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Hello, it's Anne here. So do you ever feel it's too much work to get the musical instruments out?

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You don't really know what to do with them.

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When you have got them out, you just let the children explore them, which is fine, worth doing, but you just find it ends up being really loud and you don't enjoy it and you wonder whether children actually enjoy it as well.

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So what could you do

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to help yourself?

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So have a focus.

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Don't feel that you've got to have them for your whole of your music time, whether that be, depending on what age you work with, whether it be two to threes

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or whether it be three to fours or four to fives.

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You know, if you're doing a thirty minute session or a ten minute session.

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Whatever you're doing, just have it for small amount of time, so probably five minutes or so

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for one activity.

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Why not try a really simple one, songs the children know well.

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If you've got younger children obviously they're not going to be singing but they'll be listening to you.

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Get them to play along to those songs, but thinking about how they're going to play them.

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So if they're getting too loud, thinking about getting them to play quietly.

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One good example I do with the children is when I want them to think about playing quietly is playing along to the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and I talk about actually singing it so that they're sending a baby to sleep.

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So if they were singing it and they're playing those instruments, say you want to play it nice and nice and quietly.

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Really simple, really effective.

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That's it.

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If you want to learn more about what I can help you with music in the early years take a look at my website which is www.musicintheearlyears.com