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About the
Coloring and Activity Pages

These coloring and activity pages for Ethan’s Music Room were created by our Student
Design Team. The students, working off their own knowledge and research of what makes
an engaging, interactive activity for children, created dynamic and easy-to-follow instruction
sheets for parents, guardians, and educators to facilitate music-based learning through fun
activities.

Each activity page corresponds to a specific episode of Ethan’s Music Room. When completing
activities, facilitators should first watch the corresponding episodes with the child, helping to
continue the learning after the credits have rolled. By offering a linked experience, children
will be able to better understand the musical concepts Ethan explains in each episode by
experiencing them through doing.

By fostering learning through the arts, these pages are meant to help children find their
creativity and build problem-solving skills.
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Materials:
• Metal pots or pans
• Wooden spoons
• Flashlight

Directions:
1. Bang wooden spoons on pots and pans to make thunder noises.
2. Turn flashlight on and off to create lightning.

Question:
What are some other
noises that bring music
into our daily lives?
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Music is all around us. Sometimes, music can be found in our daily
lives. Ethan tells us that music can be a lion’s roar, a creak of a closet
door, or an alarm clock ringing in the morning.
Now it’s your turn to find the music!
Materials:
• A notebook
• Markers, colored pencils, or crayons
• A pen or pencil

Directions:
1. Decorate your music journal.
2. Pay attention to the sounds that you
hear throughout the day. As you hear
them, write them down in your music
journal!
3. Share all the sounds you heard that day. Which sounds reminded
you of music? Which sounds were your favorite?

Question:
Are there any sounds that you heard
that you never thought of as music
until now? What other sounds could be
music?
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Beat is an important topic in Ethan’s Music Room. It tells musicians how

long to hold a note on their instruments. A common way to practice
beats is clapping them out.
This game is a fun way to practice and create your own beats with friends!
Directions:
1. Sit in a circle.
2. Pick one person to be ‘the drummer.’
3. The drummer will clap out a beat.
4. The person next to them will have to mimic
this beat. If the next person gets it right, they
clap out a different beat. If they get it wrong,
it moves to the next person.

Question:
What did you notice when creating
beats with others? Were many of
them similar, or different?
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Largo and allegro are terms used for the tempo, or speed, of music.
Largo means slow and allegro means fast.

In Ethan’s Music Room, when the kids wanted to change the tempo
of Ethan’s song, they ran in place at the speed that they wanted the
music to go.

In this activity, largo and allegro can change the tempo of dancing!

Materials:
• Music

Directions:
1. Turn on music.
2. Spread out so everyone has space to
dance.
3. One person acts as the “conductor.”
4. When they call out allegro, everyone
should dance fast.
5. When they call out largo, everyone should
dance slowly.
6. Keep playing until the song is over.
Whoever is the last person to stop dancing
becomes the next conductor!
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This game is a fun, musical twist on the game “Red Light, Green Light.”
Instead of using the traffic light symbols, this activity
uses words musicians use to speed up or
slow down the tempo!

Directions:
1. Find an open space where there
is plenty of room to run.
2. One person will be the Conductor.
3. The Conductor stands at one end of the space,
and everyone else should line up
on the other side. They are the Orchestra.
4. The Conductor will call out “largo,”
“allegro,” or “rest.” The Orchestra follows
the directions of the Conductor.
5. The first person to reach the Conductor
is the winner, and they get to be the next
Conductor.
Largo means that everyone should walk
towards the conductor.
Allegro means they should run towards
the conductor.
A rest in music is a pause where nothing
is played. In this game, it means that the
runners stop.
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- “Scales”

In Ethan’s Music Room, Ethan explains the relation between pitch and
scales. This activity uses spoons to make an instrument and explore
the concept of pitch.

Materials:
• Multiple different sized spoons
• A ruler
• String or yarn
• Tape

Directions:
1. Tie your string or yarn around the handle of the spoons.
Use tape to hold the string in place. Leave one untied.
2. Space out the spoons on the ruler. Tie the loose ends of
the string around the ruler.
3. Hold your new instrument up in the air by the ruler, letting
the spoons hang down.
4. Use your untied spoon to
hit each hanging spoon.

Question:
Do you hear differences between big spoons
and little spoons when you hit them?
What happens when you hit two hanging
spoons at once?
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In Ethan’s Music Room, Ethan explains the relation between pitch and
scales. This activity uses jars and water to create instruments with
different pitches.
Materials:
• 4 to 6 jars
• Water
• A spoon or pencil

Directions:
1. Fill the jars up with different amounts of
water.
2. Use the spoon or pencil to softly hit the
jars.
3. How the varying amounts of water create
different pitches.

Question:
Do you hear a higher pitch if the
jar is almost full or almost empty?
What about a lower pitch?
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to Episode 7 - “Scales”

In Ethan’s Music Room, Ethan explains that pitch is what helps us tell
a high note from a low note.
This activity lets you explore how string musicians play different
pitches.

Materials:
• A plastic cup or container
• A you-sized length of string
• A popsicle stick
• Scissors

Directions:
1. Have an adult poke a hole through the bottom of
the plastic container.
2. Tie one end of your string around the middle of the
popsicle stick.
3. Flip the container upside-down.
4. Pull the untied end of the string through the inside
Question:
Can you make different
of your container. (The popsicle stick should keep
the string from going through the hole.) noises by pulling the string
5. Hold the string at the top with your fingers and tighter or letting it loose, or
gently hold the cup between your feet. by plucking the string near
6. Pull the string tight. your hand or closer to the
7. Pluck the string to play! cup? Try it!
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When musicians come together to play instruments together,

it’s called a band. There are many kinds of bands.

In this activity, with the help of a couple of friends, you can create
your own band. All you need is music!

Materials:
• Markers
• Notecards

Directions:
1. Turn on your favorite song.
2. Pick out the instruments that you hear.
Write them down on a notecard.
3. Have each person in your group pick a
notecard.
4. Have everyone describe how they will
“play” their instruments.
5. Start the song over.
6. Pretend that you are playing your
instruments.
7. Jam to the music with your air band!
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NamOrchestra Episode 9 - “Band-ing

You don’t need to have a bunch of instruments to create an

orchestra!
With these simple instrument ideas, you can have an array of
magnificent music-makers in no time!
Then, gather some friends and play music!

Materials:
• Anything that makes music
• A group of friends
• An audience (optional)

Directions:
Using all your homemade
instruments, assemble an
orchestra with some friends.

If your instruments are

portable, you can even have a
marching band!
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NamInest:rument Episode 9 - “Band-ing

Instruments come in all shapes and sizes. Each instrument has its own unique sound. For
thousands of years, humans have been creating instruments. Now it’s your turn! Invent a
new instrument of your own!

Directions:
In the space below, draw your own instrument. Be sure to add colors and decorate it!
Describe what it sounds like. Does it make high sounds, or low sounds? Is it quiet or
loud? What kind of band would your instrument be in?
Maybe your design will become a real instrument in the future!
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A melody is a set of notes that is frequently repeated in a song.

You probably know a lot of melodies. Most nursery rhymes are made
of melodies. In this activity, familiar melodies are used for a game of
musical charades.

Directions:
1. One person will hum their favorite nursery rhyme.
2. The rest of the group will try to name the song.
3. The person who guesses the correct song first gets to be the
next person to hum a melody.
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A key is a set of notes that makes up a scale. Major scales are in a key
that seems more upbeat and happy. Minor scales are in a key that
seems more sad or dark. Music can convey all types of moods and
emotions.
This activity will let the feelings you draw from a song become art!

Directions:
Turn on music and draw or paint what
the music sounds like to you.

Put it down on paper, and in no time,

you’ll have a musical masterpiece!

Questions:
What emotions does the song give you?
What does it remind you of?
How does it make you feel?
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