kidsongs

Benefits of songs to children

If you are on this site you probably already appreciate the benefits of songs to children but lets just formalise them here.

Songs have the power to impact upon every area of the child's development. They provide:

Sensory experience - which is the basis for all learning

Fun

Comfort

Connection

Confidence

Movement

Social development: observing, imitating, joining in, taking turns, bonding

Speech: pre verbal communication, sound development, word development

Musicality: melody, beat, rhythm, tempo

Cognitive development: listening, remembering, sequencing, patterning

and FUN.

So have fun with these songs -  use them in every day activities, use them in the car, sing one when your child is tired, change the words to relate to your child, rock to them, clap to them, dance to them, make shakers and shake to them. Children will remember them always. After all don't you remember some of the rhymes and songs you were sung when you were small.