Vocal Exploration Tools | Playfully engage children's voices — Medley Music Access & Inclusion

Vocal Exploration Tools

The items linked below are ones that we use to playfully elicit flexible vocalization from our students. We find that they are most responsive to vocal exploration when we actually place an object into their hands. Attend one of our PD sessions to learn more!

Props to go WOO!

Do-It-Yourself Yarn Ball

Props to go ACHOO!

A penguin-shaped bocce ball set with four black bocce balls.

A toy llama with a face mask, carrying a green backpack, and four blue balls with snowflake patterns.

Two hand-held fans with blue handles and bamboo spokes, the fans are decorated with flowing, semi-transparent fabric in shades of blue, purple, pink, and orange.

Two blue toy shark ball poppers with black foam balls and a hand squeezing one of the poppers.

A person holding a unicorn-shaped toy with rainbow-striped balls coming out of its nose, surrounded by similar rainbow balls, on a white background.

Two owl figurines made of carved and painted wood or resin, with detailed feathers, large yellow eyes, and perched on rocky bases.

A sloth with a smiling face, standing upright, with four greenish balls in front of it and one in its mouth.

Toy dinosaurs playing with soft foam balls and a small orange ball.

Props to sound like an animal!

A young boy sitting on the floor surrounded by toy sea animals, including whales, sharks, and dolphins, holding a small fish toy and smiling.

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Two ball launchers with white balls, one green and one purple, placed on a white surface.

A pink unicorn figurine with a yellow horn, blue eye, pink mane, and rainbow-colored balls around it, with one in its mouth.

A shark-shaped toy with a large red nose and two red balls at its base.

A toy figure of a white axolotl with pink frills on its ears, a cartoonish eye, and a teal ball in its mouth.

Collection of toy wolf figurines in various colors and poses.

Colorful silicone slap bracelets, rings, and wands in blue, green, yellow, and pink arranged in rows on a white background.