Most often we include music for the child when he sleeps or falls asleep. But experts recommend giving listen to the baby various melodies in different life situations. When we rejoice we can put a positive moving melody, and when it's sad, we should put melancholic melodies. You can choose the appropriate tunes when the child eats, sleeps, bathes, is played. Subsequently, the child will successfully develop a sense of melody, your child will be able to easily determine the mood of the melody.
You can learn the rhythms of the melody as soon as the child starts walking. For this, clap your hands or stamp your feet with the baby to the rhythm. The first step is to teach the baby how to respond to the strongest sounds in the melody. For example, let him stamp his foot. However, you should choose such tunes, in which strong sounds are not frequent. As a result, the child should hear a strong sound and react to it with a conditioned signal.
In the second year of life, when the baby is already beginning to say something, you can start developing a musical ear in your child and introduce your child to low and high sounds. For this you can use either toy musical instruments, or bells, or your own voice. You can use toys such as a metal phone (metal plates, on which you can be wooden sticks), and / or a pipe. If you have a musical instrument at home, for example, a piano - it's fine. Examples of sounds produced by animals can show low and high sounds. For example, you can show how a mosquito is buzzing - these are very high sounds, the elephant is blowing - very low sounds, the dog is barking - sounds of medium frequency. It is recommended that these sounds be accompanied by movement. For example, let your child show how the mosquito flies and buzzes. In the same way, let him paint other sounds.
The duration of the sound can be studied using a pencil or pen. While the note sounds, let the child draw a line on the paper. And when your child learns to count, when you sound notes can be considered out loud.
We present to your attention several music games in which you can play with your baby.
A game for the development of musical ear: Guess what sounds. In this game you can play with a child from 3.5 years. You will need different household items. You can choose, for example, a cup, a frying pan, a pan, a plastic bucket or something. Take the pencil by the tip and tap on any of the objects, after asking the kid to turn away. After this, ask the child to determine which items you have knocked on. First he will knock out each object, trying it "by ear", until he hears the necessary sound. If he made a mistake, please try again. The game can be complicated when the child becomes older. For example, add new items that are similar in sound. Also, in the complicated version, you can add guessing the sequence of sounds.
Another version of the game for the development of hearing. It 's called the Glass Bottle . For this game you need some identical glass objects, for example, glasses, bottles or wine glasses and another metal fork or spoon. In the example below, a game with bottles is described.
First of all, in this game you can play years with 5-6. Fill a bottle with a certain amount of water (not to the brim). Take a fork or spoon at the very edge and tap on the bottle. Your child should repeat this sound. Let it accumulate as much water as you need to play your sound.
Also with the same objects you can play a series of sounds. Offer your child to collect a few bottles of different amounts of water and build them according to the sound. Bottles that sound low, place on the left and, correspondingly, ascending, bottles that sound higher, position to the right. Experts are confident that the child will be interested in doing this. Complicating the exercise, you can build sounds in some simple melody. Before you suggest writing something to your baby, show him an example and compose yourself. If you play this game often, then you can complicate it quickly. Add some new items to the melody, for example, a bell.
Option of the game to develop a sense of rhythm in the child. "Guess the melody . " You can play it at any time convenient for you, because you will not need anything other than your hands and a few free minutes. The rules of the game are extremely simple. Remember some kind of children's song or melody, and slap it. That is, pat the rhythm of the song. And do not forget about the manner of melody performance. When the melody sounds quietly, you need to clap more quietly, respectively, when the melody sounds louder, then you have to loudly clap the rhythm loudly. Suggest the kid to guess the melody by the rhythm you've pierced. And then let him slap his own. This time you will guess.