12 months - 6 years. Rhymes and rhythms boost learning phonological awareness. Each rhyme is sung, and then followed by a finger play or simple activity set to the music, and then sung once through again to reinforce the language. Guide with lyrics/activities.
3 years & up. Incorporate music into your child's learning with this exciting Cajon Inspired Rhythm Drum Box for Music and Rhythm Learning. This instrument promotes fine motor skills, rhythm learning, sensory learning, and hand-eye coordination. Children will love using their hands to make wonderful music. Encourage children to follow along to a specific rhythm or create their own unique beats.
Birth & up. Babies will enjoy listening to the lively melodies on the Playful Baby CD! Music nourishes a baby's developing brain. Enhance active listening skills and spatial awareness with recordings that are designed to stimulate and energize playtime. By playing music, you can help build a strong foundation for cognitive and sensory development.
3 years & up. Start the day off with excitement using this wonderful Circle Time Activities CD for Theme Based and Transition Activities. This CD can be used daily to get children's minds and bodies stretched and refreshed. Circle time activities promote gross motor skills, collaborative play, balance, flexibility, and listening skills. Ensure your children have enough space to move around before starting.
3 years & up. These music and scarves activities encourage creative and musical expression, imaginative play, color recognition, gross motor skills, and collaborative work. Children will love waving their bright colored scarves through the air as they follow along to an activity or freestyle. These activities also address tactile, auditory, visual and kinesthetic skills. Includes individual and group activities. Scarves sold separately.
3 years & up. Take a dance break in the middle of the day with this exciting Dance Party Fun CD for Engaging Classroom or At Home Physical Activity. This CD can be used daily to get children's minds and bodies stretched and refreshed. Dance parties promote gross motor skills, flexibility, balance, collaborative learning, and listening skills. Encourage your children to follow along with a dance together or to freestyle and express themselves. Ensure your children have enough space to move around before starting.
3 - 7 years. Spanning cultures and generations, Greg & Steve touch every aspect of the early childhood curriculum. With more than two million recordings sold to date, Greg & Steve hold the rank of the number-one children's music duo in the country. It's easy to see why their singable lyrics and catchy melodies are set to a contemporary beat. Parents and teachers alike find Greg & Steve's tunes a fun way to teach children basic concepts such as colors and numbers as well as friendship… More »
3 years & up. Here's a fun way for young children to combine their favorite "props" with activities, reinforce school readiness, and sharpen physical development. Throwing and catching bean bags and scarves are child-friendly ways to prepare children for future literacy skills. Rhythm instruments help stimulate a sense of musical tempos and beats to reinforce math skills. These props are appealing to children encouraging them to stay engaged!
2 years & up. Introduce your children to the shooting sounds of jazz with this wonderful Twinkle Twinkle Jazzy Star CD - Jazz Interpretations of Classic Children's Songs. On this CD, Thomas Moore plays jazz interpretations of traditional songs for children with his tenor saxophone. Music promotes rhythm learning, mindfulness, and listening skills. The songs included are smooth, relaxing and captivating for all ages.
3 years & up. Introduce children to cultures and experiences of other people as well as their own. Read stories about other cultures, learn about foods from other countries, play music, create a self-portrait. Books, instruments, posters, art supplies and dramatic play accessories...this classroom kit is packed with plenty of materials and ideas for activities and discussions to celebrate diversity. Includes activity card(s) written by Dr. Tonia Durden, clinical associate professor of early… More »
12 months & up. Engage your children in song and dance with this fun Sing Along Classics CD Collections of Children's Favorite Songs - Five Little Monkeys. This CD promotes gross motor functions, rhythm learning, collaborative learning, and listening skills. These family friendly songs are full of action with cherished old favorites and more! The included teacher guides have activities and links to books for extension ideas.
3 years & up. Invite children to experiment with sound using the Musical Wooden Marble Tree! Encourage children to hypothesize as they drop a marble at the top of the tree and listen to the beautiful, acoustic tones each branch produces. This musical toy enhances hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills as children grip each marble and visually track the path down the tree. Includes four glass marbles. Marble Tree measures 6.3"L x 6.3"W x 14.6"H.
4 years & up. Learning doesn't stop at the classroom door! Expand curriculum into the outdoor environment with Out and About Music & Movement Kit. This kit provides a variety of learning experiences that enable teachers to reinforce curricular concepts in a fun, hands-on way. Exploring music and rhythm helps to develop balance, spatial awareness, and whole body/brain integration. In addition, exercising with cross laterals is powerfully connected to cognitive growth and reading readiness.… More »
Grab your parachute and follow along with this fun cd. Your children will love moving the parachute with their classmates as they follow along to songs from around the world. This activity promotes listening skills, gross motor skills, and outdoor learning. Running time is approximately 30 minutes.
3 years & up. These scarves and music CD activities encourage creative and musical expression, imaginative play, color recognition, gross motor skills, and collaborative work. Children will love waving their bright-colored scarves through the air as they follow along to an activity or freestyle. These activities also address tactile, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic skills. Set includes individual and group activities, 12 scarves, and 1 CD.
12 months & up. Engage your children in song and dance with this fun Sing Along Classics CD Collections of Children's Favorite Songs - Three Silly Little Kittens. This CD promotes gross motor functions, rhythm learning, collaborative learning, and listening skills. These family friendly songs are full of action with cherished old favorites and more! The included teacher guides have activities and links to books for extension ideas.
This CD features various types of music from funky and groovy sounds to classical and techno tunes. The fun kids' songs on this album are diverse and unique to provide an array of music to move to. The versatility of this club mix music makes it very useful for multiple genres of dance. The music flows well from one tempo to the next. The original and motivating pieces will spark original and motivating warm-ups, center work, across-the-floor combinations and choreographic ideas. There's a genre… More »
With fun, singable lyrics and catchy melodies set to a contemporary beat, parents and teachers alike find Greg & Steve's tunes a fun way to teach children basic concepts as well as friendship and cooperation. Some of the tunes include "The Body Rock", Animal Action 1" , "The Freeze", "Count Bounce", "My Shadow, Poetry in Mothion" and more. 15 tunes in total.
Twelve call-and-response songs with lyrics in English and Swahili inspired by Ella's experiences in Kenya and Tanzania. Includes: Jambo, On Safari, Counting on Swahili, Pole Pole, Yemayah, It's a Holiday, Annie My Cooking Friend, Barreling on Down the Highway, Seasons, A Trains-A-Coming, The Hi-de-ho Man and more.
A CD set with over 3 hours of traditional and original children's songs. The 3 CD set includes songs that teach colors, shapes, letters, numbers, manners and more. Some of the favorites include: The ABC Song, B-I-N-G-O, Eensy Weensy Spider and Hickory Dickory Dock. Also includes marches, songs about feelings and safety.
3 years & up. Inspire your future musician with this durable Tom Boy Drum with Mallet. This drum features a handle and an easy to grip handle and mallet. The sturdy wood laminate frame is covered with artificial calfskin. Play by gently hitting the drum head with a mallet. This instrument promotes fine motor skills, dexterity, rhythm learning, and hand-eye coordination. 10.75"L x 6.75"W x 2.25"H.
3 years & up. Add another instrument to your classroom band with this durable 6" Triangle with High Pitched Tone for Classroom Music and Rhythm Learning. This sturdy, steel triangle is perfect for adding a clear ringing tone to classroom play alongs. This instrument promotes hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and creativity. To play, simply hold by the attached string and hit with the striker bar. Encourage children to follow along to a rhythm or create their own unique beat. Measures 6"L.
Lullabies for Sleepy Eyes is a diverse 16-song collection offering folk-renditions of lullabies from Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Yiddish, French and Australian traditions, among others. Although the lullabies are aimed for children ages one to five, the familiar, soft melodies work wonderfully for infants as well. With this album, Vocalist Susie Tallman provides a distinct sound much different from other children's albums making this album warm and clear, with textured gentle music that will link parent… More »