Educational music games for children

Musical lessons are not only singing and learning to play instruments, but also a great opportunity to bring variety to almost all classes. You can start to engage in any age, developing musical games for children will benefit both for mental and physical formation.

Moving music games

Kids love to listen to music, and children begin to dance, almost before they walk. The basis of dance and rhythm classes for kids are adapted songs that encourage the child to perform certain actions, for example:

There are a lot of similar songs. Children are especially fond of songs in which you want to portray a bear, hare, chanterelle, bird and other animals. As they get older, the tasks become more complicated: make lanterns with handles, whirl and the like. Carrying out gymnastics, charging to music is much more fun than to strict account: Raz! Two! Time! Two! So, under a fun song and with the use of simple equipment you can walk, run, crawl, jump, reach for the sun, squat and much more.

Finger games

Only dancing educational music games for children are not limited. Practicing finger games with music is very useful for lifting the tone, as a soft massage, for developing speech and as a way to relax your hands while learning to write. Probably everyone knows:

You can find plenty of suitable music, a lot of song lyrics are written specifically for holding finger games. For kids about a year fit: "Ladushki" and "Magpie". The older the child, the more difficult the task, for example, for one and a half to two years will do:

Fairy tales - noisemakers

Another type of music games are the so-called fairy tales - noisemakers. The basis can be any musical tale or audiobook. And then “revive” it with improvised means: when a bear goes, the children hit the drum, the hedgehog rustles - go to the cellophane package, the horse jumps - the bells ring. Such games will involve the child in the creative process, help develop attention, imaginative thinking and auditory perception.

Children's orchestra

Playing an orchestra is an interesting and useful occupation for developing a musical ear. Kids are fully able to master such musical instruments as: triangle, drum, tambourine, maracas. Before losing the composition, children are given instruments, and a place in it is allocated where the child must “play”. The main thing is that the music is matched by age, and the child can clearly understand where his instrument should play. After a little time, the kids will perfectly perform similar tasks.

So, our conversation about developing musical games for children is coming to an end, let's make some generalizations. The games, especially the collective ones, the children really like, the task of the adults is to invent them or pick them up.

In addition to the games that have been described in this article, parents are encouraged to play with the kids as much as possible rhymes and songs. In such activities, toys can play an important role, which, on the one hand, involve the child in the process, and on the other hand, serve as a “theater props”.

And here are some video examples of some finger games. Be sure to take a look!