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🎁 Music Box Makeover
The goal is to have useful, musical-sounding instruments, specific ways to use them, and have everything organized.
1
Sort Instruments Into Categories
- • Good condition, pleasant-sounding
- • Good condition, but annoying-sounding
- • Needing repair
- • Items to discard
2
Inventory Assessment
- • What instruments do you have?
- • Any single items that can't be used in a group?
- • How many children are in your group?
- • How many of each instrument do you want?
3
Create a Music Box Container
- • Purchase and decorate a large, colorful container big enough to hold all your instruments
- • Use Decocolor markers and electrical tape for decoration and labeling
- • Separate instruments into labeled inner containers
4
Organize Contents
- • Create a 3-ring binder with visuals showing how to use each instrument
- • Store frequently-used recordings (CDs) in the music box
- • Add a "Song and Story Sounds" reference notebook with magazine pictures and felt pieces
💡 Implementation Tip
Organize a craft party with 3–6 childcare providers to collectively build instruments together. See Homemade Instruments for instructions on building your own, and Story Sounds for ideas on using them.