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Save those little containers that valentine treats and crafts come in! Empty chocolate boxes, plastic jars, heart-shaped bowls, and small containers make excellent sensory and art supplies. And when used with drumsticks and filled with loose parts, they can also be Valentine’s Day musical instruments.
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Valentine’s Day Loose Parts To Collect
Here’s a supply of loose parts that early learners could choose from for music-making:
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- mini rubber balls
- coins
- erasers
- heart necklaces
- heart-shaped cookie cutters
- red heart gems
- pompoms
- buttons
- X and O game pieces
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This compartment tray holds the above items and the ones below:
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- pony beads
- red and white round gems
- large red beads
- striped straws
- wooden hearts
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Making Valentine’s Day Musical Instruments
Collect Valentine’s Day-themed containers and set them out on a table with a tray of loose parts. Encourage little learners to fill containers with one kind of loose part and add lids. Have them use the filled containers as shakers.
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A heart-shaped bowl and small tin make excellent drums. Just add drumsticks!
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When covered with a lid and tipped from side to side, this pony bead-filled tin becomes an ocean drum.
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Why not go big? This large chocolate box heart works wonderfully as an ocean drum too. A few beaded necklaces add the sound.
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Your early learners will love making sounds and tapping beats with these recycled containers. To extend the investigative play, add the containers to a large tub filled with rice. Invite your little learners to add rice to them to create more Valentine’s Day musical instruments.
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Related: Rubber Band Paint Box Musical Instrument
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© Annette Kaminsky February 14, 2021
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