Sing and sign at Poole Museum
Poole Museum has launched a baby and toddler group based around singing well known nursery rhymes and songs and learning simple baby sign language.
The Museum, Music and Mime group meet every Friday morning between 10.30-11.30am in the Museum’s learning suite. The drop-in sessions are themed, with the children and their parents or carers singing songs related to those themes. Each week the session begins with Museum staff showing the babies and toddlers a different museum artefact related to the theme and learning signs to describe the object including the name, size, or colour of the object. The themes will include Poole habitats, people at play and people at home.
The sessions are helping to bring new visitors into the Museum and introducing Poole's wonderful history to even our youngest residents through simple songs and descriptive language. The sessions are relaxed and informal. The children and their parents and carers are able to learn some simple signs from a modified form of sign language designed to help very young children to communicate. Often babies are able to learn and use signs before they are able to speak and so this helps them to communicate from an earlier age.
Cllr Xena Dion, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for , Borough of Poole, said: "We are delighted to offer these exciting sessions for babies and toddlers. Music plays a pivotal part in a child’s development and these stimulating and enjoyable sessions for both child and parent can help build vital confidence, social and communication skills whilst being in a fun, relaxed and friendly environment."
The Museum, Music and Mime sessions are open to any children and their carers between the ages of 0-3 years old. The sessions run every Friday between 10.30-11.30am and cost £2 per child, with siblings under four months going free. Booking is not essential, but spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please call 01202 262600 for more information.