🐣 For Mini Music Makers (2-4-year-olds):
- Put on some music your child enjoys (not too loud). Move around to it. Dance with your whole body. Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns is great for this, as it has lots of contrasts.
- Sing your favourite songs from the Dropbox folder together – in the car, in the bath, anywhere!
- Play “fast and slow”: stomp like a slow elephant, then scurry like a fast mouse. 🐭
- Explore sounds around the house — pots, spoons, boxes. What makes the highest sound? The lowest?
🌟 For Music Adventurers (4 – 6-year-olds):
- Dance to some music your child enjoys and practise freezing the moment it stops – great for pulse and listening!
- Clap or tap the beat of your favourite songs — can you keep it steady all the way through?
- Can you walk the beat in time whilst singing?
- Play “echo me”: sing a short phrase and see if your child can copy it back to you
🏆 For Music Stars (7 – 9-year-olds):
- Put on some of your favourite music. Move around to it; dance; use your whole body. Think: is it in compound time or in simple time?
- Try writing one of the songs we’ve done in rhythm stick notation and put the solfa letters underneath
- Now try writing the song in staff notation if you have music manuscript paper
- Write your own rhythm patterns, then try adding a melody in solfa underneath, using notes from the pentatonic scale. If you have a keyboard, see if you can work out how to play it on the keyboard. 🎵