Age Range: Birth to 7 years.

Class Structure: Four units, each 10 to 15 weeks.

Class Length: 45 minutes.


Music class for families with multiple children ages newborn and up. In ten weeks, you'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family.

A one-room schoolhouse approach to music. With older children ready to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones eager to learn, Family Time becomes a multi-layered learning environment. Each week, a Kindermusik Educator will introduce basic musical concepts and then give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.

Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing—all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you—and they'll start developing the skills they'll need in school and on the neighborhood playground.

sOne convenient class that families can take together
sIntroduces musical concepts and develops musical skills
sAllows each child to develop social skills—such as sharing, and turn-taking—in a multi-age, multi-child environment
sStrengthens the emotional bond among family members

Each family receives a set of At Home Materials designed to integrate the classroom learning experience with the fun, Friday night activities you do together as a family. With music from class, story books, and creative play ideas and trivia, At Home Materials help your children associate learning with the unique time you spend together, bonding as a family. Repetition and family involvement in a child's learning is a fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the parent is the child's most important teacher and the home is the most important place for a child's learning to take root and grow.

s One hand puppet and finger puppet s Two instruments s Two literature books s Two CDs s Family Activity Guide

View the Family Time video below;

Try a Family Time activity at home:

'Dance with the stars'

Sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and invite the stars to dance with you. Cut five or six stars from shiny foil. Attach one end of a 20 to 30cm piece of ribbon to each star, and attach the other end to an empty paper-towel tube, a mixing spoon or a ruler to create your 'star stick'.

'star stick'

Your baby. Sing softly and wave the wand slowly in front of baby's eyes to develop her close-distance vision. Later she'll enjoy watching the wand go back and forth while developing the left-to-right looking skills she needs to be a good reader.

Your toddler. Let your toddler wave the wand and play a stop and go game. When he waves the wand, dance around the room like stars. When he stops moving the wand, stop dancing. "Stop and go" games like these help your toddler develop the listening, physical, and mental skills necessary to stop his body, and patiently wait for the next cue.

Your preschooler. A natural storyteller, your preschooler will explore new ideas as he makes up a story about this star stick. Simple questions that allow a lot of room for imagination, such as "Then what?," make a preschooler really reach for the words.

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