Musikgarten Classes

Family Music for Babies:

Bonds the child and parent/caregiver. Introduces playful musical activities.

• Bouncing and rocking songs.
• Wiggle and peek-a-boo games.
• Singing, dancing and moving.

Teacher plays the role of coach. Parents learn ways to play musically with their babies in arms.

Benefits to child:

• Nurtures a bond of love and security.
• Increases child’s curiosity about music.
• Develops child’s listening skills and sense of flow and beat through movement.
• Provides a musical model for both parent/caregiver and child.

Family Music for Toddlers

Once babies start walking, everything changes.

• Children explore and experiment with the world of sound more on their own.
• These “learners in constant motion” get to sing, chant, move, dance, listen and play simple instruments.
• Stimulates musical interaction between child and parent.

Benefits to child:

• Channels toddler’s energy productively.
• Facilitates expression of feelings.
• Assists memory through repetition.
• Develops further musical aptitude and focused listening.

Music for Pre-Schoolers

• Activities build on the child’s growing independence and competencies. Nurtures three year olds’ ability to use language.
• Capitalizes on the child’s delight in dramatic play within the musical context.
• Lessons include: songs, movement activities, exploration of instruments and imaginative stories for children to make their own.

Benefits to child:

• Enhances moving, singing and talking skills.
• Develops listening, focused attention and self-expression skills.
• Taps into the child’s vivid imagination.
• Lays foundation for creative development via story-telling and play-dance response to poetry

Instrument Kit:
All instruments of made of highest quality materials.

Baby Instrument kit includes cd, wooden rattle, rhythm sticks, scarf, and parent booklet.

Toddler/Pre-School kit include cd, and one of the following instruments: rhythm sticks, scarf, jingle stick, finger cymbals and parent booklet