You can make your own musical instruments at home!
Here are a few fun ideas.
- 2 Baby Food Jar Lids (or any 2 lids of the sme size)
- 1/4 - 1/2 inch wide elastic
- Hammer
- Nail
Cut two 4 inch pieces of elastic. With an adult's help, use the hammer and nail to punch a hole in the center of each baby food jar lid. Push both ends of a piece of elastic through each hole. Tie the ends of the elastic into a knot. Know you can slip your finger cymbals onto your thumb and pointer finger and make music!
Humming Flute
Materials Needed:
- Cardboard Paper Towel or Toilet Paper Roll
- Wax Paper
- Rubber Band
- Pencil
Instructions:
With a pencil, poke 3 or 4 holes in the cardboard roll about 1 inch
apart. Cut a 4 inch square of wax paper. Secure the wax paper over one
end of the cardboard roll using the rubber band. Your flute is now
ready to play! You can also decorate the tube before you put on the wax
paper.
Materials Needed:
- Felt
- 1/2 to 1 Inch Size Jingle Bells
- Glue
- Needle and Thread
Instructions:
Cut out 4 slightly over-sized mitten shapes out of felt. Attach 2 of
the felt pieces together with glue, or sew them together, leaving the
bottom open for the hand to fit in. Repeat with the other 2 pieces of
felt. Sew 4 Jingle Bells along the finger edge of each mitt. Slip the
mitts on and clap your hands together to make music!
Musical Bottle
Materials Needed:- Empty (and dry) Small Water or Pop Bottle
- Plain or Colored Noodles and/or Rice
- Glitter or Sequins
- Tape or Glue
- Ribbon
Instructions:
Filled a clean, dry water or pop bottle 1/4 - 1/2 full with noodles,
rice, and glitter. The tape (or glue) the lid on and then tie a ribbon
around the neck of the bottle. Turned on the music, dance, and make
lots of wonderful noise!
Materials Needed:
- Cardboard Paper Towel or Toilet Paper Roll
- Packaging Tape
- Dried Rice
Instructions:
- Take a toilet paper tube and put 1-3 pieces of packaging tape and put it on one end of the tube.
- Put a handful of rice in the tube next. (Be generous with the rice because some of it will stick to tape!!!!!)
- Put 1-3 pieces of tape on the opposite end of the tube.
- Decorate your rice maraca with markers or any thing else.
- Now give your Rice-A-Raca a shake and see how it works.
Paper Plate Taborine
Materials Needed:
- 2 Paper Plates
- Crayons
- Dried Beans
- Stapler or Glue
Decorate the paper plates however you want. Put one paper plate on the table, with the right side up. Place the other paper plate on top of the first one, right side down. This will make a gap in the middle. Start stapling the edges together. Leave an opening at the top to slide a handful of dried beans in. Finsih stapling it shut. You are now ready to play some music!
Materials Needed:
- Cardboard Roll
- Wax Paper
- Rubber Band
These kazoos are very easy to make. Get an empty TP tube and a piece of wax paper big enough to completely cover the end of the toilet paper roll. Secure the wax paper tightly onto the end of the toilet paper roll with a rubber band. With a nail or pen, poke a small hole in the cardboard tube near the end covered with wax paper. To play the kazoo you hold the uncovered end of the tube to your mouth and hum into it.
Bottle Cap Rattles
Materials Needed:
- Metal Bottle Caps
- 1-inch Thick Dowel
- Nails
Instead of a dowel you can use an old broom stick! Cut dowel or stick to whatever length you desire.
Take metal bottle caps and punch holes in the centers, remove any cork or plastic from the bottle caps. Then, nail two bottle caps, back to back, loosely to the dowel. These are nailed onto the side of the dowel or broomstick very close to the end. Add as many sets to the dowl as you desire, atleast 4 sets work well.
To play your bottle cap rattle, gently tap the bottom (farthest away from the bottle cap sets) on a tabletop, floor, or hand.