Make your own string phone

What you need

• Plastic/foam disposable cups String/rope
• Optional: you can paint or decorate the cups too

Benefits

Communication and language, vocabulary, improves and develops listening and attention skills.

The experience

• Cut a long piece of string - you can experiment with different lengths but perhaps 3 metres is a good place to start.
• Poke a small hole in the bottom of each cup.
• Thread the string through each cup and tie knots at each end to stop it pulling through the cup.
• Move into position with you and a friend holding the cups at a distance that makes the string tight (making sure the string isn't touching anything else).
• One person talks into the cup while the other puts the cup to their ear and listens, can you hear each other?