Sound Matching

This fun activity is inspired by the Montessori materials, sound cylinders. Sound cylinders are meant to exercise a child's auditory sense, which is important in music.

What you will need:

• 4, 6 or 8 containers that can close

• Different materials to place inside the containers e.g. uncooked rice, bells, beads, gravel, paper clips etc

How the activity works:

• Create container ‘pairs’ which have the same material inside

• For young children you can also colour match the pairs

• Let children find the pairs by shaking the containers and listening which sound the same