Sing & Play: How to Use Instruments with Your Children's Choir
Do you use instruments with your children's choir?
Playing an instrument - even if it's just a few jingle bells on a pipe cleaner - is a great way to foster musical development in your young singers.
Here are a few of the primary benefits:
1. It helps children be actively involved in the music-making process.
Children learn by doing, by moving, by experimenting. Music is a form of play, for young children, especially, and interacting with it through playing instruments and singing only deepens their experience.
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