Guitar Handout

Objective: Encourages Language, Motor Skills and Musical Expression Materials: sturdy paper/plastic plate rubber bands wood painter’s stick stickers/paints/colored pencils glue stick/tape Banjo by EasyPreschoolCraft, via Pinterest Instructions: (and there is also a video) Step 1: Using a glue stick or tape, tape together the paper/plastic plate and the wood’s painter …

Undine Smith Moore: The Dean of Black Woman Composers

Undine Smith Moore. Picture: MusicByBlackComposers.org Undine Smith Moore was known as the “Dean of Black Woman Composers,” and she was a talented composer and music educator.  Undine was born in 1904 in Jarratt, Virginia to James William Smith and Hardie Turnbull Smith. Undine grew up in a musical household. She started learning …

William Grant Still: The Dean of African-American Classical Composers

William Grant Still by: Carl Van Vechten | Public Domain   William Grant Still was known as the “Dean of African-American Classical Composers.” He had a renowned career as a composer who broke many racial barriers in classical music.  Still was born on May 11, 1895, in Woodville, Mississippi. He was raised in Little …

Jell-O Creatures

** This Project Requires Parental Supervision** There is an instructional video at the bottom of the page. Objective: Encourage cooking and baking while also playing  Materials:   Pre-made Jell-O or Jell-O packets  Cookie Cutters or the Jell-O Monsters Handout Cookie Cutter Directions Step 1: Using either pre-made Jell-O or if using Jell-O packets follow the directions …

William Dawson: Choral Composer

William L. Dawson. Picture: Tuskegee University William Levi Dawson was born on September 26, 1899, in Anniston, Alabama. At age 13, he ran away from home and studied music at the historically Black school, the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington. He was part of the school’s band and orchestra, and he composed music …