Amy Haywood - colorado - Owner/Director/instructor

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Amy Haywood is a two time Parent Choice Award Winner for children's music and story recordings, and has been educating through music for thirty years. She is the founder of Music Kids, a preschool music program, (formerly Musicare), trains music teachers, offers Amy’s Music Zoom classes and writes children’s songs and stories. In the summer she runs a children's music camp: Camp Oonie Koonie Cha. Amy’s Music on Zoom aims to educate kids thru music while having a hand-clapping, toe tapping, giggling, good time.

Amy grew up in Viet Nam, Taiwan and Singapore where she developed a love for children, service and song.

Amy Haywood has been an early childhood music educator, song and storyteller for thirty-two years in public and private elementary schools, Montessori schools and childcare centers. She stimulates children’s imaginations by embellishing her music, dance and storytelling with puppets, scarves and unusual instruments. Amy and Claire Valine (Music Kids) have produced five CDs for young children. Two have won Parents' Choice Highly Recommended Awards.  Before Claire moved to Memphis and Amy to Boulder, they performed regularly around the Piedmont in North Carolina.

In North Carolina Amy worked part time for the state Smart Start Program conducting workshops for teachers, and going into centers to instruct teachers in their own classrooms on ways to use music to teach science, math, and other subjects. Amy and Claire, were invited to be the keynote speakers for the South Carolina First Steps Early Childhood Conference.  She took over when Musicare ended during Covid and initiated Music Kids. When Amy came to Colorado, she started Camp OKC. Camp Oonie Koonie Cha is a hugely popular music camp started by five Musicare teachers in Winston-Salem. Last year there were one hundred kids signed up for Camp OKC here in Boulder. One parent said, 

“WE are still singing and dancing to the son collection from last summers camp. As a family, we are so excited about attending again this summer that we even have planned our family vacation so that we can be there. Last year’s camp program enriched the musical life of our oldest son and our entire family tremendously!" – The Fossom Family, Boulder CO.