If your little one enjoyed our time together learning about sounds, try this fun craft activity!

Investigate ways to create different pitch, tones, and sounds by creating your own glass bottle water xylophone.

Materials needed:Glass bottles or mason jars of the same size and volume, water, something to hit the bottles, and optional food coloring.

Pop! Splat! Drop! and Build! Your child can use sight and sound to explore the properties of different materials in this set of eight games from The Cat in the Hat.

Explore the sounds and pitch of different instruments in this musical game from The Cat in the Hat. Put the sounds together to create a rhythmic beat.

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