Everyday Music Making for Babies (0-6 months)
Everyday Music Making for Babies (0-6 months)
Time-Tested Songs, Rhymes, and Activities to Nourish Every Child
by Connie Greenwood and Bronwyn Lawson
The intimacy of sharing musical moments with young children is one of life’s precious joys—and research points to the importance of music for a child’s growing brain.
Just as a treasured cookbook from a great-grandmother guides you in recreating a cherished meal, this book is your companion for everyday music making with your little one, filled with nourishing favorites. Each time-tested song and rhyme harnesses the wisdom of generations of caregivers and is filled with wonder.
Think of this as your musical cookbook. Consult the “recipe” and follow each step carefully as you use a rhyme or song with your baby. To help, this book includes:
Recordings and videos available via QR code.
Research about the benefits of music and how babies become musical.
Techniques to use with the different song types (for example, bounces for a newborn, how to keep the beat on tiny bodies, lullabies for sleep time).
Handwritten tips and ideas about how to create a musical home.
Music notation with lyrics and chords.
Pages to document favorite songs and rhymes from your own culture as a keepsake for your family.
Everyday Music Making for Babies empowers parents and caregivers to build a beautiful connection with their baby through music.
$40
with 30% of each sale directly supporting Bluebird Foundation’s First Steps in Music programs
Connie Greenwood, a FAME-endorsed First Steps in Music teacher, teacher trainer, mentor, and advocate, has taught birth to kindergarten music classes for over thirty years and brings a wealth of experience to this project. Connie runs her own music business, Greenwood Music Services, LLC, and presently teaches birth to kindergarten music classes in several schools as well as First Steps in Music parent-child classes.
Connie completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education at the University of Hartford. She is honored to be featured on the DVD First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers in Action (GIA, 2018). She is a contributing author for the book Feierabend Fundamentals (GIA, 2018) and wrote the First Steps in Music Parent Handbook (GIA, 2018).
Connie also partnered with Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project. Connie has raised four tuneful, beatful, and artful children with her supportive husband and is now excited to be sharing interactive musical activities with her seven precious grandchildren. Connie enjoys gardening, playing piano and singing on a worship team, and cooking for her large family.
Bronwyn Lawson began singing as a tiny dot on her mother’s knee and hasn’t stopped since. An experienced and passionate early childhood music educator based in Geelong, Australia, she completed an honours degree in music therapy at the University of Melbourne and a postgraduate Bachelor of Education at Deakin University before developing a particular interest in teaching the very young.
This passion for the tiniest of musicians led her to the work of Dr. John M. Feierabend, under whom she studied at Silver Lake College in Wisconsin. She later became the first Australian teacher trainer for the Feierabend Association for Music Education and continues to support early childhood teachers through First Steps in Music certification courses and mentoring.
Bronwyn is a regular contributor to little bluebirds, an online collection of creative ideas for young families, and firmly believes that parents are a child’s first and most important teachers.
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 96
Price: $40