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Get This Jingle Bell Craft Book – Free!

When the winter holidays roll around, who doesn’t love the sound of jingle bells? And those great little jingling bells can be used to make a multitude of creative sensory crafts for kids. Because they are such a great winter activity, we’ve assembled our top 4 jingle bells crafts into a handy E-Book perfect for this time of year.

Here’s What’s In The E-Book

So what were our top 4 crafts?

Number one was our easy jingle bracelets or anklets using yarn or pipe cleaners and beautiful bells. (I’ve heard back from parents who’ve enclosed these with their holiday cards!). Number two was “jingle pencils”, super easy to make with on-hand materials and perfect for large groups – then using for a holiday sing or caroling fun!

Number 3 was a jingle tube craft using any round container like a coffee can or an oatmeal package. These are sturdy and beautiful and you’ll want to use them as part of your home music basket or music therapy lessons for months to come. Lastly, our favorite totally green holiday craft reuses both the cardboard tubes for wrapping paper and left-over wrapping materials to make your own jingle marching sticks.

Sound like fun?

Here’s How To Get It

To get this E-book, just send me an e-mail at daria music at yahoo dot com. Make the subject “Free Jingle Bell Book”. I’ll send a return e-mail with the E-book and ask you if you would share the link for my TPT store (which is filled with freebies) or share on social media or maybe even do a review on your blog! No worries here, do as much or as little as you like!

Will I check up on this? No. I meet the nicest folks through my blog and my music materials. They are parents, teachers, homeschoolers, music therapists and they love making music a part of their children and family’s day. If you enjoy what I create, I’d appreciate any sort of shout out because that’s precisely how I find the most awesome new friends and fans!

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Jingle Tubes For The Holidays or Any Day!

These are so much fun, why wait for the holidays to make some?
To make jingle tubes, start with these “found around the house” supplies. You’ll need either the inner cardboard roll from paper towels or a round container, such as an oatmeal, cornmeal container or a coffee can. You’ll also need a piece of felt large enough to fit around your tube. Plus, look for a bit of glue, a marker, safety pins and jingles and some colorful tape, if desired.

Step 1 – Measure and cut a piece of colorful felt that will cover the cardboard paper towel roll or round container and leave a slight area for overlap.
Step 2 – Determine where you want the jingles on the finished stick and use your marker to make small indications showing you where jingles will be pinned in place.
Step 3 – Pin each jingle with a safety pin on the inside part of the felt. Hold it up to the cardboard tube or container to check your work.
Step 4 – If using a cardboard tube, glue the edges where the felt overlaps and staple the ends in place.
Step 5 – If using an “oatmeal style” container, check the position of the jingles then glue the entire felt piece into play and allow the jingle tube to dry before using.
Step 6 - For both projects, you might also wish to secure the felt in place with an additional piece of electrical tape.
Some Fun Ways To Play
Shake jingle tube back and forth or up and down.

Sing any of your favorite holiday songs along to a beat created by your jingle tube.

Try one of your favorite songs slowly. Try it quickly, keeping the beat with the jingle tube.

Play jingle tubes along with recorded music.

Make jingle tubes or color coordinated jingle tubes as part of any holiday music presentation.
Resources
Four Jingle Bell Crafts E-book from TeachersPayTeachers http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4-JINGLE-BELLS-CRAFT-ACTIVITIES-940926

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Jingle Marching Sticks

One of the most wonderful things about making music with young children is that it easily becomes part of an active day. Who can resist making a parade or dancing around the house or the classroom when they are carrying a marching jingle stick? Best of all, the materials needed for this craft are often trashed (extra ribbon, tape, cardboard wrapping tubes, stray jingle bells) so this craft encourages you to upcycle, exercise and make music all at the same time. What a great way to begin the holiday fun!

Make Your Own Jingle Stick

Here are the supplies to assemble:

A jingle stick – look for a cardboard tube from wrapping paper, 3 foot ruler or large stick

1 (or more) pipecleaners

6 – 10 jingles per pipecleaner

Colorful electrical tape or duct tape

Optional: Paint, stickers, yarn or duct tape, for decoration.

Begin by stringing any number of jingles onto a pipecleaner. Use electrical tape to fasten the pipecleaner into place on the stick. It helps to fasten the pipecleaners to the stick between the jingles as well. If you like, make several pipecleaners strung with bells to add to different parts of your stick.

Once the jingles are in place, decorate the rest of the marching stick. Use paint, more tape, colorful ribbon, yarn or stickers to make it unique and wonderful.

Time To Play!

Other then using the jingle stick to lead a parade, there are lots of ways to get creative with your new instrument.

Sing any of your favorite holiday songs along to a beat created by your marching jingle stick.

Try tapping the stick on the floor while marching and use that sound as part of the rhythm being created.

Use marching jingle sticks as part of a holiday music presentation.

Try playing the jingle stick at a particular part of the song (like the chorus) or when you hear a particular word in a holiday song. For instance, a class can jingle the bells only when you hear the word “jingle” in the song “jingle bells”.

If you like, try it along to this version of Jingle Bells which shares lots of different ways to say “Happy Holidays” in different countries around the globe.