Music Works for All Young Children
Music is a universal and natural language for children of all ages and all abilities. It provides a wonderful way for families and caregivers to interact, communicate and connect with children right from birth.
Sesame Street Music Works is a public service initiative that encourages children to explore, create and grow with music. This multi-media initiative has been developed by Sesame Workshop, the creators of Sesame Street, with generous support from:
Sesame Street Music Works is designed to provide parents, early childhood professionals, music educators, and music therapists with tools and activities to bring music to life for young children, as they discover new ways to make, learn from, and appreciate music.
Tips for Music Making with Young Children
Creating Simple Instruments
Making and using instruments of all kinds helps young children to experience themselves as musicians!
Percussion
Children can make simple drums by decorating empty coffee cans, oatmeal cartons, or other large cylinders. Empty plastic bottles or film canisters with a bit of rice, dried beans, or popcorn kernels inside can create a variety of rattles.
String
A few rubber bands stretched over an empty shoebox with a large hole cut in the lid makes for a great homemade guitar. Or use a stiff paper plate and let children strum on rubber bands stretched around the middle.
Wind
An empty toilet paper tube with wax paper secured over one end with a rubber band makes a great kazoo. Placing the open end of the tube over their mouth children can sing out all kinds of sounds into their kazoo to make it vibrate. Or tape together a series of straws cut to different lengths and aligned in order from small to large. Children can blow across the even ends like a pipe flute.
Learn more about how to introduce the benefits of music to your children
Click here to go to the web site of The American Music Conference, one of Sesame Street's educational partners, to learn more about the role music plays in the development of our children's hearts, minds and bodies. The American Music Conference is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of music, music making and music education to the general public. AMC's goal is to build credibility for music and music education, especially at an early age, and to encourage the support, continuation and improvement of music education standards.
Music Works - The Event
To celebrate the launch of Music Works, America Online and the Sesame Street Muppets teamed up to provide AOL users with an exclusive webcast of live Muppet musical performances! Watch the performance, introduced by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, featuring Elmo, Big Bird, Rosita, Telly, and Bob.
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