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Game 4:
Where has the little Mouse just played?
A musical searching game in the whole room
Game Material Required
Tambourine, metallophone with mallet, 2 wooden sticks,
3 Mia Mouse tiles,
one animal tile of each animal child (squirrel, fox, bear), 3 forest houses
How to Play
Choose three corners in the room and place a forest house in each with the animal
mama face up. Get the instruments ready.
The children sit in the middle of the room and shut their eyes. The adult takes three
animal tiles, one Mia Mouse tile and any one of the instruments. He quietly walks
to the three corners and places on each forest house an animal tile face down.
However, he keeps the tile showing the instrument he is about to play and places
instead the Mia Mouse tile face down on the corresponding forest house. He plays
the instrument in the corner where he placed the Mia Mouse tile before he tiptoes
back to the children and says:
Eyes open! – Where has Mia Mouse just played?
The children then rush off and stand in the corner where they think the instrument
was played. As soon as each child is standing in a corner they turn over the animal
tile there.
Where is Mia Mouse? Who has found her?
The children who are standing in the right place are applauded. Afterwards they
collect the other animal tiles and and a new round begins.
The game ends when the third Mia Mouse tile has been found.
If only one child is playing, he can take the Mia Mouse tile.
Notes for parents:
Both game 3 and 4 are important exercises exploring what will later and in a
different way also be taught in music classes at primary school.
Locating a sound, that is detecting and determining the exact spot from
where a sound comes from or following how a sound source moves only
through listening, are important skills that play a vital role for example with
traffic. The children have to acquire this skill through training just as they have
to learn to judge speed.