Music for Wellbeing
WELLBEING FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS THROUGH MUSIC
Music can calm us, can lift our mood when we’re feeling down, can help us celebrate and feel good, can give us pause for reflection, triggering memories and experiences that define our lives.
Tom Kiehl, UK Music Acting CEO
Search by composer, or by composition type:
https://classicalmusiconly.com/list/100-greatest-classical-music-works-f164de5b
Relaxing or mood music
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/mood/relaxing/music-relaxation/
Music to help you focus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3bJmm2cGDwXvlV9SP1NgBKr/music-to-help-you focus
Modern classical music to focus the mind
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07l65c6
Human beings relate to pattern – our instinct is to make sense of things around us by organising them, by identifying and understanding patterns. https://www.bestcoloringpagesforkids.com/pattern-coloring-pages.
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Some useful websites to learn more about music for wellbeing:
https://www.ukmusic.org/advice/music-activities-for-wellbeing/
Create a playlist, Listening Challenges, Improve your skills
https://www.playlistforlife.org.uk/#
Music for every mood/frame of mind you are in.
https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/music-for-wellbeing/calm-to-relaxed-playlists/
Birmingham Royal Ballet offer ballet themed activities. E.g: finger puppets that can be coloured in. Children at Manor Field worked in pairs on this – one providing music, the other moving puppets to music.
https://www.brb.org.uk/families/nutcracker-activity-sheets
Chrome Music Lab. The Globe have used this a lot during lockdown and found it very engaging for the children. For example, working on the baseline of reggae music. Gives an immediate sense of making something musical