Lullabubbas - 'Our Songbook'

​Our goal was to co-design an Early Years project with parents, carers, nursery staff and 0-4 year olds, in order to co-create a songbook and accompanied recordings of community-written songs encouraging more music making and child-led musical play within nursery and home settings. Our plans included a combination of musician residencies in local Early Years settings and music sessions in the local community with parents, carers and their young children with one of the groups focusing on working with Young Parents.

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We set out to co-create fun, engaging and creative music making sessions using a wide range of musical instruments and resources with plenty of space for child-led play and exploration. Throughout these sessions, we aimed to empower parents/carers to continue music making at home beyond our sessions.

 

This Trailblazer project was designed to allow us to try new ways of working and to learn about how our future work might be best shaped in Early Years music making. We set out with a few questions:

• What music making currently takes place in nurseries and pre-schools in Torbay and the South Hams?

• How can we help Early Years practitioners to feel more confident making music with the children they support?

• How can we support parents/carers to continue music making at home beyond education/childcare settings?

• How can we encourage more specifically child-led, instrument and voice based music making in Early Years settings and at home?

• How can we as a small CIC improve access to quality music making opportunities for young children in Torbay and the South Hams?