WANTED: Music Fun Need a little musical outlet but don’t have access to instruments? Mess around with music or get serious about your rhythm! Check out Chrome Music Lab’s fun site for kids or kids at heart. This open source resource offers you the ability to play with music in a fun and colorful way. With arpeggios, rhythms, a song maker, melody maker, chords, piano rolls, Kadinsky and more you’ll…
Have you run out of Writing Ideas? Do you need to practice ahead of your latest haiku, epic, short story, novel or anthology? Get those creative writing juices flowing! Educators, parents, and creative writers of any age or experience level can benefit from a story-prompt generator. We learned about an award-winning site called The Story Starter that has over 350 billion prompts, so it will be impossible to run out…
Mindful Poetry and Music Mindful Poetry and Music, brought to you by the folks at The Well, is one free resource that can help you and your family focus on that which enlightens, engages and relaxes you. This is a place to “notice what we smell, hear, taste and feel.” Check out this valuable resource and dig around their comprehensive website for programs. Need more resources? Check out Coloring Pages…
Read with Music, Sound Effects, and Character Voices Given that schools have closed, or the school year has been abbreviated for a majority of American students, many publishers have relaxed their rules about recording and broadcasting the stories that they own. To that end, there’s an app called Novel Effect that can help educators and parents to make these stories both interactive and fun. (Although it’s better for the developing…
