Music for Little Ones

Music classes for toddlers & babies

This session has been developed for children from birth to 3 years old with an accompanying adult.

It consists of a series of specially selected songs each with their own activities designed to engage the children and to achieve constructive developmental outcomes and learning objectives. The songs and activities are largely the same from one session to the next so the development mainly happens as the children grow older and pick things up from each other and from the adults.

Usually the children leave the singing to the grown ups and concentrate on actions, movement and percussion although they often voluntarily sing the songs at home when they think no-one is listening! Around the age of 2 the little ones tend to start joining in singing in the classes but there is never any pressure to do so. 

The activities fall into four distinct groups:

• actions (eg. roly poly)

• percussion (egg shakers, claves and bells)

• movement (eg. walking/jumping)

• props (eg. soft toys, ball)

The learning objectives fall into two categories:

1. Musical (pulse, pitch, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, timbre, improvisation etc.)

2. Non-musical (coordination, sharing, group dynamics, instruction following, walking, cooperation, jumping, tip-toeing, hopping, listening etc.).

If you are interested in joining one of these classes, please get in touch with Dan.

The cost per class is £4.50 for one child and £6 for two siblings. Pay cash or by card in person after the class but the first class is free!

Currently, there is no regular lesson so please get in touch and we can see what we can do.