Two different ways to learn about sound!

Using your inquiry and engineering skills, make your own kazoo!

This activity comes with a lesson plan for parents and teachers to extend the learning into your home or classroom.

Materials needed: unwrapped toilet paper roll, a piece of wax paper, and a rubber band or hair tie.

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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