Want to stop wondering how to run music lessons for kids and get back to enjoying your leisure time? Want to avoid paying for an expensive course and just focus on some basic ideas to get you started? Instead of struggling with a new and complex curriculum design, or learning a method that restricts your creativity, we want you to spend your evenings and weekends playing music, inventing new dances, baking, and enjoying time with your friends.

• Buy our ‘done-for-you’ written programs, download music that kids love
• Enrol in a short courses in early childhood music
• Enrol in a free course and get a preschool music activities pdf
• Fulfill your dream to become an early childhood music expert and create your own music program

You will save yourself hundreds of hours work and many, many dollars as you set up your world-class preschool music activities. Learn what the research says, what curriculum frameworks say, and what others have done in various countries and locations.

Here’s what one educator says: “Having this library of work has been a godsend . . . it has really made such a difference to me.” Amy Ryan from UK

1st. It’s Not a Franchise

We don’t tie you down. You simply buy our resources or courses and start using or self-studying them straight away. You can adapt our resources in your sessions, business or early learning centre as soon as you download them. If you have lots of questions, you can join one of our courses, groups, or personal Zoom sessions.

Our approach is embedded across all the teaching resources, programs and professional development in early learning through music and movement. We welcome inquiries from all who work with babies, toddlers and children aged 3-6 years.

• educators,
• music teachers,
• centre and academy directors,
• performing artists,
• librarians,
• community cultural developers,
• speech pathologists,
• music therapists,
• parents, grandparents and carers

2nd. Improve Pro-social Skills

The approach places strong emphasis on the children improving their social skills by playing music together and learning through music and movement. But it’s much more than social skills — the children “learn musical languages and skills”*. We emphasise  personal, group and cultural identity through songs, dances and instrumental music.

3rd. Help with Planning Your Own

We help you plan your own group sessions where the children are learning musical and other skills: singing, improvising, moving and dancing in time to music, playing simple instruments with expression, listening with discrimination, dramatising and engaging in creative play. And all the while, you, the children and the other adults are enjoying making music together. It’s a team-building approach.

4th. Learn Curriculum Design

You will deepen your expertise in curriculum design, and soon you will be delivering it your way and adding your preferred content. Our courses help you design your very own music programs — working with your creative energy. Start here to learn the ropes, then take off!

5th. Get Quick Results 

Notice quick results — after you deliver 3 or 4 music sessions using the Musical Child Approach, you’ll start to notice significant improvements in the children’s skills and confidence as they “express themselves musically in all freedom”*, and, importantly, you’ll enjoy a deep sense of fulfilment because you’re doing what you love.

6th. Evidence-based

Deep curriculum design — it looks and is easy to implement, but underneath the hood, we spent thousands of hours on design, finding evidence from researchers and great practitioners, choosing appropriate songs and music, recording the songs, then planning, testing, refining, and making room for the educator to shine. We want your children to “have access to musical involvement through participation, listening, creation and information”*.

 International Music Council

* Where you see the asterisk, it indicates a quote from the 3 Music Rights written specifically for children. These are taken from the 5 Music Rights proclaimed by the International Music Council (IMC) in Tokyo in 2001. The IMC was founded by UNESCO in 1949.

1. We explicitly link to the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia in all courses. We regard children as competent and capable.

2. To keep you up to date, Musical Child adopts the latest research findings and approaches from around the globe, from Helsinki to Sydney.

3. You can be sure of an international perspective because we regard access to music as one of the 5 rights of all children as proclaimed by the UNESCO commissioned International Music Council.

4. When you follow our approach you’ll discover that regular music lessons for kids stimulate the children to play with music and express their creativity. It doesn’t matter if the child is new to the group, everyone can join in at any point.

5. Parents and educators report that children spontaneously play musically after the music sessions even if they seem shy or reserved during the session. As one parent told us: “He is not afraid to burst into song”.

There are benefits, musical and general, linked to all of the 5 Learning Outcomes in the Australian National Framework. Here are just a few benefits of music for kids whether it’s an activity, an experience, a lesson or a spontaneous musical moment —