- audio player
- brightly-colored paints
- long sheets of paper
- markers
- paintbrushes
- recordings of slow-paced classical music or a lullaby and marching or other lively music
- artist
- fast
- loud
- marching
- music
- paint
- slow
- soft
MA Standards:
Literature: RL.PK.MA.8.a Respond with movement or clapping to a regular beat in poetry or song.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 3 Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Musical Murals
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Have children work in small groups. Play loud, lively marching music and encourage children to paint to the music. Then play soft, slow classical music (or a lullaby) and have children adjust their pace as they paint. Display the paintings with the names of the artists. Invite viewers to guess which paintings were made while listening to fast music and which paintings were made while listening to slow music. Ask, Which piece of music had soft sounds? Which piece of music had loud sounds? Display the mural and invite family members to come to a viewing.