Our Little Musician program teaches colour-coded notes, so I decided to make him some colour-coded notes and a staff to put them on!
I bought some mounting boards (I wanted something sturdy and cheap for the staff) and wooden disks for the notes. I was intending to string several boards together to make a super-long staff, but unfortunately, I was picturing the disks in inches and not centimetres so they are a lot smaller than I intended and will soon be replaced by nice big ones!
For the smaller notes, I used just the one board to make a mini-staff. I simply drew on lines around an inch apart (the width of my ruler). The space between the upper and lower staff has a faint smudge where I turned the ruler over to double the gap, but this works as a nice subtle reminder of where to put middle C.
The notes are simply painted wooden disks.
do = red re=orange mi=yellow fa=green so=blue la=purple ti=pink
I also made some chord cubes. These can either be placed on the staff or stacked to make the chords we are learning (in the picture there is do-mi-so, fa-la-do and so-ti-re). I had ten blocks, so seven are one colour and the rest have a different colour on each face.
Linking to Montessori Mondays
I bought some mounting boards (I wanted something sturdy and cheap for the staff) and wooden disks for the notes. I was intending to string several boards together to make a super-long staff, but unfortunately, I was picturing the disks in inches and not centimetres so they are a lot smaller than I intended and will soon be replaced by nice big ones!
For the smaller notes, I used just the one board to make a mini-staff. I simply drew on lines around an inch apart (the width of my ruler). The space between the upper and lower staff has a faint smudge where I turned the ruler over to double the gap, but this works as a nice subtle reminder of where to put middle C.
The notes are simply painted wooden disks.
do = red re=orange mi=yellow fa=green so=blue la=purple ti=pink
I also made some chord cubes. These can either be placed on the staff or stacked to make the chords we are learning (in the picture there is do-mi-so, fa-la-do and so-ti-re). I had ten blocks, so seven are one colour and the rest have a different colour on each face.
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| Staff with moveable notes and chord cubes |
Linking to Montessori Mondays
this is really cool! thanks for sharing!
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