“Basket of Musical Fun” Giveaway: Ocarina set, CD, Earrings, & Music Curriculum ($75+ Value!)
Would you like to win this “Basket of Musical Fun?” I put this set together of some very special items I know you and your family will enjoy!
- An Ocarina
- Padded Case for the Ocarina
- Booklet of songs to play on the Ocarina
- Earrings with music notes Made in Mexico
- Christmas CD of a variety of songs and artists
- My curriculum called 21 Lessons in 20th Century American Music Appreciation
Fun, huh?
Let me tell you more about the individual prizes.
The Ocarina set includes:
AFUNTA 12 Hole Ocarina Ceramic Alto C Legend of Zelda Ocarina Flute with song book (with red neck strap)- Blue
. The song book includes a fingering chart showing you where to place your fingers to make each note and the music for “Twinkle Little Star,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Auld Lang Syne,” and Happy Birthday.” Retails for $16.99.
Brown Padded Ocarina Bag for 12 Holes Alto C Ceramic Ocarina. Since the Ocarina is ceramic (and breakable), this padded case keeps it safe! Retails for $5.83.
Video Game Songs for the 12 Hole Ocarina
. There are 33 video game tunes in this Ocarina songbook including songs from Super Mario Bros., Pokemon, and Tetris. Retails for $6.95.
Aren’t these earrings gorgeous? They are from a new company called Mexico Art and Decor (which officially launches mid-November) and are called “Mariachi Music Note Earrings.” They retail for $14.99 and are made of round Millefiori beads. The handmade flower patterns are featured in an array of colors. Due to the handmade nature, colors and sizes may vary slightly.
A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary
On this special Christmas CD (which retails for $5.94) you find:
| 1. Joy To The World – Train |
| 2. Something In The Air – Grayson Sanders and Jono, Featuring Lauriana Mae |
| 3. Angels We Have Heard On High – Jewel |
| 4. It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – Michael Buble |
| 5. Do You Hear What I Hear? – Jodin Sparks |
| 6. I Want You For Christmas – Cheap Trick |
| 7. Mary, Did You Know? – Rascal Flatts |
| 8. Best Christmas Ever – Wonder Girls |
| 9. Tennessee Christmas – Amy Grant |
| 10. Christmas Without You – One Republic |
| 11. Breath of Heaven (Mary’s Song) -Vince Gill |
| 12. Please Come Home For Christmas -Martina McBride |
| 13. Winter Wonderland – Jason Mraz |
| 14. December 25 – Francesca Battistelli |
| 15. Christmas Song – Dave Matthews Band |
| 16. O Holy Night – Christina Aguilera |
And, the last prize is a digital copy of my curriculum 21 Lessons in 20th Century American Music Appreciation. I keep hearing from homeschool moms who are using it this year how much they–and their kids– are loving it! Retails for $25.
What will you learn?
Table of Contents:
Introduction to 20th Century Music
Lesson 1……………………………………………………………….John Phillip Sousa (Marches)
Lesson 2……………………………………Scott Joplin (Ragtime) and Fats Waller (Stride Piano)
Lesson 3………………………………………………………………………………..……..Blues
Lesson 4…………………………………..….Jazz (Dixieland, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington)
Lesson 5…………………………………… ……George Gershwin (Folk Opera: Porgy and Bess)
Lesson 6…………………………..…………..Gian Carlo Menotti (Amahl and the Night Visitors)
Lesson 7…………………………………..….….George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue and songs)
Lesson 8…………………………………………..……………………………….Big Band Music
Lesson 9…………………………………………..……………………………….…..Charles Ives
Lesson 10…………………………………………………..……………………….Aaron Copland
Lesson 11………………………………………………………..…………………….Ferde Grofe
Lesson 12…………………………………………………..….…….Musical Theater Before 1965
Lesson 13……………………………………………………………….Rock and Roll Beginnings
Lesson 14………………………………………………………..…..Irving Berlin and Cole Porter
Lesson 15………………………………………………………..……….…Jazz (Bebop and Cool)
Lesson 16…………………………………………………Folk Music (Woody Guthrie and others)
Lesson 17…………………………………………….…………………………..Leonard Bernstein
Lesson 18………………………………………………………..…………………..John Williams
Lesson 19……………………………………………………………….……….………John Cage
Lesson 20…………………………………………………………………………….…Philip Glass
Lesson 21…………………….Musical Theater after 1965 (Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwartz)
Appendix……………………………………………………Further Study and Notebooking pages
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Read the Rules: Enter below on the Rafflecopter. Many links are new; if you enter my giveaways often, be sure you have followed each before clicking enter! Giveaway ends on 11/16/15, and the winner will have 24 hours to respond to my email. Open to ages 18+, and gifts can only be mailed to an address in the continental U.S. The Ocarina set and CD will be mailed from Illinois. The music curriculum will be emailed. The earrings will be mailed from Mexico Art and Decor. The retail value is over $75. A basket is not included.
The Homeschool Blogging Connection team is thrilled to bring you a collection of Gift Basket Giveaways! Each blogger participating is hosting a giveaway for a fun basket of goodies. Aren’t they fabulous????
Basket of Musical Fun includes an Ocarina set (12-hole ceramic ocarina, padded cover, songbook), Music Note Earrings from Mexico, a Christmas CD, and Music Appreciation Curriculum from I Choose Joy with a total retail value of $75!
It’s Nutcracker Season! includes a large nutcracker, The Nutcracker (book), a Nutcracker ornament, and a Color-Your-Own Nutcracker w/ four markers from Embark on the Journey with a total retail value of $38.95!
Keep Christ in Christmas with Melk the Monkey! includes a Plush Monkey, Melk, the Christmas Monkey Book; The Birth of Jesus Activity Book; Nativity Stickers; and a Gingerbread Cookie Cutter from Homeschool Preschool with a total retail value of $35.75!
Countdown to Christmas includes A lovely selection of Christmas decorations, gifts, and books from A Glimpse of Our Life with a total retail value of $75!
(COMING SOON!) Reindeer Games Preschool Party from Only Passionate Curiosity
Nativity Gift Basket Giveaway includes The Story of Baby Jesus picture book, a Nativity Set 18 Piece Christmas Puzzle Handcrafted wooden toy, a Little People Nativity Set, and The Christmas Story Lego Challenge (digital download) from Proverbial Homemaker with a total retail value of $91.97!
All About You Gift Basket Giveaway includes a FABRIC TRAVELERS NOTEBOOK, Set of oil diffuser bracelets, Wait Only Upon God devotional, and hand-painted art from Purpose Living Wife with a retail value of $50!
Sanity-Saving Giveaway for Stressed-out Moms includes an ESV Journaling Bible, the Live Loved Adult Coloring Book from Bethany House, a Prismacolor Pencils 12-Color Set, an Antique Bronze Diffuser Necklace from The Oil Collection, a Lavender Essential Oil (15 ml) from Mountain Rose Herbs, a $10 StarB gift card, and Putting on the Spirit: 10-Minute Devotions for Busy Moms by Katie Hornor all from Ben And Me with a total retail value of $100.
Faith-Filled History Giveaway includes The History of Religious Liberty by Michael Farris, and 5 books from the Christian Heroes: Then and Now series by Janet & Geoff Benge: Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt Wilfred Grenfell: Fisher of Men Loren Cunningham: Into All the World Florence Young: Mission Accomplished Sundar Singh: Footprints Over the Mountains plus a Drive Thru History DVD Discovering America’s Founders and a Kids Travel 2016 Calendar by Katie Horner all from Write Bonnie Rose with a total retail value of $98!
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Hi! The item in the first gift basket that I am most excited about is the Music Appreciation CD.
The ocarina looks like a lot of fun.
What a great giveaway.
I have a ten year old daughter who would like the ocarina.Thanks for doing a great giveaway.
My boys play guitar and drums. Have since 6yrs old. Now 11. This is a great giveaway to introduce different styles of music.
I’m most excited about the Ocarina. My daughter has one,and I’d love to give it a try myself. 🙂
The Ocarina! And CD!
Wow! What a great giveaway!! So many goodies. I would love the ocarina, to see if my son would pick it up. But the Christmas cd is nice too (one can never have too much Christmas music). And the music appreciation curriculum!
I know, that’s more than one…sorry. Thanks for putting this together.
I am most interested in the curriculum.
I am most excited about the Ocarina. I think we’d have a lot of fun with that!
I so want to play the ocarina. The Zelda tunes are beautiful!
This is such a fun basket! My daughter would love the earrings.
I am most excited about the music appreciation curriculum.
I am most excited about the ocarina in this gift set. My 13 year old daughter loves Zelda. This would be a wonderful gift for her.
I love the idea of the ocarina!
We are most excited about the Ocarina Set. It looks so fun!
I like the Music Appreciation – great choices.
Great giveaway, thank you
I would love the 21 Lessons in 20th Century American Music. My daughter would be most excited about another musical instrument to try!
The Music Appreciation curriculum is what really interests me.
I would love any of them but I especially love the Nativity Gift Basket Giveaway.
The Ocarina set looks interesting:)
I’m really interested in those earrings!
We’d love to add the ocarina to our collection of instruments!
The Ocarina is awesome. It would be a great addition for our music time in our Home preschool.
I’m glad you have the music basket give away or I never would have found you :o)
oops forgot to say the Ocarina Set excites me the most
Oh my goodness! The ocarina excited me the most!!! I absolutely LOVE music. It really speaks to my soul, and a new instrument to learn would be lovely! I have to say I’m a bit torn because I’m also very excited about the curriculum. To be able to teach my son about multiple genres of music would be such a blessing!
The item that I’m most excited about is the ocarina…my daughter enjoys learning how to play new instruments.
I’ve never heard of an ocarina before. Fascinating! My little boy would love it!
The CD Christmas music is great. Thanks for the generous giveaway.
Marilyn
The Ocarina is such a unique instrument, would be a joy to have!
The Christmas CD has some of my favorites on it all in one place!
What a great giveaway…We love music!
Thanks for sharing in this giveaway!
I had a friend growing up who had an ocarina and I always wanted one! So I”m most excited about the ocarina. It would be great to learn after all this time (and to teach my kids).
I am very interested in the Ocarina, nay fascinated.
Wow never heard of it the Ocarina is fascinating, I would like to play it.
The ocarina is pretty awesome!
The Ocarina sounds pretty cool, but I think the music appreciation course would be very valuable to our family of musicians and music lovers as well.
My son would love the Ocarina!
Having been a long time Zelda fan, the ocarina and song book excites me the most!
the ocarina 🙂
What a great giveaway, John Williams is amazing! This has so many good things that I could use for the kids.
The Ocarina!
I would love to have the Ocarina! The earrings are very pretty, too!
The Ocarina looks awesome!
My kids love music and I would love to introduce them to the Ocarina!
My daughter has been begging for an ocarina lately. I will let her have those, but I will take the earrings and CD!
The ocarina instrument is fascinating! I love trying out new musical expressions 🙂
The music looks like a lot of fun. They all will be very nice.
I think my kids would really enjoy the ocarina!
Musical Fun
I love the earrings the most.
I soo would love to win. I just soo in love with the Ocarina. Thanks for the chance.
I have three kids and I think each one would appreciate something different!
The ocarina looks interesting to me.
I would love the music curriculum…my kids love music and I would love to expand their horizons…
I think the music note earrings are really cute!
Thank you!
The Ocarina! It’s my favorite musical instrument from Meet John Doe.
I am most excited about the American music curriculum. That would be a fun addition to American history this year. I think my children would love to win the Ocarina.
I would have to say the Christmas CD. All of the gifts in the basic sound amazing.
We are most excited about the Ocarina. what a cool little instrument!
The ocarina is such a unique addition! How interesting would it be to learn this instrument versus the more routine choices of viola and trumpet that my older children chose. Thank you!
The ocarina looks like a fun instrument to play! My oldest would really enjoy trying it out!
I like the ocarina or CD.
It’s all great! Since the holidays are coming, I’d use the CD a lot!
All of it! Although I used to have an ocarina when I was a child, I haven’t seen it in years, so that would definitely be awesome 🙂
I’ve never heard of an ocarina, I’d LOVE to try one!
I don’t know how to choose just one! I think I would be excited about all of it.