For grown-ups
Sound cylinders
What your child practices
Listening for loud and soft, fine and coarse: the cylinders are closed and look the same, so only the sound tells them apart. Something fine runs about in some, something knocks in others. Three pairs to begin with, then six.
How to use it together
Show it once: press a cylinder with a red lid and listen, press one with a blue lid and listen, then carry the one that sounds the same to the empty place below, slowly and without talking. One that is not the partner sounds 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, softest first. The sound needs to be 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.