When the days get shorter and the weather doesn't allow long walks and fun hours at the playground, people are often desperately looking for varied and exciting indoor activities for their adolescents. How about perhaps having your own orchestra? If you don't mind the noise, the children will be able to warm up to this idea straight away. Children love making music. And if they can do this with homemade musical instruments, then the joy is twice as great. In the following articles you will find great suggestions and simple instructions on how you can make great musical instruments for your children or with them.
Guitar made from empty cardboard
You can make creative and fun musical instruments from a variety of materials. But before you spend money on it, take a look around your home. The storage room often turns out to be a real treasure chest. If you have oneempty shoeboxor find the lid of it, you can transform it into a guitar for your loved one in no time. Let your child decorate the box to their heart's content and wrap several rubber bands around the box. Leave a single elastic band in some places and use two or more in others.
Make musical instruments with toilet paper rolls
Instead of throwing away the empty toilet paper rolls and PET bottles, you can give them a new life as rattle musical instruments. For this awesome DIY recycling project, you'll need to fill a small plastic bottle with tiny objects that will create the rattle. These can be buttons of different colors and sizes, colorful paper clips or ironing beads.
Screw on the bottle cap. Take the empty toilet paper roll and cut it lengthwise. Put them on the neck of the bottle and stick them on. The little ones are welcome to decorate the handle of the rattle with craft paper, washi tape or colorful pens.
Make your own recycled musical instruments – kazoo made from toilet paper rolls
If you and your child have decided to expand the growing collection of musical instruments at home, then you can make a great kazoo with little material and time investment. All you need for this foolproof craft project is an empty toilet paper roll, small piece of wax paper, and a rubber band. Take the piece of wax paper and stretch it over the opening of the cardboard tube. Secure it with a rubber band and make a few holes in the paper with a sharp pencil or wooden skewer. Now your child can put their mouth over the other end of the roll and sing their favorite tune into the kazoo.
Making Indian musical instruments – colorful rainmaker
The rainmaker, also known as the rain stick, was invented by the Aztecs. They believed that the sound of the rain stick could trigger rain. For the rainmaker in rainbow colors you will need the following materials: an empty kitchen paper roll or a cardboard shipping tube with a lid, beans, lentils or rice, as well as colorful patterned paper or washi tape and adhesive tape or double-sided adhesive tape.
If you are using a paper towel roll, close one opening with tape and fill the roll with the beans. Now close the other side and wrap the cardboard roll with adhesive tape. Then wrap the entire rainmaker with wahi tape. Your cool rainmaker is already ready.
If you slowly swing it back and forth, the rainmaker produces a great sound. The melody generated varies depending on the filling material. If you want, you can hammer nails into the cardboard cover. When the filling material falls through the nails, a sound is produced that is reminiscent of raindrops. Children simply love to make noise and the rain stick is perfect for this.
Reuse empty aluminum cans
Making music is not only great fun for children, but also helps develop gross motor skills. The adolescents also learn very quickly what rhythm is. When the little ones make music, dance or sing, their perception, creativity and intelligence are promoted. A great drum set can be created from empty cans. For this DIY project you will need the following materials:
Cans of different sizes
Balloons
Scissors
Rubber bands
Cut the balloons through the middle and place the bottom part of the balloon over the opening. Attach the membrane with a rubber band and, depending on age, let your child drum on it with fingers, hands, pens or chopsticks.
Make a simple drum with cans or leather
Drum made from empty popcorn box and leather
Pan flute made of straws
You can make a colorful pan flute for your child out of straws.
Materials required:
Straws in different colors
Tonkarton
double-sided tape
Lineal
Scissors
Colored pencils for decorating
Cut the first straw to a length of approximately 7 cm. Each additional straw part should be half a centimeter longer. The length of the stalk affects the sound. Cut two rectangles out of the cardboard and stick a piece of double-sided tape on each. Arrange the straws according to size on one rectangle and place the other piece of cardboard on top. You can place the stalks close together on the adhesive tape strips or with a little space between them.
Make a harmonica with ice cream sticks and straws
With this type of harmonica, when you move the straw parts, the pitch also changes. A simple, inexpensive and creative homemade musical instrument! These are the materials required:
two popsicle sticks/wooden mixing spatulas
a wide elastic band
two thin rubber bands
two 2.5 - 3.5 cm pieces from a straw
Scissors
Make musical instruments with crown caps - castanets made of clay cardboard and crown caps or screw caps
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Make musical instruments from Africa – ankle bells for children
