals that play instruments, stuffed animals that hide under things, stuffed animals that get into trouble (fun, right?!).ĭice are really fun. This way, I gave children their space by not talking to them directly if they weren't ready for that. I would often just talk to their stuffed animals instead of talking to the child if they were feeling shy while they saw that I was a safe person. When I worked in the hospital, I would ask kids if I could meet their stuffed animals. You can use stuffed animals as a way to communicate with kids in a really safe way. It's basically a giant blue, see-through scarf that everybody tells me it's far superior than a parachute because you can see through it and it's less stimulating. You can do all kinds of things with scarves:Ī lot of my Music For Kiddos Community members really swear by this giant blue scarf that West Music sells. Specifically when using the song “ Peekaboo” (which I share the lyrics with you at the bottom of this page ), scarves provide a level of safety and comfort for most kids to be able to put something on their head and “hide” with it when they can also see through it. What I like about scarves is that they're see-through. My favorite streamers are from Bear Paw Creek, which is a website that specializes in creative movement props for music therapists and music educators. I love scarves & streamers! I especially like that you can throw them in the washing machine on delicate, air-dry them and they're just like as good as new. You can close the lid on it and use it as a giant shaker with all these other shakers inside of it. You can draw silly teeth or goggly eyes on the flip so that the container can actually “chomp up” or “eat” the eggs. You can use it as a bowl for stirring (like pretending to making a soup!). You can take things out of it, or dump everything all at once (it can be really silly & fun □) ![]() In example, when an egg shaker drops into the big bucket, it makes this really satisfying sound that kids can anticipate and can be encouraging for kids to actually clean up and put things away. You can put things in it and use it with musical cues. ![]() The reason this is an incredible tool when you're working with kids is because there are many ways you can use them: Yes, a container! Especially in one-on-one music therapy, I cannot go without a really good container that can hold about 15 or 28 shakers and has a flip lid. My favorite props to use in music classes & sessions ![]()
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