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Learning · The activity desk
Instrument family picture sort
Group familiar instruments by how they make sound.
Let's play →
A little plan for play
Open interactive activity →Add to play journal →What you need
Paper and a large child-appropriate crayon.
Age: 3–5 years; choose for the individual child.
Let's make it happen
- Draw two spaces on the page: one for instruments with strings and one for instruments you strike or shake.
- Draw a guitar, violin, drum, and tambourine elsewhere on the page. Talk about how each makes sound.
- Connect each picture to its family, then imagine a sound each instrument could add to a song.
Adult stays beside the child and helps with drawing and unfamiliar names.