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5 Best Music Activities for Kids Aged 0-2 Years

April 11, 2022 By Sara Mullett 8 Comments

It is never too early to introduce your baby to music. These music activities for kids will hopefully give you some ideas about how to integrate music into your day to day routine.

From helping with co-ordination and language skills, to cognitive development, music is an essential part of every child’s education. So here are my five best music activities for kids for newborns through to toddlers.

You don’t have to be a ‘music expert’ to do music activities with your kids at home. Anyone can have a go!

Best Music Activities for 0-2 Years

Best Music Activities for Kids Aged 0-2 Years

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Sing musical rhymes and songs with your baby from birth as often as you can. Include them in your daily routines from getting dressed to bathtime. Don’t worry about your singing voice or really singing the “right” tune. Babies aren’t fussy and singing rhymes together is one of the best ways to interact. Check out our Top 10 Tunes For Toddlers for some inspiration.

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Lots of communities have music activities for kids such as rhyme time or other musical classes advertised in local libraries. It’s great for making friends and they learn so much from them. Your baby will get most out of them from about 9 months old. You can also do your own at home or with a group of friends using my lesson plans.

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Collect good quality percussion instruments and a xylophone or chime bars to have as part of your toy box. They make great presents and good ones last for years. You can even invite some friends over to share your music time.

baby-music-ideasPlay a variety of good quality recorded music to your child from all different genres. Click here to see our list of suggestions for where to start with the best classical tracks. I also have playlists for fairy dancing, swashbuckling pirate adventures, and marching.

baby-music-ideasSettle your little one at night time with some lovely lullabies or other soothing music. Music really does have a wonderfully calming effect and is reassuring and comforting at bedtime.

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Comments

  1. Alice says

    October 24, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    I have just found your site and see many wonderful ideas to supplemental my teaching style and career. However, before I order anything, I need to know if it is the American style???

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    • Sara Mullett says

      October 25, 2020 at 2:01 pm

      Hi Alice, Although Let’s Play Kids Music is a UK based blog, we use US style notation for the convenience of our US readers, and we usually include the UK note names in brackets.

      Reply
  2. Jan Kwek says

    June 25, 2016 at 7:16 am

    Helpful and Useful! Thanks

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  3. kat says

    January 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    this is a great blog- i am homeschooling my 4yr old/she is doing ballet, and i was looking for good resources for us to learn beat. I also really like your homepage how it has a few blogs on where to start- i have my own blog, and i have never thought of that! great idea 🙂 Thanks for sharing your knowledge/love of music.

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    • Sara Mullett says

      January 13, 2015 at 11:32 pm

      Thanks so much for your comment Kat! So pleased you are enjoying the blog!

      Reply
  4. Irene Lee Cheow Tee says

    November 3, 2014 at 12:06 am

    I loved it so much.

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