This is for all those cool adults who want to encourage music education in your preschooler. At Little Rockers, we specialize in using music to help preschoolers in their development. Most of our classes are 60 minutes long and incorporate instrument play, preschool music theory, movement, games and many other fun tricks of our trade.

One of the main things we use to reinforce learning are handouts. 

And we thought– why keep them to ourselves??

We should share!! So here are some of our wonderful ideas. We hope you use them to stimulate musical learning in your little rocker!

In this blog, you’ll find ideas, handouts, crafts and printables that we use in our classes for teachers and parents to use at home and in class.

Some are for younger children- ages 2-4 and the handouts labeled for ages 4-6 years are slightly more challenging and focus on some National Standards of Music Education for Pre-K and Kindergarten.

Enjoy!

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Guitars are the heart of Little Rockers. It’s our first tool to win over the kids and influence people- lol.

We focus an entire session on the guitar and here are examples of lessons to introduce your guitar addict to some more concepts.

The first handout is simple but pure. We call it “G is for Guitar” and we hope you get a lot of use out of it.

Click the link below to open the image, then you can save it as a PDF or just print it right from your bowser. Good Luck!

Click here for printable version

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How we use our handouts

Little Rockers uses guitars in almost every class- giving children a hands on experience to musical learning. This handout is one of the first things we work on. Our printable handout allows kids to recognize the different aspects of an acoustic guitar and have a reference for later when they are home with their own guitars. Many of the kids have their own sort of guitar or stringed instrument like a ukulele and they typically play with them at home, exploring and being more outgoing with it then they might be at music class. We like to give a simple introduction to music that is age appropriate but also help the children learn through play.

Handouts and printables are a wonderful way to reinforce learning and to help those of us who might be visual learners. As far as using them in our classes, it also helps to redirect some of the energy that might be super active.

Print it out and color!

At Little Rockers, we like to compare the guitar to our body and point out the parts that are similar. Hey, we have a head and so does the guitar! And a body and a neck and a belly button!! That’s what we call the sound hole at Little Rockers!

We like to tease and say ” Does the guitar have legs?” No… “Does it have arms?” No…. “Does it have a mouth?” No…. But it does also have a bridge- which is like a bridge we drive or walk across and it also has a back which we can tap on in a musical way.

We like to take the time to explore the guitar with the kids in a fun and interactive way. Make it fun and engaging.

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More Guitar! We all know what it looks like, right? But can you locate them all with our find the guitars handout?

Identifying and recognizing are important developmental skills for kids to work on. Our find the guitars handout helps them work on this skill in a musical way which we love to incorporate in our curriculum. This is one of the many skills we work on in our Little Rockers Music classes (in person and on our app). Most of our activities in our classes are hands on, where we play instruments, sing or do imaginative play. However, within our classes we like to reinforce what we are learning with a handout, craft or other creative learning tool. We feel this is a great way to have the kids show what they learned in class, but also have something to take home to remind them of what they learned that day.

This handout shows us a variety of instruments but we are asking the children to circle (or color) the pictures of the guitars ONLY.

Variations can be made and you can have them color the guitars one color and all the other instruments another color. Or quiz them and see if they can point out the other instruments. “Where is the microphone?” or “I see a drum, can you find it?”

It’s like “I spy” but only guitars! A budding musicians dream game 🙂

Break out the crayons and get started. Just click the link below to open the image, then you can save it as a PDF or just print it right from your bowser. Good Luck!

CLICK HERE FOR PRINTABLE VERSION

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