Seeing his interest, one of the practitioners finds a larger woodblock. On the carpet one child is concentrating on playing two-tone woodblocks with the beaters and listening very carefully to the different sounds they produce. In another part of the outdoor area they’ve laid out a blanket and on it placed some wooden instruments – mostly for tapping with small-handled wooden beaters. The suspended instruments seem to encourage larger body movements, swinging and jumping to play them or running back and forth to strike them on the move. The children explore different ways of playing the instruments and sound makers. In a daycare group caring for one- to two-year-olds, the staff have strung up a rope across a corner of their outdoor play space and from this line suspended a number of interesting sound-makers: plastic drinking bottles filled with fine grained materials for shaking two twists of heavy-duty sleigh bells and two sets of thick bamboo chimes. Susan Young continues her exploration of early years music with a look at the value of instruments and other sound-makers…
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