Multisensory Learning for Babies

Parenting Tip:  Dance & play to your Kindermusik songs, with baby!

 

Why?

Sensory play that engages in more than one sense, helps build neural connections and supports language development, cognitive growth, fine motor skills, and problem solving skills.

Learning that involves multi-sensory crossovers and sense-memory is more likely to stick. It's like glue to the brain.

 

How?

Use sign language with baby! Sign language is multisensory – you can see it, feel it in your own hands, and hear the words as we speak them while signing. That's a big reason why it's so helpful for language development.

Play the 'Spider on the Floor' game, and include some tickling!  It provides tactile stimulation, social development, and body awareness.

Play a favorite song, and bounce, dance, move, make sounds, and play! To add suspense, count with your fingers to '1…. 2…. 3!!' when starting something new with the song.

 

Want to Learn More?

On our blog:  Learn how multisensory = more memory & more skills!

 

Kindermusik 7-year Continuum: 

Using multisensory play with Kindermusik songs as babies, leads into toddlers using multiple senses to match the steady beat (moving to the beat, watching scarves bounce to the beat, hearing the shakers shake to the beat, feeling Mommy bounce me to the beat).   Preschoolers use multiple senses during pretend play, leading into musical discovery (See the 'snowflakes' falling from the sky, hear the twinkly sounds of the bells as the snowflakes fall, hear the downward glissando on the glockenspiel, representing those falling flakes).  Big kids in Young Child classes use multiple senses to understand musical concepts they can transfer to instrument play (moving feet to 'tah' and 'tee-tee' sounds directly transfers to hands playing quarter and eighth note rhythms on the glockenspiel;  playing 'quiet' and 'loud' music games transfers to playing 'piano' or 'forte' on instruments.