Our Play Space: Our Outdoor Music Space

ByChristie Burnett Updated on

A peek inside a reader’s play space…

My husband and I run a family home daycare and home school our 9-year old son. None of us are trained to play any musical instrument, but that doesn’t stop us from having a great time making music in the yard! Our outdoor music area is a favorite attraction for many of the children in our care. You can bang on the banging post, make thunder sounds with our thunder drum, jingle the tambourines, and test out a couple of different xylophones and chimes. Our joyful music can be heard for a couple of blocks!

You can find all kinds of photos and posts about our outdoor space on our blog, Child Central Station.

A great big thank you to Amy for sharing their outdoor music space, I especially love their huge xylophone, you can read the story of how they made it here.

Do you have a family or kids play space in your home that you love (indoors or outdoors)? Submit your play space here and you too could be featured on Childhood 101.

Be sure to visit the previous Our Play Space posts for more inspiration!


Christie Burnett is a teacher, author and mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to find engaging, high quality learning ideas.

5 Comments

  1. Thank you for featuring our outdoor music area! It is currently covered in a bit of snow, but that won’t stop us from making music with the pieces that are still above the white stuff!

  2. Kate @ Puddles and Gumboots says:

    Oh that looks like so much fun! I love the giant chimes

  3. I love it, I would l0ve to do something like this too!

  4. That’s so neat. I would like to do something like that. How do you keep things from rusting and otherwise degrading? The blog link isn’t working for me:(

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