Music Making for Early Years - Food and Lunar New Year - Hucknall Library - Adult Learning

Hucknall Library, Hucknall

Date	13 January - 10 February 2026
Sessions	Tuesdays: 10:30am - 11:30am
No. sessions	5
Venue	Hucknall Library, Hucknall View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 16
Cost	FREE - £20

About this course

Join our fun family learning course aimed at families with babies and children under the age of 4. This practical course will give ideas about how to support your child with music. Music-making provides an engaging and enjoyable activity for everyone and is led by our friendly and experienced Primary Music Specialist and Jolly Music teacher.

There’s a reason why Nursery Rhymes have been around for centuries because they are brilliant for boosting language development, counting and vocabulary We will start with a Lunar New Year theme for the first three weeks of the course followed by our Food theme. We’ll explore Chinese instruments and take part in a simple dragon dance too. All the EYMM course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals and the 2020 Development Matters Guidelines.

What will be covered on the course? Explore Lunar New Year songs and instruments with your little one. Build your own musical confidence in pulse and rhythm. You’ll learn how to support your child by reading and playing simple musical rhythms. Use key signs in songs to help support your child’s language development.

What you will need to bring to the course:

1) Blanket to sit on.

2) Drink and snack.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.