May 11, 2021
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Kids will have fun making these super cute DIY Maracas. Not only is this a fun musical instrument craft for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders, but a fun music activity for kids too! These DIY musical instruments for kids couldn’t be easier to make and they are loads of fun to play with and make music as well. Whether you are a parent or teacher, you will love making these homamde musical instruments!

Kids will have fun making these super cute DIY Maracas. Not only is this a fun musical instrument craft for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders, but a fun music activity for kids too! These DIY musical instruments for kids couldn't be easier to make and they are loads of fun to play with and make music as well. Whether you are a parent or teacher, you will love making these homamde musical instruments!

DIY Maracas

Teaching music for kids starts with teaching kids to love and apprecaite music. One way to do that is lots of fun musical crafts for kids that allow kids to create and explore as they make sounds. Making DIY musicla instruments for kids allows you to start exploring how we can all play together and playing on the beat. Whether you use these DIY maracas to teach music or just to play as you sing your favorite song or nursery rhyme, these homemade musical instruments are sure to be extra fun for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 students.

All you need are a few simple materials to make these cute homemade maracas: plastic spoon (any color) plastic easter egg (any color) rice or beans washi tape in your favorite colors or patterns

DIY Musical Instruments for Kids

All you need are a few simple materials to make these cute homemade maracas:

  • plastic spoon (any color)
  • plastic easter egg (any color)
  • rice or beans
  • washi tape in your favorite colors or patterns

DIY Instruments for Kids

Homemade Musical Instruments

The first step is to fill your easter egg with rice or beans so it makes the fun shake noise! Fill it and shake your egg to get the right amount of filling you want to hear.

Homemade Musical Instruments

DIY Instruments for Kids

Now put the egg on a plastic spoon. Cover the egg with another spoon with the well facing the egg.

DIY Musical Instruments for Kids

Musical Instrument Crafts

Use pretty washi tape to attach the spoons to the eggs. That’s it! Super simple, yet fun and pretty maraca craft for preschoolers and kindergartners!

homemade maracas craft

Now it’s time to make some music, play along to your favorite song, or learn about music fo rkids!

Here are some of our favorite books to explore music with kids!

 

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DIY Musical Instruments for Kids
Teach young children about musical instruments with these free printable music coloring pages! This set of 43 music instrument coloring pages allows students to learn the names of various band and orchestra insruments in the brass, string, woodwind, keyboard, and percussion family. Simpy download the music coloring sheets and you are ready to go!
Musical Instruments Pictures with Names
Orchestra for Kids
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This simple DIY xylophone takes just a couple minutes to make with jars and water, but is a great sound activity! Use this water xylophone to help teach toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders about pitch with this easy sound experiment for kids. Plus this homemade xylophone is a really cool music activity for kids too!
Teach kids about hisotrical composers with these free printable composer coloring pages! Whether you use these composer coloring sheets for music appreciation, history, or just to introduce your kindergarten and elementary age students to 10 famous composers for kids - you will love this pdf download!  The music coloring pages include: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bach, George Friderick Handel, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi, and Johannes Brahms

Music Activities

Kids will be excited to learn and explore when making this ice cream volcano! This is a combination of an ice cream activity and easy volcano experiments for one EPIC, memorable summer activity for kids! Try this summer experiment as part of your ice cream theme with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders. This project causes a super cool, baking soda and vinegar reaction that will create a fun WOW moment for kids!
SUPER soft apple playdough recipe is no cook and takes just 2 minutes to make! This autumn playdough is perfect for apple activities in September.
Celebrate fall with this pumpkin slime recipe perfect for October. All you need are a few simple supplies and I will show you how to make pumpkin slime! This halloween slime makes EPIC fun and halloween activities for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too!
This simple DIY xylophone takes just a couple minutes to make with jars and water, but is a great sound activity! Use this water xylophone to help teach toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders about pitch with this easy sound experiment for kids. Plus this homemade xylophone is a really cool music activity for kids too!
Kids are always impressed when you can use common household produce to produce electricity. This spin on the classic potato clock or lemon battery uses a juicy, red TOMATO!  In this amazing tomato battery your children will use a couple simple materials to make a tomato powered light. This tomato battery experiment is for all ages from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and lementary age students in first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade tooas they explore creating a circuit. This electricity experiment for kids is sure to WOW and get kids excited about kindergarten science.
Kids will have fun making these super cute DIY Maracas. Not only is this a fun musical instrument craft for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders, but a fun music activity for kids too! These DIY musical instruments for kids couldn't be easier to make and they are loads of fun to play with and make music as well. Whether you are a parent or teacher, you will love making these homamde musical instruments!
Ready for an outrageously FUN balloon activity for kids? Play, paint, and make a fun summer craft all at the same time with balloon painting ART!
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Did you know you can regrow celery? Unlike most vegetables that need a seed to grow, you can work on growing celery in water from what is leftover from the celery stalk. If you are exploring plants in your kindergarten science you will love this simple, but fascinating celery experiment. Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students can easily learn how to grow celery in water. 
Are your children learning about wild animals for kids? Add these super cute, free Wild Animals Finger Puppets to your animals theme or day to play and learn! These Animal Printables are a fun animal activities for kids to add to your lesson plan to provide a creative opportunity for their learning! Simply download pdf file with finger puppet template printable and you are ready to play!
Understanding Density for Kids doesn't have to be hard when you use a fun, hands-on liquid density experiment to demonstarate! Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, we decided to make our kindergarten science experiment a fun Valentines Day Science project. This valentine science experiments will amaze toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade and 2nd grade students. So when you are looking for your next valentines day activity, try an idea that is both fun and educational!
amazing dying flowers science experiment for kindergartners
This stunningly beautiful delphinium craft is super pretty and such an easy flower craft for kids of all ages! This summer craft for kids helps kids recreate the tall, magestic, and pretty egg carton flowers in such a stunning, but simple flower craft for kids. Use this flowre art for kids with toddler preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.
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Are you looking for a quick, easy, and FUN 4th of July Craft to celebrate this Independence Day? You are going to love this shaving cream art project! Make a super cool firework craft using shaving cream and food coloring. This shaving cream craft is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. With the simple technique, you will not believe what beutiful craft for Fourth of July you can make!
Make prehistoric dinosaurs come alive with this dinosaur fossils for kids activity! Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade and 2nd graders will have fun making fossils out of pasta using these free dinosaur fossil printables. Simply download pdf file with dinosaur printables and you are ready to play and learn about dinosaurs with this fossils for kids project.
Looking for a clever, unique animal craft for kids? These animal crafts are made with dyed pasta and our free animal printables for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders to work on fine motor skills while having fun. Children will enjoy creating these zoo animal crafts featuring a lion, hedgehog, snake, fish, and more! Simply download pdf file with template and get making some amazing pasta crafts!
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Turkey Science
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One of my kids favorite ways to learn a new concept is with food! So when we were learning about the types of rocks for kids, I knew they would get more excited and remember it better if we did an edible rocks project! I came up with this starburst candy project to teach children about the 3 types of rocks! Use this rock activity to learn about the rock cycle for kids from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!

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