I Can Make Music: Play and Learn Activities to Empower Children Through Music - Softcover

I Can Make Music is a brand new activity book filled with a rich array of musically interactive ideas for parents to explore the palette of expressive possibilities for their young children, from three to five years of age. The multiple experiences are intended to draw parents into the world of their little ones, offering them games and playful encounters with the phenomenon of music as human expression. All activities are grounded in the developmental practices of music in early childhood, and suggestions for “playing out” melodic a nd rhythmic expressions require no specialized knowledge or equipment. Multi -sensory experiences are described in straightforward terms for parent and child activities that involve the capacity to listen, touch, and feel music together in song, play, and m ovement. I Can Make Music opens parents up to ways to enhance the cognitive, kin aesthetic and socio- emotional development of their preschool ers .

Patricia Shehan Campbell is the author of Music in Childhood and Songs in Their Heads, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures, and other books on music for children in school and at home. Her extensive research and teaching experience encompasses music and movement for children, and she lectures widely on the musical engagement of children. She holds the Donald E. Peterson professorship in Music at the University of Washington, and lives in Seattle with her husband and son. Maja Pitamic is the author of I Can Do It, the successful activity book for ages three to five, as well as the co-author of Modern Art Adventures. She has over fifteen years' experience of teaching young children and holds a degree in Art History and Montessori Teacher Training.