 This is an easy activity to do, especially I do this at the beginning of the year. Actually throughout the year, but especially at the beginning, because it's pretty low-key, but it works on several different musical things. One is timbre. I'm just using sticks. Of course, these are ready-made sticks. You could just use sticks that you find on the ground, but this uses a... Timbre is the different sounds you get from an instrument. It's what makes a trumpet sound different than a flute. For sticks, you've got a rubbing sound and different types of taps. Also volume, because there's a soft component and a loud component. It just goes like this. Two little sausages frying in a pan. One goes pop, and the other goes bam. So I'll do that several times. I don't know, four or five times. The kids will usually just join me on their own as I get it. Sometimes they leave it on the floor on their hand. Be careful. Don't let them hit their fingers, because they'll be crying after that. Make sure they're out here on the ends of the sticks. It's an easy way to get kids playing without really a steady beat or anything, but you still get soft, loud, and the different sounds from the sticks. And you get a way to get them involved.