The Great Kazoo

Saturday after nap saw the girls and I home alone while Daddy got a massage and we developed yet another round of colds.  What better time to break out another unit of MGT to add some fun to a winter afternoon.

Circle time ended up being our main activity again today.  Both girls got really into the theme poster and using the magnifying glasses to search for the pictures and others that started with the same sound.  We spent a lot of time exploring it.

As I've said before, the girls love Little Einsteins on Netflix so Miss M has a pretty good vocabulary of musical instruments but it was fun to introduce a few more from the woodwind categories.  She opted not to play the instrument memory game but liked looking through the pictures to see which ones she already knew.

We made the kazoos, which has provided great fun.  I wasn't up to watching Littlest with an eagle eye to make sure she didn't use the wall as her canvas with markers so we opted to decorate our tubes with stickers from JoAnn's.  Before they could be decorated, however, they were first used as telescopes and binoculars.  I think it is hardwired into our DNA to try and look through any small round thing we come across.  I used a regular punch to make the hole and simply cut away a bit of the film to make sure it stayed clear.  It took me a minute to realize I needed to actually vocalize into the tube to make it hum (unlike a regular kazoo, where you just blow) but once I did, the girls got very excited and wanted to do it on their own for the next half hour.