Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow?
Ask kids: Why do we even have ears? Ears are the bodies tools for collecting sounds. Take a couple of minutes in your busy day to close your eyes with your child and just listen. Can you guess what sounds you are hearing? Instead of reading a story, just tell one or listen to some music.
Here is a quick and amazing science experiment that piggy-backs with setting the table or doing dishes. Using a string about as long as your arm, tie the middle around a metal spoon, leaving two long ends. Now, wrap a couple twists of the string around the index finger of each hand. Put your fingers in your ears and let the spoon dangle down. Lean over and let the spoon tap the edge of a table or counter. What did it sound like? (Works best if the string is right at the end of the fingers and it should sound like a big clanging bell.) Wasn’t that astonishing? What sounds do you like to hear? What don’t you like to hear?