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Children can get musical instruction running around a playground, according to Brooklyn Child Care Center Preschool Director Tania Lipkin.

"It's great to incorporate outside just because it's not only physical activity but it's instructional," says teacher Lauren Bonsignore. "So it's not like we just have them running around aimlessly. And they're learning about high sounds and low sounds."

Incorporating sounds in all instruction is what Lipkin pushes for daily. It's an easy concept she says parents can do at home.

"You don't need to be a musician," she says. "You just need to understand concepts of games and you can use it."

Lipkins says it's as simple as singing scales as you go up steps, or tapping on bottles – full, half full, and empty.

In Lipkin's new instructional book called "We Play Music," she also assigns high and low sounds to colors. Red is a high note; yellow is low. So when children see a colorful object, there's also a musical connection.

Parents say the program helps bring out their children's natural musical abilities.

"It could be just my kids in the garden by noticing the low leaf and the high leaf, middle leaf," says parent Ralph Mercante.

"It caught the children's attention and it held their attention," adds parent Regina Diggs. "And, I think, through music, learning is easier. Because it's something they enjoy."

Lipkins says music can also be taught as kids play in the sand and fill up bottles to make different sounds. Or, she says they can learn as they sing some notes while working on a colorful art project.

"What can be better than your child singing? If you're child is singing, it means your child is happy," she says.

For more information on Lipkin's musical program, go to WePlayMusicBook.com.