Ask students to brainstorm a list of different ways to simulate the sounds of nature using objects or their own voices. Suggest that students simulate background noises of the estuary, including grasses blowing in the wind, a frog plopping into a pond, a seed pod rattling in the wind, a branch falling, or an owl hooting. Students may want to have several tape recorders available to tape and play back their particular sound. The Basin Blues , have students put natural rhythmic sounds together with the words.
Produce sounds from sticks, seed pods, gourds, grasses or branches of tree leaves, etc.