Elementary School Art Contest!
Timothy Boss, 3rd grade, is winner of the 2010 Art Contest!
Timmy’s artwork will be featured in Salem Chamber Orchestra’s 2010 “Gift of Music” Family Concert publicity! Click here to see his drawing and the Honorable Mentions!
What are all those instruments on stage?
Visit San Francisco Symphony’s kids page to learn all about the different families of instruments! On their website, you can learn more about each family: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. This chart, one of the many cool things on their website, shows where the instruments usually go on stage:
Want to teach your kids more about classical music in a fun and interactive way?
Visit Classics for Kids with your children to find kid-friendly games, music dictionaries and composer biographies, as well as creative music resources for you and your kids’ teachers. Enjoy!
Make musical instruments with your kids!
- A guitar made out of a shoebox, rubber bands and paper towel rolls! (courtesy of the PBS show Zoom)
- Handbells out of paper towel tubes!
- Finger cymbals out of jar lids!
- and even more! See instructions of how to make all kinds of instruments out of household items at About.com!