Why choose a Caterpillar Music class?
Caterpillar Music has been providing music sessions since 2001 and thousands of families every week enjoy our classes at over 100 locations across the UK.
What are the benefits of music sessions?
Experts agree that music enhances learning and helps babies and adults communicate and every class at Caterpillar Music is carefully planned with nursery rhymes and songs to help develop vocabulary. Playing percussion instruments fosters dexterity and provides an early introduction to music for young babies and children. Interaction with other children develops social skills, confidence and fun.
In each weekly class, parents or carers actively join in - and for good reason. It has been shown that children benefit from activities in which their parents or carers interact with them.
The Caterpillar class - suitable for babies & toddlers together
The Caterpillar class is a mixed age group for young babies and toddlers to enjoy together.
Babies love music
Babies are never too young to enjoy Caterpillar Music and they enjoy watching other babies and older children- it encourages them to crawl, stand up and eventually start taking a few steps in order to follow the fun with the older children!
Babies love music and are captivated by the puppets and fun activities at every session - they soon recognise favourite songs, rhymes and music.
Butterflies - classes for toddlers
Which part of the class do our toddlers most enjoy? It's hard to choose, but the action songs are certainly a favourite. With jumping songs and animal sounds, parents comment on how the children love to sing and do all the actions at home too.
Toddlers enjoy our weekly themes
Children enjoy searching for something "red" to wear or looking through their books for a picture of a sea animal, or bringing in a favourite teddy bear to show everyone. During the class, toddlers enjoy watching and following each other and social skills and confidence grow every week. Toddlers at the Butterfly class enjoy joining in with lots of actions and music and movement.
The classes are very relaxed and you can choose to join in as much as you want to. Children can learn and develop at their own pace- some may enjoy watching others before they are ready to join in.
Every class is different, according to the ages of children there - ask your local class leader for advice when choosing a class for your child if you are unsure whether to choose Butterflies or Caterpillars.
Nurseries, Children’s Centres & Schools
Caterpillar Music also delivers training for early years professionals and also regular weekly sessions for nurseries, children’s centres and schools in addition to sessions provided for the Government funded Sure Start projects since 2003.
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