By Ruth Williams


If your kids are on summer break, and you're looking for a fun and rewarding activity for them to engage in, a drumming workshop might be the right option for your family. This activity is very well known in the UK schools and it can be a great pleasure for children no matter how old they are.

An Explanation of Drumming Workshops

Classes or programs using drumming workshops teach children how to do a specific style of drumming, often indigenous drumming. Your child may learn about Djembe drumming from Africa. Specialized instructional organizations and music schools offer workshops to schools and youth groups throughout the UK. Next are several benefits that drumming workshops have as a children's activity in the summertime.

Creative and Fun

Drumming brings out the creativity in children, and is a lot of fun! It is something that can provide great enjoyment. This will make summer that more interesting for them. Children seem to have an inborn sense of natural rhythm, so the thought of playing a drum is highly attractive to them. They will delight in the excitement of joining in by using their hands to bang on a traditional drum-set, and they are sure to be creatively inspired. They may, for instance, begin composing their own drum beats and making up their own songs to go with the drumming they are doing.

This is good for coordination and provides exercise too

Drumming may help young people improve their coordination and it is generally good exercise. It takes hand eye coordination as well as muscular control and movement. It can be beneficial and fun to get children outside when it's summer, and being a parent you are sure to understand this. You don't want them to sit around all day watching television or playing video games. On various levels, drumming is a very healthy activity. A lot of drumming workshops are held outdoors.

Cultural Learning

Learning native drumming gives children a cultural experience based on the place that the drums came from and the drumming styles originated. Therefore, this creates an experience which is both diversification based and educational which enhances the child's cultural and educational development. It will introduce children to new cultures, with their unique practices and customs. Music is a common thread that binds people of many different backgrounds together, so a drumming workshop is a great way to demonstrate both cultural diversity and an underlying continuity.

Allows for Social Interaction

Drumming workshops are a place where children can interact with new people, making friends while having fun. Normally, people tend to sit in a circular setting and drum along together. They are thus able to meet both other children and adults doing the drumming and encounter people they have not known before. They will get to expand their horizons by meeting new people.

Home Continuance

Your child's drumming fun and education can continue after the workshop is over by simply buying a drum that is taught in the workshop. Perhaps enrolling in a subsequent workshop to demonstrate what they have learned, they can practice drumming on their own and improve on it. When it's time to go back to school, they can continue drumming in their spare time.




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