Research shows that listening and playing along with music is one of the few activities that stim fully engages both sides of your childs brain. Add the fine motor coordination it takes to hold and instrument and tap in time to the music and your child is working on the coordination it takes to hold a pencil, cut with scissors, tie their shoes, and dribble a basketball later on.
For your Baby-Gently tap the steady beat on your baby's hand, foo, or knee with an instrument or your hand.
For your Toddler- Invite your child to use the instrument to tap on his/her own toes, knees or even tummy!
For your preschooler or big kid-Preschoolers ad older kids can march around the house in a musical parade working on their whole body competency-arms and legs together!
Kindermusik Tools:
Radio App- The Kindermusik Radio App (which can be used on any iPhone or iTouch with 4.0 software) offers a parent-child activity for every song, and each activity is designed to engage and entertain young listeners as well as stimulate early childhood development. To take a look for yourself, click here.
Play.Kindermusik.com- At play.kindermusik.com you can preview, purchase, and download your favorite songs and albums. You'll also find activity ideas to do at home, written by individuals from our network of over 6000 Kindermusik educators from round the world. Check out the musical e-cards you can send to your friends and family-some with great animations.
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We are having such a great time in our kindermusik class! It's so fun to see what she is learning in class transfer to home. When we were in the car just now Katherine was saying I love my seat, beat, beat. Beat Beat now gets added to a lot of her sentences. So fun!
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