Rhythmic Building Bricks or Blocks are often used as compositional tools in elementary music classrooms. Developed by Carl Orff's fellow...

Using iconic or rhythmic notation, various voices, elemental forms, movement, non-pitched percussion, barred percussion, movement, and impro...

This is such a beautiful book by Aimee Sicuro! The slides are available (FREE!) here!

 I love card games - to use in rotations, as a sub game, as a jumping off point for composition!  This one is Go Fish - grab your copy here...

 Pass the Pumpkin is a fall favorite and I have remade the slides in google slides with some small tweaks to the visuals and the directions....

Improvisation is essentially spontaneous composition. The art and act of creating an expressive musical statement in real time adhering to s...

  Hike by Pete Oswald (of The Good Egg and The Bad Seed fame) is a beautiful (almost) wordless picture book.  Follow a Dad and son into the ...

Ramadan is a holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world. It begins at sundown April 2 and ends May 1 this year.  Through fasting, Muslim...