The educational content of preschool children’s music appreciation activities is referenced as follows:

Music appreciation refers to using specific musical works as objects to help children feel and understand through listening and other auxiliary means. Music is an aesthetic activity that provides spiritual pleasure.

"Listening" is the most important way of learning music appreciation. It is different from casual "listening", but a kind of conscious listening, "listening attentively" with attention. It not only refers to intentionally using hearing to absorb the beauty of music, but also includes using hearing to absorb the beauty of various sounds in the surrounding environment, and even includes paying attention to listening and feeling the beauty of "silence".

Let’s start with “listening” and talk about the educational content of music appreciation activities for preschool children. The educational content in the field of music appreciation for preschool children mainly includes: listening to the sounds in the surrounding environment; appreciating musical works and simple knowledge and skills in music appreciation.

Listen to the sounds in the surrounding environment:

The environment around us, whether it is nature or social life, is full of various sounds: birds chirping, frogs croaking, storms The whistling of water, the ticking of rain, the whistle of cars, the rumble of trains and planes, etc. These sounds, the tones of people's languages, simple folk songs, etc. are all important sources for musicians to create.

World-famous songs such as "Flight of the Bumblebee", "Skylark", "Raindrops", "Pastoral", etc. are human subjective feelings about natural sounds expressed through the artist's mind and using superb artistic techniques. Songs and music created especially for preschool children that are popular among preschool children also contain many components that simulate natural sounds, such as the sounds of animals and vehicles that are familiar to children.

If children’s interest and ability to listen to various sounds in life around them can be cultivated from an early age, it will lay a good foundation for them to appreciate music works. Therefore, educators should make full use of every opportunity to naturally and consciously guide preschool children to listen to the sounds in life around them, and enrich their various perceptual experiences with sounds.

The following activities can be used to guide preschool children to listen at any time in daily life:

1. Listen to the sounds in the activity room.

2. Listen to the sounds in the courtyard and event venues.

3. Listen to the sounds in the kitchen.

4. Listen to the sounds in the bedroom.

5. Listen to the sounds of various vehicles on the road.

6. Listen to the sounds of various construction machinery on the construction site.

7. Listen to the sounds you hear when playing in parks and suburbs.

8. Listen to all the other voices you hear in your life.