Music for Preschool Children

This blog for parents illustrates the benefits of music education for young children.

Music is a natural and important part of young children’s growth and development. The National Association for Music Education explains that early interaction with music positively affects the quality of all children’s lives.

NAEYC shares an interview with Ella from 2014 on her 90th birthday where she discussed music and how she started creating songs for children.

Singing and dancing in early childhood classrooms provides children opportunities to move their bodies to improve important gross motor skills and build healthy habits. This journal article provides educators and family members with reasons why music should be infused into young children’s daily life and routines. 

The Extension website describes how activities in a music center can support children’s development across several different domains.

This website offers a variety of online musical games for preschoolers.

Young children explore music through play. Preschool teachers relate music to diverse subjects and families can continue this learning at home through ideas in this article.

This Carnegie Hall resource is a summary of a research paper by Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf, showing how music can play a role in everyday interactions that support young children.