Book Review: Everything is Music

Everything is Music is a quick read with a lot to look at that will slow the reading down and encourage kids to think about the music in the sounds they hear every day.

The book, written and illustrated by Miran Park (and translated by Paige Aniyah Morris) explores a day in the music of its sounds.

“When morning comes, the sounds stretch awake,” the book opens, following a little girl on a bike in a red dress that changes int a raincoat later in the book. Color is used sparingly other than the red coat and the yellow of the music of everyday objects.

You’ll find treble clefs hidden in bushes, birds flying though the shape of a cello, and lots of other instruments and musical notes decorating the simple line drawings of city scenes.

The story highlights the music found in the laughter of children, the whistle of wind down an alley and the pattering of rain in a storm. Sounds are said to whizz and woosh, while people walking in the rain pitter-patter and birds chirp after the rain ends.

“Everything is music,” the book notes.

At the end of the book you’ll find images of different instruments shown in the story such as a French horn, guitar, trumpet, xylophone and harp.

This fun little story is likely to get kids making their own music as you read, and they’ll be excited to point out the different instruments and notes once you’ve pointed them out once.

This would be a fun book for an elementary school music teacher to have to read to kids and encourage them to listen for and collect the sounds that are happening around them all the time as a reminder that it is all music and we are a part of the sounds that are the music in the world.

About the book: 44 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Blue Dot Kids Press. Suggested retail price $19.95.

Easy Musical Instruments for Kids to Make

A Yearlong Music Curriculum for Kids

Ghost crafts are a lot of fun for kids to make and they’re a way to get into Halloween crafting that’s not really scary. Here are some easy ghost crafts for you to make with kids, whether it’s your kiddo at home or a class full.

I love this simple ghost made with a pompom or cotton ball covered in paint and used as a stamp. This one is from Crafts on Sea and you can have kids just hold the pompom or hold it with a clothespin to make it a little less messy.

Use cotton balls and printable facial expressions to make these silly ghosts from Housing a Forest. The post includes the printable templates or you can just add googly eyes.

Little fabric ghosts are a classic, whether you make them with white fabric or fall or Halloween fabric. Buggy and Buddy shows you how to make these little ghosts with a few cute embellishments. Just make one or two or make a garland or Halloween tree full of them.

There always seem to be paper plates lying around, and this paper plate ghost from Crafts by Amanda is a fun one. There’s a printable in the post for the facial features and arms, or kids can draw their own faces (and leave off the arms if you want to keep it simple).

What kid doesn’t love peeling dried glue? Turn that impulse into a craft with these glue ghosts from Friends Art Lab, and don’t miss the tip in the post that helps you turn these into window clings.

This handprint ghost in the window craft from Glued to My Crafts is so cute and easy for kids to make alone or with help. The post shows lots of variations so it would be fun to make these in a classroom and let each kiddo design their own “window” or add embellishments.

These sweet little tissue paper ghosts from Red Ted Art are actually mini pinatas, but you can just make it as a ghost without anything inside if you’d rather.

And you know I love a good kids’ sewing project so I can’t resist sharing these little felt ghost puppets from The Craft Train. Kids can sew them by hand or you can make them out of paper if you don’t want to try sewing them. The template for the ghosts is free to download, and you can also just make little softies instead of puppets if you like.

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