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Music for Little Ones  is the name of our effort to bring more musical education and opportunity to Rabun County!  Our first goal has been to raise $1,000 to bring Kindermusik to the Nichols Center - right here in Clayton!  We made it half way to that goal, so far, and have ordered materials.  Teacher training for that begins next week!  Ideally,  we will train a second teacher by the end of this year!  Having two teachers would make it possible to really get into the school, daycares, senior centers, and neighboring counties!!

  We plan to first offer classes  for preschool age children and their parents or caregivers.  These fast paced fun music and movement classes would occur twice a week.  A morning and afternoon class would be offered and one saturday a month!  The average cost per month to attend all classes would be $60 but parents can choose to pay per class instead($10 per class)!  We hope to use Music for Little Ones donations to assist parents who cannot afford the class and offer full scholarships based on need as well!  

 We strongly believe that bringing music back into our homes, families, and community will help create a fun, educational atmosphere and bring us all closer together!  Singing, clapping, and moving all at once can really boost young children's development and confidence.  For parents, singing silly songs can be a positive way to interact with those sometimes tough preschoolers!  These silly songs and dances can also help foster and overall love and appreciation of music and the arts and just may lead to interest in further musical education.

  In the future we hope to offer and assist with musical lessons, dancing, and kids performance groups.  We also hope to bring family and kid oriented musical acts to Rabun County!  Music for Little Ones also hopes to extend the classes to include special needs and senior citizens!  

  With some luck and a little money we truly believe that Music for Little Ones can bring opportunities to Rabun County for our children and ourselves!  

For more information please contact gretchenechols@gmail.com
or  find me on facebook Gretchen Echols there too!

Why a Kid's Music Class??

Because we have lost our music.  Music that comes from us in our homes, families, and with our friends.  Silly totally unprofessional, social music.  Singing, clapping, and dancing together helps bring us all closer and gives us a way to communicate from the oldest senior to the youngest babies!  This class wold be a way to bring music back into our in-person lives and not just on our phones or the radio.  Music can teach us, comfort us, and make us laugh.  Giving our kids and ourselves this tool to help deal with chores or bedtime, or help in making new friends would end up benefiting us, as much as them.  As would getting together!  Parents in our community do not spend much time together because of work and family demands - a class with kids and parents gives us all a chance - to stretch our social muscles - which is MUCH easier with silly music and clapping to grease the social wheels!

Please keep your questions coming! I totally understand wanting to know EXACTLY
 what you are giving to and WHY!

The donation links were down for a few days but they are back up and you can always email me at gretchenechols@gmail.com or facebook me

Thank you again!

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We added Perks to our Indiegogo site!

We're counting down to the last few weeks of our Indiegogo campaign!  We've made a little more than 50% of our goal through all of our donation channels.  Toddler Ian and I have been pounding the pavement, getting sponsorships and trying to let our local community know what we're trying to accomplish, and to invite them to participate.

We've added Perks to our Indiegogo donation site.  All donations include the Perk of having your name on a list that will be displayed in our classroom!  We'll post photos of the list, so you can see your name!

For a $25 or more donation, we'll also display your Family friendly music oriented website or blog for three months, and mention you on our Facebook page and send out a Tweet!

That's right! We're on Twitter!  Our Twitter account is: @Mtnkindermusik.  Follow us there for updates and news.

It's been crazy busy, and that's very good for us. We are so close to being able to make the ongoing financial commitment to Kindermusik and to buy materials and supplies for our classes!  Thanks to everyone who has donated dollars, time, and materials!

Please help us tip the scale and make Kindermusik classes for the little ones a reality!

You can also make a donation directly via paypal below:

Carpet for our Class!

Today we got the carpet donated for our Music for Little One's campaign!!

Thank you so much Rabun Flooring

This is a big huge step!

We are getting so close to finishing up this phase of our campaign and getting started with teacher training!

It is soooo close - every donation means so much!  Please click below to make a paypal donation or email about other ways you can help gretchenechols@gmail.com

Finally, to answer a question I have been getting.  All of our receipts, paperwork, and statements will be available here on our blog!  To date no Music for Little One's money has been spent - We are holding steady all donations total from paypal and indiegogo - counting fees removed from paypal for processing - we have $462.34 to date. 

New Sponsors!

Okay so great news we have TWO official sponsors now!

I am so excited about who they are because in both cases their businesses are small, local, and extremely oriented towards their families!

PC-MEd is amazing -- i have taken uhhmm 2 laptops now to kyle because the kids exploded them and he returned them better than new!

Tosha's business Everything Cute and Beautiful, is done from home where she takes care of FOUR KIDS!  Ask her how she keeps the curly ribbons so curly!

Please keep sharing our links - tell me people about our great sponsors - send me ideas for sponsors and if you can donate - a dollar goes a long way towards getting our project going!

also on indiegogo!