We went for a walk with our sound sticks today. It was a beautiful clear morning and the farm seemed to just be asking us to make some noise! And we were more than willing to oblige! So we grabbed our sound sticks and headed out to see what sounds we could find around the farm.
We started with our wooded fence. Just banging along it in different places. I tried to get Aston to hold onto the sticks himself so he could feel the beat as we tapped along . . . this came eventually.
What was really cool about this activity was that there was just sooo many different sounds to explore. Standing in one place and only moving our sound sticks to a different piece of wood, or to a tree we could discover a different sound.
We tapped the aluminum gate, the metal fencing, and the wooden fence posts. We tapped the rocks, the trees, the boat, the garage door, the wooden jetty, the gravel, the grass (which evidently didn't make much noise!) But that was just as valuable to see which objects made loud noises and which made very little noise. Some vibrated, others were dense in sound, and Ashton responded differently to each sound as we found them.
As we tapped all of the different objects we also tried to explore different tempos and beats. We tapped fast and slow. We tapped loudly and quietly. It was lots of fun and made our simple walk very eventful! I think we will do that again!
If you want to watch a bit of our Sound Sticks Adventure follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx_Fa2UUzEU
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