Paper Music Notes

What You Need:

• Colored construction paper
• Paper and pencil
• Markers or crayons
• Paste or glue
• Scissors
• Jazz tunes

What You Do:

1. After your child has had a sampling of the great jazz genre music you can let them try to distinguish which types of instruments they hear. Does she notice the swinging trumpet beats, the sliding trombones, the scatting of a clarinet?
2. Help your child write a list of the instruments associated with jazz songs. Try using the Internet if you need some help with the names of instruments.
3. After your child has a nice list of instruments, ask them to draw a picture of each, again using the Internet for any needed assistance.
4. Encourage your child to try to add in as many details as possible once they have drawn and colored the instruments.
5. Help your child cut the smaller pictures out into little squares of paper.
6. Ask your child to cut music note shapes out of black construction paper for them to glue the different instruments onto. Remind your child that they should make the head of the music notes big enough to fit the squares of paper on and cut out one note for each instrument square.
7. Once your child has cut out all of the notes, help them paste the picture of their instruments on the head of the note. After the glue has dried, assist your child in hanging up the music notes on the fridge, on the walls, or to decorate their bedroom. The next time they hear the sweet sounds of jazz, they may be able to identify the instruments they hear on their homemade music notes!

• "So What" by Miles Davis
• "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck
• "Heebie Jeebies" by Louis Armstrong
• "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
• "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald
• "Electric Bath" by Don Ellis
• "Portrait of Jazz" by Bill Evans
• "Mister Magic" by Grover Washington, Jr.