Echoes & Footprints’ Grow Your Own Music program is a perfect ways to engage kids of all ages at Boys & Girls Clubs.
Grow Your Own Music
Complete this form and Echoes & Footprints will send you the lesson plans and materials list to you so that you can ‘Grow Your Own Music.’
Echoes & Footprints’ Grow Your Own Music teaches kids about the history polyrhythms, where polyrhythms come from (Africa), how they fit with harmony (from Europe), and what ancient instruments they used (from our collection of instruments from across the Americas).
Show these instruments to the kids.
Then, help them make the same instruments with things that are all around them.
Make Maracas
Make Shakers
Make Drums
Make Castanets
Make a Cajita