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There's music in the air when you host a Music Maker Party - and you don't even have to carry a tune! Provide the young musicians with musical opportunities and watch the party turn up the volume!

INVITATIONS
COSTUMES
DECORATIONS
GAMES
ACTIVITIES
FOOD
DRUM CAKE
FAVORS
VARIATIONS
HELPFUL HINTS

INVITATIONS up

Set your invitation to music. Use a portable cassette player to record a tune from your own one-kid band. Sing the party details as lyrics, and mail cassettes in padded envelopes.
Write party details on sheet music and mail to guests.
If you have a friend who likes to sing, hire him or her to deliver "Singing Invitations" right to your guests' doorsteps!

COSTUMES up

Have the kids come dressed as musical instruments (tell them to use their imaginations).
Ask the kids to come dressed as favorite musicians - grunge singers, lounge lizards, pop stars, or conductors!

DECORATIONS up

Cut out music notes from black construction paper and hang them from the ceiling or tape them to the walls.
Use musical instruments as table centerpieces, and use sheet music as place mats.
Play a variety of music in the background when you're not performing your own musical entertainment.

GAMES up

Play Musical Chairs in a whole new way! Set up chairs in a circle, enough for all but one of the guests. Give each child a kazoo or inexpensive toy horn. Begin the game by playing the kazoo as all the guests walk around the chairs. Stop playing whenever you want. When the playing stops, all players must scramble for a chair. The player who does not find a seat gets to play the kazoo for the others. Continue until only one player remains.
Play Instrument Identification. Have musicians play their instruments one at a time for your cassette recorder, or tape-record a variety of instruments from your own music collection. Pause between tunes, and let the kids try to guess what instrument was played.
Play the Instrument Identification game using the music from Peter and the Wolf.

ACTIVITIES up

Make your own instruments. Get a book from the library on making simple musical instruments for kids. Make an oatmeal drum, a pie-pan tambourine, an elastic bracelet with bells sewn on, two-pot-lid cymbals, sandpaper wood blocks, toilet-paper kazoos, rice-and-bottle maracas, and so on. When the instruments are finished, line the kids up for a concert, or march them around the block for a musical parade. Be sure to videotape the concert for playback later.
Put on fingerplays set to music when you finish making your instruments. Have the kids decorate their fingertips with felt-tip pens to make small people or animal. Then tell the kids to make their "puppets" dance to the music.

FOOD up

Serve food that makes noise! To create a musical meal, try crunchy celery and carrot sticks, cheese and cracker sandwiches, apple-walnut fruit salad, sodas or milk shakes with straws, and lots of popcorn. Then take turns "playing" the food to make a meal band!

DRUM CAKE up

Bake two round cakes; cool.
Frost one layer with chocolate frosting, place another layer on top, and cover with chocolate frosting.
Decorate the sides with tube frosting, making crisscross designs to look tike the sides of the drum.
Top the drum cake with small kazoos, harmonicas, or lots of silver bells.

FAVORS up

Let the kids take home the musical instruments they make.
Give the kids songbooks or fingerplay books so they can learn new tunes at home.
Hand out inexpensive harmonicas, kazoos, noisemakers, whistles, or other music-makers.
Buy small music-box inserts at a fabric or hobby store and drop them into the kids' pockets. Then press their pockets and listen to the surprise music!

VARIATIONS up

Take the kids to a concert Try rock, country, or even classical music that appeals to kids, and let them enjoy the world of music.
Have a guitar player come to the party to teach the kids how to play a few chords.

HELPFUL HINTS up

If you have valuable musical instruments at the party, be sure to teach the kids how to handle and respect them, or keep the instruments off limits to avoid damage.
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