Peek-a-Boo Family Music

Heads up, families—we’re going to be a vendor & official partner at the Kiddie Academy of Briarcliff Manor Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening this Sunday! 🎀 Stop by our table to sing, dance, and find out what Peek-a-Boo Family Music is all about. We’d love to meet you!

📍 325 South Highland Ave
🗓️ Sunday, June 7th at 1 PM

As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, here’s a gentle reminder that music can be more than something cute in the background.

For toddlers, singing, dancing, rhythm, and musical play can support emotional expression, language, confidence, social connection, and the very important art of getting big feelings out through tiny moving bodies.

For parents and caregivers, music can also become a shared reset button: a way to connect, co-regulate, laugh, breathe, and be present together, even on the days when everyone is running on crumbs and mystery backpack snacks.

Pictured above, our little musicians are finding creative ways to use drumsticks, from turning them into antlers, to teeth, to whatever else their imaginations decide next. That kind of playful pretend work is part of the magic. It helps children build creativity, flexible thinking, emotional expression, and confidence while learning through movement and music.

At Peek-a-Boo Family Music, we love seeing how Music Together® classes create space for joy, bonding, imagination, rhythm, and connection between children and the grown-ups who love them.

Photo taken during Reanna’s class in Croton. 🎶

In motion with Reanna in Croton. 🎶

Fun fact: the roots of toddler music and movement classes go way back to the 1800s.

In 1837, German educator Friedrich Froebel opened one of the first kindergartens, built around the idea that young children learn through play, movement, nature, songs, stories, and hands-on discovery.

A few years later, in 1844, he published Mother-Play and Nursery Songs, which included songs, rhymes, finger plays, and movement games for families to share with little ones.

So when children are clapping, bouncing, pretending, singing, and moving through class, they are part of a very old and beautiful tradition:

learning through the whole body. 🎵

Music Together® with Peekaboo Music in Croton.