ACTIVITIES THAT FOCUS ON MUSIC AND DANCE
Providing music and movement activities strengthens your child's physical development, listening skills, social-emotional development, language skills, and communication skills. So, turn on the music and get moving!
Providing music and movement activities strengthens your child's physical development, listening skills, social-emotional development, language skills, and communication skills. So, turn on the music and get moving!
- Brain Building In Progress Activities for Babies and Toddlers
- Brain Building In Progress Activities for 3-5yo
- Try utilizing the same songs from our playgroups, like "The Cleanup Song", in your child's home routine.
- Make your own Musical Instruments
- Have a Dance Party
- Play 'Freeze Dance'
- Play 'talent show
- Draw the same symbol on two squares of paper for each song. Then put the squares face-down on the floor, and mix them up. You and your child can have fun taking turns turning over the squares, and singing the song while you look for the match!
- Some studies suggest that background music can help boost short-term focus - give it a try!
- Put on a jazz or classical station or fire up a playlist, then pull out drawing paper and crayons. Spend some time listening and drawing what you hear, using colors, shapes, lines, dots and crayon strokes to represent the instrumental sounds, themes, dynamics and musical moods you hear. As you draw, talk about why you're choosing different colors to represent different sounds, like the color orange for a trumpet.
- Play 'name that tune'
- Find "musical" library books with rhythm and rhyme
- Form a family band
- Dance with scarves
- March to a drum
- Use music and movement for "Brain Breaks" - a favorite is GoNoodle
- Listen to songs that teach a skill or lesson, like these songs about COLORS!
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Early Childhood Partners programs are funded by the Coordinated Family & Community Engagement (CFCE) grant awarded to Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. The HWRSD does not discriminate in its programs, activities or employment practices on the basis of race*, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, active military/veteran status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, or pregnancy-related condition, homelessness, ancestry, ethnic background, national origin, or any other category protected by state or federal law.