Educational children’s songs and videos that transform the learning experience.
Our ELT songs and videos captivate young audiences and elevate learning.
Our learning-first songs
Make learning fun
Our learning-first children’s songs make learning fun and engaging, enhancing intrinsic motivation and creating a positive learning environment.
Educational and ELT children’s songs provide an opportunity for young learners to sing, dance, move, relax and engage in a uniquely kinesthetic and auditory manner – both inside and outside the classroom.
Engage young audiences
Songs in child-centred environments offer an opportunity to do more than simply entertain. While fun is important, we believe music can also help young people understand themselves and the world around them.
The songs people connect with most strongly are rooted in emotion, humour, storytelling, or shared experience. Children respond to that range too.
Support social and emotional development
Songs can help nurture children’s empathy, curiosity and tolerance. They can create moments of joy and self-expression but they can also be emotional, reflective or even challenging in the right way.
The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio has proposed that music’s ability to influence feelings suggest it may play a wider role in sociocultural organisation. Therefore songs are more than just entertainment, they are potentially a powerful social force.
Our song videos
We offer a range of bespoke song video styles, from character-led animations to high-energy ‘edutainment’ dance videos.
We weave interactivity into each project and collaborate closely with teams to develop integrated creative briefs where songwriting, music production, and video concepts are shaped together from the outset.
This joined-up approach ensures every element works in harmony to deliver the strongest possible creative and educational impact.
We write and produce songs that engage young learners.
Why Creative Listening?
Our team
Our team have backgrounds in academia, education, musicology and publishing.
Our experience
We’ve written thousands of educational children’s songs across language learning, general education and commercial sectors.
Our energy, vision and enthusiasm
We create children’s songs that captivate your audience and help you land your learning goals.
Our book
More Than Words: Songs for the Language Classroom
Co-authored by our lead songwriters, Tom Parkinson and Luke Vyner, More Than Words explores the phenomenon of ELT songs from their insider perspective as songwriters. It considers the relationship between music and lyrics in songs, what this means for using songs in the language classroom, the historical developments through which ELT songs emerged, and the contexts in which they are written, listened to, and made.
Published by Cambridge University Press.
We believe that children deserve songs crafted by humans.
Case study
British Council
Robot songs
Creative strategy | songwriting | illustration | animation | social
A global campaign of songs and animations focusing on wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability.
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