Musical games have a high developmental effect because they encourage children's activity and independence. Through them, rhythmic skills and habits are easily built. They can also be used to diagnose musical abilities, to highlight children's emotional responsiveness to music, their musical-auditory ideas, their musical memory, imagination, etc. They contribute to inclusion in different types of musical activities - listening to music, performing musical works, and the movements inherent in them. Musical games are a source of pleasure and emotional saturation with the variety of activities and emphasized melodiousness included in them.

1. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use
which may be made of the information contained therein.

2. Children easily perceive folklore motifs, images and
themes, because their artistic thinking is close to the
aesthetic categories of folklore. It is fantastic, comic,
heroic, magical. Children's curiosity, their thirsty mind,
their awake senses make them particularly sensitive to
everything that surrounds them.
Holidays have a great educational significance. With
their form and content, they contribute to the overall
formation of the child's personality. Decoration,
costumes, music, dances cultivate aesthetic feelings.
The preparation of the holiday creates bright collective
experiences, an atmosphere of joy, sympathy and
friendliness. Understanding of some events is achieved
in accessible ways; children join the traditions of the
people. Interest in holidays becomes a prerequisite for
them to master norms of personal and social behavior,
they become attentive and responsive to each other.
Project „Let’s Share Our Games!“
2019-1-BG01-KA201-062605

4. Traditional music costumes

5. Traditional music costumes

6. Traditional music costumes

7. Traditional music costumes

8. Traditional Tuscan peasant dress for women
1= brown 2= green 3= light blue 4= yellow
5 = white 6= black 7 = red 8= dark blue
multicolored flowers

9. Traditional Tuscan peasant dress for men
1= brown 2= yellow 3 =white3= 4= black
5= blue 6= pink 7= green
multicolored flowers

10. LITHUANIAN
TRADITIONAL
CLOTHES
Children’s Rehabilitation center –
school “Pusele” Taurage, Lithuania
Five ethnographic regions are formed in the territory of Lithuania,
which are still different today in their distinctive dialects, as well as in
traditional clothing. The regions are Aukštaitija (up in the highlands),
Žemaitija (over in the lowlands), Dzūkija (way down south), Suvalkija (a
battleground of old) and Mažoji Lietuva (Lithuania Minor).
WOMEN’S MEN’S
o Shirts;
o Skirts;
o Aprons;
o Coats;
o Head covering;
o Woven belts;
o Footwear;
o Accessories. Amber jewelry
o Shirts;
o Pants;
o Smocks;
o Coats;
o Head covering;
o Woven belts;
o Footwear;
o Accessories.
Nowadays traditional costume is worn only on special occasions – national
festivals, and concerts.
Žemaičių clothes stand out from other regions in their glamor, richness and
plenty of expensive women's scarves and necklaces, men's coloured clothes.
ŽEMAIČIŲ NATIONAL COSTUME

11. Children’s Rehabilitation center –
school “Pusele” Taurage, Lithuania
 Aukštaitija is the largest ethnographic region. Its inhabitant's national
costume is the most archaic (oldest).
 Aukštaičių clothes are quite modest. It is characterized by its shape,
weaving method, patterns, and plenty of color white.
 A special woman element of the costume is the face and shoulders
surrounding the scarf, which is worn by married women.
 Men's holiday suit – rider clothes: long pants, boots. Summer headwear -
the retro hat.
AUKŠTAIČIŲ
NATIONAL COSTUME
ŽEMAIČIŲ NATIONAL COSTUME
 A very important part of a woman's suit is a skirt. Žemaičių skirts are usually
striped along, and very brightly coloured. The most common colour is red.
 A holiday žemaičių costume is unimaginable without cloaks.
 Men's clothes are dark colored: grey or mossy green.

12. Children’s Rehabilitation center –
school “Pusele” Taurage, Lithuania
DZŪKŲ
NATIONAL COSTUME
 Women's traditional clothes are characterized by an extraordinary variety
of colours, stripes and checks.
 Men's clothes are colourful but modest.
SUVALKIEČIŲ NATIONAL COSTUME
o Suvalkijos women's clothes are the most colorful and the most ornate
of all Lithuanian women's national clothes.
o The clothes of women are dominated by rich, dark colours: dark
blue, red, purple and green.
o The men, unlike the women of that region, on holidays wear light
coloured clothes.

13. Children’s Rehabilitation center –
school “Pusele” Taurage, Lithuania
MAŽOSIOS LIETUVOS
NATIONAL COSTUME
o The national costumes of Mažoji Lietuva, in some of their details, are the only
ones in all Lithuania. In this region the clothes of men and women are in dark
and rich colours.
o One part of the components of women's and men's clothing is the delmon - a
flat, gorgeous embroidered basket that attaches to the waist.
o Only the men of this region wear not only long, ordinary trousers, but also
shorter trousers.
NATIONAL CLOTHES OF FIVE REGIONS OF LITHUANIA
(From the left) Representative of Mažoji Lietuva, Suvalkija, Dzūkija,
Aukštaitija ir Žemaitija

14. Children’s Rehabilitation center –
school “Pusele” Taurage, Lithuania
COLORING ACTIVITIES
Use color code to finish the picture!
1 = red
2 = dark green
3 = yellow
4 = white
5 = light orange
6 = black
1 = grey
2 = black
3 = red
4 = dark green
5 = brown
6 = yellow
7 = light orange
8 = white

15. Preschool ,,Saulīte’’, Jūrmala, Latvia
Latvian traditional
Dances and Costumes
• We present you traditional dances, where the children
are in traditional costumes.
• Also we offer to get acquainted with the Latvian
folk dances ABC.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Gmgb-5KOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583CA4gzVyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgPQ-SbM8Rc

16. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission and Bulgarian National Agency
(project №: 2019-1-BG01-KA201-062605). This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission or NA
cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
Today's children are increasingly detached from
their roots. Folklore is an inexhaustible treasury
of wisdom, lessons and virtues. It creates a sense
of national belonging, of security and stability
through traditions and customs. It is accessible
for perception and stimulates the cognitive
activity of children. Therefore, it is an invaluable
source of education of personal qualities in
preschool age. That is why the inclusion of young
students to the national values ​​and traditions of
their people, ethnicity is extremely important!