Age: 5-7 Years

This activity enables children to experience a living, breathing rainforest, through the sensory window of sound.

Imagine you’re in the rainforest and it's night time, feel the hammock rocking,  your mosquito net around you.  What can you hear?

Soundscape Activities

Either:
Ask Children to lie on the floor and shut their eyes (preferably in a darkened room) Ask them to think of a noise that they might hear in the jungle at night.  Build up a soundscape using their voices/ drumming their bodies raising the volume then bringing it down to silence again.  N.B.  need clear signal for start/stop/louder/softer.  Or children start their noise only when tapped on the shoulder – sound gradually builds to crescendo.  Second tap means children go silent so sound gradually dies away.

Or:
Sit in circle – build up rainstorm.  Each person copies the actions of the person to their right and sound moves around circle.  Start with rubbing hands together, clicking fingers, clapping, stamping, clapping, clicking, rubbing, silence.