As a crucial vehicle for young children’s artistic enlightenment, music appreciation holds an irreplaceable value in cognitive development, emotional edification, and the cultivation of aesthetic abilities. Currently, in music appreciation activities for senior kindergarten classes, there is a widespread phenomenon of homogenized teaching content and mechanized teaching methods, which results in insufficient enthusiasm for participation among young children and a superficial understanding of music. The situational teaching method, by constructing concrete and immersive learning scenarios, can effectively activate young children’s multi-dimensional sensory experiences. Its characteristics of intuitiveness and interactivity are highly consistent with the traits of young children’s concrete thinking, thus providing a new approach to resolving the current predicament. The research focuses on the practical pain points in music appreciation activities for senior kindergarten classes and proposes targeted solutions from four dimensions: content design, method innovation, resource integration, and teacher training, aiming to reconstruct a child-centered, in-depth music learning model. Practice has shown that the situational teaching method can not only enhance young children’s perceptual sensitivity to musical elements but also guide them to achieve emotional resonance through role-playing and life-related associations, laying a foundation for the sustainable development of young children’s musical literacy.