Abstract
Music education of children of early school age aims to develop children's musicality and contributes to developing of other competences. These include social competences.
Their development happens, among other things, by the activity-based nature of music education, which includes activities that promote group creativity. In musical games with boomwhackers, children are motivated to actively engage in joint activities, including creative activities, in which various aspects of social competence are applied.
Boomwhackers can be used in continuous teaching as well as in one-off music sessions targeting children's experiential learning. This paper briefly clarifies the concept of social competence, characterizes the subject of music education as a space for collaborative music education activities requiring, among other things, children's cooperation, and introduces boomwhackers as one of the appropriate means of group activity-based learning.
The paper concludes by proposing examples of musical games with boomwhackers that trace the possibilities of developing children's social competence in the context of music education for younger school-age children.