Music for toddlers? Paging hens mum

[eratmama]

Pumpkin loves loves loves some music- dancing & playing music. We were going to take a music class at the Y, but there was not enough interest. Kindermusik classes are $240 here-- too much for us!

Any suggestions for resources or songs we can use at home? Especially stuff he can play his little instruments with or sing with Carrot?

Thanks!! There are only so many times I can sing hokey pokey & Itsy bitsy spider

[twotrue]

hensmum - there, that should page her.

[thiswillbe]

I would definitely look into Music Together. You get a CD (actually, a pair of CDs) when you take a class, and those are the ones we listen to in the car most often.

[hensmum]

Oh hi! Sorry. Check out musictogether.com to look for classes in your area. Based on pricing in my area, I would guess that it is less than Kindermusic. And in my opinion it is a much better program. Classes run in 10 week sessions, and as thiswillbe said, you get two copies of the music and a nice songbook. Classes are mixed age for babies/toddlers/preschoolers, and really fun Everything in the class is based on years of research of how children learn and process music. It's a very musically rich program, and really beneficial developmentally.

As far as listening at home - check out toddler stations on Pandora or Spotify. I love the Toddler Tunes station on Pandora, and you can "thumbs down" any song you don't like, and it will never play it again. You can also search for Music Together songs on Pandora.

Some other fun kid music - Raffi, Laurie Berkner Band, Bari Koral, and Lisa Loeb has some kid albums