Nursery World - Sounds of the sea

Liven up your music and movement sessions and enhance your sea project with a range of instruments that simulate sea sounds. Sea boxes

Sea boxes

* Sea boxes produce various sounds, from the gentle lapping of water to waves crashing and surf breaking over a pebble beach. Fill large boxes and tins with sand or gravel, seal the lids and any other holes, decorate them, and make wide, gentle, circular movements.

Rainsticks

* Check out the Rainstick project kit (Hope, 21.95), which has enough materials to make 12 sticks. Or make your own - pierce a strong cardboard tube randomly with split pins, fill with gravel, wrap with strong plastic and paint.

Drums

* Slowly 'rolling' on a drum makes an excellent wave sound. The ocean drum by Hope (34.95/39.95, tel: 08702 433 400) has a black base painted with fish and is filled with steel shot for a range of sounds.

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