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Sound Boxes

What to do:

  1. Ask children to place a small item into a box and close the box tightly so the lid won’t come off.
  2. Have the other children listen to the sounds the item makes as the box is moved around, shaken, or dropped.
  3. Ask other children to guess what the item is.

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