Orla's Water Music!

Water and music are two of Orla's favourite things, so this seemed like a perfect activity to try. Unfortunately, my timing was a bit off... She had a restless night last night, and even after a long nap this afternoon, she wasn't at her best. However, she was happy to let me show her what to do...


We have a shelf full of empty jam jars, saved for Giles's rather good onion marmalade and other preserves; so in between batches, we can make use of the jars. We started by hitting the empty jars with a chopstick to hear the sounds they made, before adding different levels of water and hitting them again, to hear how the sound had changed. When all of the jars had different levels of water in them, we tried running the chopstick back and forth along the row, and then tried hitting various jars in different orders to play 'tunes'. Orla had a try, but after five minutes or so, laid down her chopstick and picked up the jars to drink the water out of them instead. I think I'll try this again in a couple of weeks when she's not as tired!