As part of the Government's investment in singing, Youth Music has been awarded funds to develop a pack to get pre-schoolers singing at home with their parents. The pack will be aimed at children aged between two and four and their parents, will contain a fully illustrated book, a selection of small, hand-held instruments, a CD of high-quality, fully orchestrated original music and suggestions to get parents doing some very simple musical activities with their children at home.

Currently, a creative team is working together to produce five prototypes of the pack which will be tested with groups of parents and some early years practtioners. The creative team was chosen through an open tendering process, which reslted in Youth Music choosing celebrated children's book author Miriam Moss to write the book, Sian Rance from D.R. ink to illustrate and design the book and composer Malcolm Bruce to create all the original music for the pack.

Once the prototype has been approved by Youth Music and the Government, 100,000 resource packs will be produced and distributed througout England. Youth Music hopes that in the future, through further sponsorship, this pack will become a universal entitlement to all children in the UK.

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For more information about Youth Music's Early Years work, please check out www.bongoclub.org.uk