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Creative Play Quick Tip: Dance to the Music
We love looking for ways to build key skills through play—and music play is no exception! Experimenting with volume, rhythm, pitch, tone, movement, and repetition is a terrific way to build key skills...
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Teach Mama Talks: Rockin’ Out with the Recorder
This educational idea is brought to you by Melissa & Doug , written by our Blog Ambassador Amy Mascott. “Music is an incredible way to develop important academic and social skills. The recorder is...
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This Week on the Melissa & Doug Blog: Dance to the Music!
Admit it: we’ve all had fabulous dance parties with our little ones. Ones where we bang on tabletops, clank on instruments, or just turn the radio up and stomp around the living room. But did you know...
View Article2 Play-Based Tools for Oral Motor Success!
Children need to build their oral motor skills to eat, swallow, speak, and make facial expressions (to say the least!) To do all of these properly, children must first develop awareness, strength, and...
View ArticleCrafty Instruments
Music provides many benefits for children. Not only does it increase academic achievement by stimulating the same parts of the brain responsible for language, math, and social-emotional development,...
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