In suggesting resources and activities for music with under-threes, we've kept these simple - scarves and fabrics, small shaking instruments, sound baskets and so on. And the simplest, cheapest and best of all are your own voice and body movement, and the little songs and rhymes that you make up yourself, on the spot, to fit an activity or adapt from songs you know.
Music-making between adults and babies/children helps to develop relationships, musical conversations and communication. With under-threes, these activities are about the intrinsic value of shared experiences rather than teaching musical skills as such. But at the same time, the babies and small children are experiencing music and, of course, absorbing things all the time.
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