Portugal is a country shaped by multiple cultures, which resonates every day in vibrant communities of musical diversity in schools. After the 32nd. EAS Conference in Évora, this workshop intends to invite the participants to a joyful musical trip back to Portugal. The session seeks to foster the participants’ creativity and play through music and movement proposals from across the country, with diverse methodologies to unlock voices and bodies: the participants’, and their students’ ones. The workshop is organised in three dimensions: i) creative and playful proposals with Portuguese music, designed as a class for 0-12-year-old children; ii) key concepts for theoretical discussion; and iii) methodological remarks involving planning and classroom management. Activity examples include the dance “Silva silva, enleio enleio” (from the Alentejo region, collected by Marchi, Piedade & Morais 2010), with the participants invited to improvise lyrics and movement; the song “Tia Anica” (from the Algarve region), with the participants engaged in gesture and rhyming improvisation; and the song “Dom Frederico”, with the participants replacing the words with creative gestures. The main concepts to be addressed are: i) the role of music in children’s cultures (Sarmento, 2021) related to learning contexts; ii) children’s musical agency and protagonism (Madalozzo, Fernandes & Ilari, 2025) within the Portuguese educational context; iii) participatory music practices in teaching and learning contexts (Baker, 2021); iv) music education as a common good and a possibility for fostering democratic citizenship based on equality, collaboration, sharing, and care (Kioupkiolis, 2019); and v) active citizenship in school (Fernandes, 2021) though music education. Besides the methodological discussion, the main implication for future practices is the development of a horizontal, democratic, and creative approach to music education among the participants, which may lead to the dissemination of songs, musical games, and inventive ideas to be adapted to their educational contexts.