For grown-ups
Bells
What your child practices
Listening for high and low: the bells all look the same, so only the sound tells one from another. Three far apart to begin with, then five, then all eight notes of a scale.
How to use it together
Show it once: press a bell on the tray and listen, press a bell on the floor and listen, then carry the one that sounds the same to the empty place below, slowly and without talking. A bell that is not the partner rings next to the other, rocks, tips off and goes back; there is no need to point it out. When the tray is full it plays itself once. The bells need the sound on, so turn it up first. The green arrow mixes them up to start again.
These are Montessori-style activities. Handeware Kids is not affiliated with or approved by any Montessori organization.