The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the possibility of using body percussion in the teaching of Musical Culture and its effect on students in the first three grades of primary education. The paper deals with the content of the official Curriculum document (2019) for the subject Music culture, within which one segment of music education is the practice of body percussion at school. In general, the concept of an open curriculum and the importance of the teacher's predispositions in teaching music culture are explained, which includes getting to know musical concepts such as rhymes, songs and listening to music accompanied by body percussion. Body percussion is the activity of producing sounds using the body. In the paper, emphasis is placed on the application of body percussion in work with children. In one chapter are given concrete examples of using body percussion in the teaching of Musical Culture. Body percussion is proved to be an excellent motivator for acquiring and repeating material in an interesting way. By using it, students get to know their body and its possibilities, create a positive image of themselves and their body. The advantage of body percussion is that it can be used in various social forms of work, either individually, in a couple or in a group, and this enables adaptation to each individual on his physical and mental level. For this reason, it is often used with students who have some kind of developmental difficulty.