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New idea for super easy-to-make sand blocks!

Cut “noodles” (long plastic water/pool toys) into 3” lengths, and then cut each piece in half lengthwise. You’ll have two half round pieces. An electric knife works great, and gives you a nice clean cut. If you use a saw or foam knife, you will have little foam pieces that will eventually be sanded off with use.

Advantages: these are colorful, inexpensive and quick to make, and unlike wooden sand blocks, pleasantly quiet when children inevitably clap them together!

Variation on Story song activity “See the Sounds”. Instead of holding up picture cut from magazines, make enlargements of photos of your children engaged in different activities, (quiet and loud).

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