A new music teacher proudly proudly proclaimed "My school gave me $2500 so I bought a Bass Xylophone!" After asking a few questions, it became clear that this was the only instrument the teacher had for the preschool and kindergarten students! Oh dear, I wish I could have spoken to this teacher first. Music from an Orff approach means all the children are active in the music making. We want all the children playing instruments, not just one or two at a time! Here is a Preschool INSTRUMENT WISH LIST (in order of priority).
The Lynn Kleiner line of instruments are from Remo and have been safety tested for this age group.
Hand drum with Mallet*
Tone Block with Mallet*
Maracas (straight handled)*
Scarf Set (our set has 2 of each color, 11 colors)
Finger Cymbals*
Jingle Bells*
Felt Board/Felt Sets
Puppets (Cocoa the Horse), Pop up Clown, Farm Animals, etc.
Rhythm Sticks*
Triangles*
Shaker Eggs*
Large Lynn Kleiner Gathering Drum (if classes are no more than 10 or 11 students.)
LK Glockenspiels (6-8 )
Lynns one octave xylophones and larger hand crafted xylophones
Sonor 2 octave Alto/Tenor Xylophone (special order through Lynn), with 2 pairs of mallets
Sonor 2 Octave Alto/Tenor Metallophone (special order through Lynn), with 2 pairs of mallets
Sonor Soprano Xylophone (or)
Soprano Metallophone
Tambourines*
Parachute
1 Bass Xylophone
1 Bass Metallophone
*Enough for all children and adults to have one
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