From the womb to birth music has a place to play.
Babies can hear and respond to music playing outside the womb.
Playing music and singing to premature babies aids their development.
Even babies that arent premature are soothed by singing.
From personal experience, we sang the same song to my youngest daughter since she was born.
She is two this month and this lullaby still holds great calming power for her.
Moving on to toddlers; before they even learn how to speak their bodies react to music.
This time can be a really frustrating one for a child who is still finding their words.
It allows them to express themselves in a way they cant yet in words.
It also is excellent practise for them in terms of balance and coordination.
Have regular and spur of the moment dance parties in your house.
Children may sing the tune before they even make sense of the words!
This will encourage hand-eye coordination through their play.
Preschooler to school age children may start to become interested in learning an instrument.
This is excellent for their fine motor skill development as lots of instruments require intricate finger movements.
More then this, they will start to notice how some music can make you feel.
Sadder melodies may make them feel sad, whereas more up beat ones make them want to dance.
Older children to teenagers; this is when an opinion on music preference begins to emerge.
It may help mould their identities, deepen friendships and help them grow as people.
Instruments, isnt that expensive?
Allowing your children to play with instruments doesnt have to be expensive.
It is that super simple!
We made five different types of instrument in no time at all.
Here is some examples of what it’s possible for you to use that is already in your house.
Our orchestra included:
Instructions:
We used two empty transparent plastic bottles.
We took the wrappers off them, rinsed them out and dried them.
We then put rice in one and pasta in the other.
when you’ve got filled them 1/4 full, glue or sellotape the lids on.
You may need to explain to your younger children that it is not for opening.
Give a little demonstration, theyll soon be copying you!
We made two drums of varying sizes out of hard plastic tubs we had in our recycling pile.
We disposed of their lids and replaced them with balloons.
Cut off the thin section of the balloon, where you blow it up and throw that part away.
Find a stick or a spoon to use as drumsticks.
Each different sizes drum tub will make slightly different noises.
Cut up a cardboard wrapping paper tube up into 4 or 5 different size tubes.
Each one should be a few centimetres smaller than the last.
Line them all up, biggest down to smallest.
Sellotaping them all together would work just as well.
Use a stick or piece of cutlery for the stick.
Creating a flute is the same process as the xylophone but on a smaller scale with straws.
This will mean when you blow through them, each one will sound different.
Sellotape them all together in a line.
We used another plastic tub we had in the recycling.
If you ping each elastic band you will find that they all make different notes.
We used PVA glue and tissue paper.
We also used some colourful elastic bands to match the colours of the tissue paper.
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