Rock and Roll with SOUNDS!!!!!!!

     OK so if you have ears that hurt with the sound of banging pots and pans or crashing lid cymbal's then just maybe you shouldn't keep reading! 
     But let me assure the rest of YOU this will be one day that the children will never forget about.  SOUND.....................


     First take a stroll outside and have them listen to the sounds around them.Sounds like, vehicles or sounds from the sky.  What about the sounds of  music.  Talk about them.  Then let them make SOUNDS.  All kinds of sounds with different items.

     I enjoy using spoons and tapping pots and pans.  Or filling things with water for different sounds.  Even planning ahead and cutting pipe at different lenghts makes some awesome chimes.  Then add some scraping down a cheese grater.  For added fun turn on a great song with a beat and let them see if they can figure out the beat.  They can do it even at a young age.

     Then when its time to head in it will be snack time and hopefully you have made some delicious homemade Grandma Cookies or for fun you could make some rice krispie treats in the shape of a guitar or note and let them add some licorice ropes for the strings and M&M's for the tuner screws. 

     Then when its that tough time to have to head home, which I know they wont want to lol.  You can help them make a rain stick.  Get wrapping paper tubes and push large and small nails through the sides, not to many.  Then cover the outside of the tube with shelf paper that is sticky.  You will have to do the nails for the little ones first, but all ages can add the beans at the last and put the lid on.  Then tape it shut really really good on both ends and let them listen to the sound of rain.  They can even decorate the outside of the shelf paper.

     What a great day for exploring the sense of hearing.  What a great day for another fun and exciting adventure, and the best part is..........
You can find it all in Grandma's Attic, where the fun never stops and  our imaginations run wild.  Be sure and take some Grandma Cookies along, for when you get the munchies!!!!!!