About

Kindermusik The Program

Powerful learning through musical play. Educational activity your kids will love! History: In the late 60’s, musician and educator, Dan Pratt, discovered a successful music program in Germany that empowered young children to express themselves creatively, while hitting major developmental milestones. He saw families coming back to it again and again, and knew his calling was to build on what he learned and share it around the world. In 1978, he introduced the first Kindermusik class, and the rest is musical history.

What are Kindermusik music classes like?
Music studios around the world sprinkle in their own magic into every class, but you can count on a few key ingredients that make a Kindermusik experience stand out.

Hello and Goodbye Rituals
Welcoming your little one by name helps promote self-confidence and foster positive social interactions.

Singing, movement, dancing, and instrument play
You’ll experience exciting themes with engaging songs, stories, movement prompts, and instruments to spark the imagination.

After-class family support
Educators explain what your child is learning in real time, and equip you with at-home music and ideas to continue the experience and reinforce the joy in the car, yard, at home, or wherever you are.

Kindermusik with Kathy & Friends

Make musical memories. Grow lifelong learners.

Kathy: ‘For me, my life has always been about young children - letting them be creative and expressive!
I’ve created a music program where families and the community can gather together to Connect and Celebrate Childhood. Let’s prolong these precious early years for a little bit longer, and nurture the most important part of your child’s life. All of who we are goes back to our early childhood years - why rush, let's cherish it.’ 

Kindermusik with Kathy & Friends program to honors the whole, creative child and provides a musical place for them to be expressive, creative, free and JOY-ful. Their heart mind body and spirit are nurtured through musical experiences... with their family right there, in it and beside them observing, hugging, smiling, laughing and cheering them along. A place for parents to unplug, relax, smile, bond and say (sing): "I SEE you... I HEAR you… I LOVE you” through the songs, dances and the joys of music and movement.

From cuddles n lullabies in Babies classes, to moving freely with Toddlers, to singing, storytelling and drumming with Preschoolers, to playing a large variety instruments, music theory concepts and dancing with Big Kid Classes, it’s always for the child, with the child and about the child at Kindermusik with Kathy & Friends.

Owner Kathy Hayden

My passion is teaching creatively with music, dance, stories and play - and MOSTLY, loving children and connecting families. -Kathy

My life was surrounded by music, art, dance and expression in my family! I was a lively active creative child who could not sit down or be structured for too long…. hence, I’ve created Kindermusik with Kathy & Friends to be the perfect magical place for ALL children, and not one style of learning - for the free spirited child, for the quiet, observant child, and for the structured, focused child- each child enjoying at their own pace and way

I first brought Kindermusik to the Santa Barbara County in 1997 (over 27 years) and was one of the first music and movement programs offered to families in the SB area! I am honored that Kindermusik with Kathy & Friends has been named one of the top Kindermusik Programs Internationally and I have been awarded ‘Kindermusik Maestro Educator’ since 2001.

EDUCATION

BA in Liberal Studies/Psychology, and a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credentials for Elementary ages in 1985. I have directed daycares, taught preschool, kindergarten and first grade in England and California, owned three Gymboree Play Gyms, have extensive training in sensory-motor integration- play therapy for infants and toddlers, attend Orff-Schuelwerk musical trainings and workshops., and have trained with renowned music and movement USA specialist, Phyllis Weikert.

KATHY IN INDIA

I have been blessed to travel, teach and train teachers for various elementary and preschools in Indore, India. My passion is to bring music, art and love to all children in the world, one child at a time. This has become my passion- an outreach music program where I travel to India(and other countries), co-lead a Women’s Travel Trips, volunteer and love on children in the Himalaya Mountains, and teach at music workshops for schools in Indore, India - Bringing music, English, JOY and LOVE to many children!