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Kari’s Baby Beats
November 7, 2025 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am
Join us for Kari’s Baby Beats by Heart of the Child Music Education from 9:30-10:15 am on Friday mornings at The Floyd Country Store.
A special time for babies and their caregivers, this is an intimate class with lots of opportunity for bonding. It focuses on the amazing capacity of these young ones for developing their innate musical intelligence. By watching, listening, and sensing, the babies learn to feel steady beat and discern correct pitches. Before anyone expects, they are copying these same musical qualities with their own bodies and voices. Most people don’t know that this type of loving and supportive early musical culture gives children the skills they need to play in a symphony orchestra or a band when they are older, whether it is an old-time, swing, or rock band they choose. This early musical and social stimulation also supports healthy neurological development that is the foundation for all other types of growth and learning.
The class consists of lap bouncing games, massage rhymes, drum songs, shaker eggs, and rhythm instrument playtime. Circle dances and other movement songs allow babies to be held (or toddle!) while also being in the middle of the music. No music skill needed on part of the adults. Kari will model everything you need to know, and she will keep it fun and relaxed. It’s a nice way to meet other parents, too, and chase away the “only adult in the room” doldrums.
These FUN and developmentally appropriate classes are produced by Kari Kovick and Heart of the Child Music Education and foster a love of music while building foundational musical skills, safe connection, secure attachment, and healthy community.
Baby Beats is aimed toward children under the age of 2. Older children are encouraged to attend Joy Jammers. If you have any questions, or wish to explore the best class for you and your child / children, please contact us! We’re happy to discuss this with you and find the best class for you and your child / children.
Dates are subject to cancellation or change pending teacher availability, inclement weather, illness, etc. Individual classes are $15 per child for drop in. Five-class passes are available for $60, or 10 for $120 (or $12 per class). Additional siblings are half price.
Contact us to purchase a prepaid pass, book a session using a prepaid pass, or to enroll/register multiple siblings. You can call our Office Manager / Administrative Assistant Leigh McKagen at 540-745-2110 or email her at leigh@handmademusicschool.org.
To enroll your child in a single session, click on the registration link below!
About Heart of the Child Music Education
Since its beginning in the year 2000, Heart of the Child Music Education has been offering joyful, interactive group musical experiences to children and their caregivers in its hometown of Floyd. The FUN and developmentally appropriate classes foster a love of music while building foundational musical skills, safe connection, secure attachment, and healthy community.
Kari’s welcoming attitude helps adults and children build a sense of community while they gather on the rug for fingerplays and lap bouncing games, play with rhythm instruments, jump, crawl, and swing, wave scarves to choreographed dances, and freeform jam with a menagerie of instruments. It feels so good to be in class, children don’t even notice that they are building the foundational skills for making music together the rest of their lives.
HCME has been literally raising Floyd County children with its Social and Emotional Learning based music program since it began. It still serves Floyd’s youngest members (birth to 5 years old) while watching its first students graduate from high school. One high school senior recently told Kari, “I don’t remember much about preschool, but I remember your music!”
Heart of the Child Music students consistently pursue music creation as they get older, fed by the love of music that HCME nurtures in them in their early years. They go on to participate in programs such as the Floyd JAMs Program and Music Lab Floyd, pursue private lessons, and form their own bands.
Enroll below for single sessions — For info email us! info@handmademusicschool.org