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Click on any of the links in any box to explore activities, websites, resources, and more! 

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Click on any of the links in any box to explore activities, websites, resources, and more! 

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My FAVORITE! So many fun activities to check out. I recommend "Kandinsky" activity :) You can learn about different ways to create music and the science behind it.

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Music is for everyone. Play with simple experiments that let anyone, of any age, explore how music works.

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Create different grooves and beats!

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Groove Pizza is a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles, and patterns. Start working with one of the special pizza presets and add/remove toppings to adjust the groove, or click on the Shape Pizza tab and drag various shapes onto the big circle to play and explore…

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These are amazing videos (in English and Spanish) where musicians from the Oregon Symphony read stories (with special help from their instruments) Enjoy!

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Mira Cuentos en Español
Welcome to Symphony Storytime, a fun and unique video series from the Oregon Symphony, designed for pre-K through elementary aged children and their families to experience popular story books. Each episode is entertaining and educational, and includes a great children's story narrated by a master storyteller, with accompaniment by an Oregon Symphony musician or guest artist, performing the "soundtrack" inspired by each story. Kids will enjoy these 10- 15-minute episodes again and again, like any favorite story or concert, and all episodes are available to watch for free.

In each episode, kids will hear original music, especially curated by the musical guest. Featured musicians might play anything from familiar classical riffs to witty musical improvisations and funny sound effects - moving the story along at a lively pace. Each episode also includes an educational segment that features fun facts about the highlighted instrument.

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Symphony Storytime | Musical Activities for Kids from the Oregon Symphony

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Welcome to Symphony Storytime, a fun and unique video series from the Oregon Symphony designed for kids in the pre-kindergarten to elementary school age range to experience popular story books. Each episode is entertaining AND educational, and includes a great children's story narrated by a master storyteller, with accompaniment by an Oregon Symphony musician performing the book's "soundtrack."

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A simple, online vibrant digital xylophone which actually sounds like a real xylophone.

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Inside the Orchestra has fun games for creative expression, musical concepts, and more!

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Inside the Orchestra has fun games for creative expression, musical concepts, and more!

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Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access

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Explore instruments from around the world!

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Explore instruments from around the world!

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Click any instrument to hear what it sounds like!

Click any instrument to hear what it sounds like!

Explore the wide array of sounds with our interactive list of musical instruments! Games online are rarely ever this educational and fun. From the xylophone to the alphorn, click each image to not only see but hear this musical instruments list A-Z (or should we say A-X?). Before kids decide which one they want to play when they grow up, they can listen to the variety of stringed, brass, percussion, and wind instruments here first. While sorting the name list of musical instruments in alphabetical order, we've also included which of them are aerophones (wind and brass), membranophones (percussion), chordophones (stringed), and electrophones (synthetic) as well as the general note range (which clef they're played in).

In addition, we included which musical instruments for kids are usually in an orchestra. Only a small fraction of classic instruments are typically included. Everything from piccolos to flutes to cellos to violas to trumpets to timpani feature as the normal components of an orchestra, but that is certainly not representative of all of the beautiful sounds human beings have managed to make with hundreds-of-years-old musical instruments. The list of musical instruments in a Chinese orchestra might include a yangquin, huqin, dizi, or bianzhong, for instance. There's a huge variety, and this interactive instruments-of-the-orchestra list can help illustrate that.

Of course, this shows only a small fraction of the options out there for kids' musical instruments. You can make music with anything, even a can, stick, fence, or rock. It's important that adults reinforce using music as play, letting kids flex their creative muscles to create sounds, as there are many mental and physical benefits to making music. Instruments list many nations of origin, too, so children can learn about other cultures by exploring the music of Irish, Spanish, African, and other under-represented cultures in the typical cannon of American swing music.

Use our interactive, musical list of instruments to find some cool sounds, but know that there are far more out there than just our list of 100 instruments. Try some of the other music games for kids and check out interactive sites for education on music theory. Games like turning this page into a guess-the-instrument-sound game can really hone the musical ear, and some musical instrument games for preschoolers can really help them get ahead. For older students, elementary music games online will allow them to decide on which instruments they'll want to learn, without being coerced into a traditional role.

Click around, explore, and have fun with our musical instruments game and music theory interactive!

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The Wide World of Music: A Guide to 100 Musical Instruments and Swing Sets

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Click any instrument to hear what it sounds like! Click any instrument to hear what it sounds like! Explore the wide array of sounds with our interactive list of musical instruments! Games online are rarely ever this educational and fun.

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This website has some fun composition, rhythm, and instrument games! 

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This website has some fun composition, rhythm, and instrument games! 

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Games and More

Music not only has the power to stimulate the mind, enrich the heart and soothe the soul; it can help children to think more creatively, develop craftsmanship and discipline and learn the value of excellence.

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Games and MoreMusic not only has the power to stimulate the mind, enrich the heart and soothe the soul; it can help children to think more creatively, develop craftsmanship and [...]

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Learn more about each instrument of the orchestra!

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Learn more about each instrument of the orchestra!

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Oregon Symphony Instrument Families: Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion

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When we talk about musical instruments, we often talk about them as being part of a family. That's because, just like in human families, the instruments in a particular family are related to each other. They are often made of the same types of materials, usually look similar to one another, and produce sound in comparable ways.

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Incredibox allows you to play with loops and beats to create your own music 

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Incredibox allows you to play with loops and beats to create your own music 

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A fun, interactive music experience
Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers.Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

Where making music is child's play!

Part game, part tool, Incredibox is above all an audio and visual experience that has quickly become a hit with people of all ages. More than 80 million players worldwide have already enjoyed it. The right mix of music, graphics, animation and interactivity makes Incredibox ideal for everyone. And because it makes learning fun and entertaining, Incredibox is now being used by schools all over the world.

Create a mix

Drag and drop icons onto the avatars to make them sing and start to compose your own music. Find the right sound combos to unlock animated choruses that will enhance your tune.

Share it

Once your composition sounds great, just save it and you will get a link to your mix. You can easily share it with anybody so they can listen and even vote for it.

Be a legend

If you share your mix a lot and get enough votes from other users, you may go down in Incredibox history by joining the Top 50 chart. Ready to show your stuff?

Ready to lay down
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Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers. Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

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As you build a city, it creates music! This one has a bit of a learning curve so play around with it a bit before you give up!