Music education enhances creativity, discipline, and appreciation for the arts. Whether you’re teaching music theory, instrument skills, dance, or music history, we’ve gathered free lesson plans, sheet music, and activities to help you bring the joy of music into your homeschool!
Full Curriculum
Hoffmany Academy – over 400+ piano lessons
Solfa Sofa – singing lessons for children
Easy Peasy – Christian based, 4 music courses to choose from (see sidebar) – Ancient, Early American, Geography and Cultures and Modern
Georgia Virtual Learning – Under Highschool Electives Fine Arts you’ll find AP Music Theory and Music Appreciation
Music Theory.net – Free Music Theory Curriculum
Justin Guitar – free guitar lessons
Free Online Clarinet – free lessons
Classroom Recorder Course – downloadable PDF, just need your own recorder
Music Resources
World Music Archive – from the page “Explore more than a decade of Radio 3 on-location recordings from 2000 to the present in our World Music archive, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan.“
Early Childhood Music – a resource for Birth to age 6, they have other ages but only this one is free
Music Educators Toolbox – resources for K-5, browse by concept or age
Classics for Kids – worksheets and music games about the classics
Harmony Fine Arts – free art downloads for homeschool families
Elementary Music Curriculum Guide – from PEI Canada this guide is mostly about what kids should learn about music in each grade (1-6) but also includes some sample activities to do.
Homeschool Music Curriculum Guides – guides to learn along side common famous music pieces like Peter and the Wolf, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Nutcracker
Music in Our Homeschool Freebies – 15 minute music lessons, courses, holiday songs and more
Mr Henry’s Music World – teacher freebies. You have to add to cart and “buy” but it’s free. Scroll down to see what’s included
8Notes – sheet music, information on composers and instruments and more
Art Source Curriculum – teacher units for dance, music and theatre
Music Games
Isle of Tune – You build a world by placing items like houses and streets. Right click on the items to change the sound it makes. Add a car and push go to see the car move on your streets and play music as it goes.
Chrome Music Lab – SO FUN! Online games that experiment with music
Paint With Music – from Google, took a very long time to load and not sure I was doing it right. But try it.
Seeing Music – you need a microphone for this so I couldn’t see how it works
Beast Box – make music with animal sounds!
Virtual Piano – okay not a game exactly but your kid can play on a piano even if you don’t own one
Dance
Art Source Curriculum – teacher units for dance, music and theatre
National Ballet School Resource Library – must sign up but then free access to courses and teaching materials (not just ballet)
Lesson Leap – dance resources for 24months – 11 years
CODE (dance and drama) – lesson plans for dance and drama
One Dance UK – dance games and lessons
Dance to learn – free educator resources
Online Dance Classes – free online but designed for adults so ignore the “sexy dance moves”. These would be good for highschool+
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