making our own shakers...

Last term we made some shakers, filling recycled bottles with colored water ( pouring the water and using the ever-popular eye droppers for another fine motor skills session) and decorating them with streamers etc. We have just got a new musical instrument – a thunder tube – it makes fantastic reverberating rolling thundery sounds…..so we had to use it today. We sang the old favourite, “I hear thunder” –

Aiden makes thunder

Everyone had had a turn at creating a thunder sound, but Aiden played it for us in the song while we sang along and shook our water shakers…

We have discovered that water shakers are excellent because they are not really loud, so we could hear the thunder sounds, and our singing really clearly with the shakers just in the background. (They can shake them as vigorously as they like…they help us to get a good strong sense of beat.)

water shaker music