Music competencies should be nurtured from an early age since they contribute to child development. Music education is as important in kindergarten as it is in a child’s home. Musical activities have a positive effect on the cognitive, psycho-motor and social-emotional development of children, therefore it is necessary to expose children to music and encourage them to engage in musical activities in everyday life. What will the music incentives for the child's musical activity be like, depends on the child’s environment which consists of the family and the preschool institution. Parents are the most important people in the upbringing of a child, so it is their responsibility to provide their child with the conditions for proper development and to carry out various activities with them, including musical activities. The aim of this paper is to enlighten the role of parents in the music development of their children in early childhood and preschool age, as well as to determine whether parents perform musical activities with children at home, what kind of musical activities these are, and how often they are conducted. The intention is to contribute to the development of awareness of the importance of music education of children in early childhood and preschool age. In order to find out which musical activities are used to encourage their children to be musically active, and to see how often they engage in such activities, a survey was conducted among parents in ‘’Zeko’’ Kindergarten in Slatina (N = 90). The results of the survey showed that parents often engage in basic musical activities such as singing and listening to music with their children, while musical activities such as playing an instrument are the least performed, mostly because parents have no music education and do not play any musical instrument. It was also shown that the frequency of musical activities of children in the family circle decreases with age, and that musical activities are carried out with boys a little more often than with girls.