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Easy Crafts With Music
by Wendy Adams
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Overview
Introduce creative music making into a child's life with easy-to-make musical crafts. You can create a multitude of unique musical instruments with common household items. With a little imagination you can make drums, flutes, kazoos, shakers and more. Start your own class orchestra. Imagine the possibilities of sound with each child making a distinctively different easy craft music maker.
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Finger Cymbals
Make finger cymbals from two metal lids from small jars, craft foam, sticker and a hot glue gun. Cut two foam circles to fit inside the metal lids. Cut a strip of craft foam 1-inch wide and long enough to fit around two fingers. Glue the strip into a continuous ring, and glue it to the inside of a metal cap using a hot glue gun.
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Yogurt Cup Shakers
Make a pair of music-making shakers from a pair of empty yogurt containers, two paint stirrers, wooden spoons or a yard stick, and dried beans or popcorn kernels. Trace the yogurt container top on cardboard and use scissors to cut out two lids. The amount of dried beans or popcorn in the yogurt containers determines the sound they will make when shaken. Find your own sound by experimenting with different amounts of beans in each container. Glue the cardboard lids on the yogurt containers with a hot glue gun to seal the shakers. Glue the shaker (cardboard lid side) to the handle with a hot glue gun. Paint the yogurt containers in bright colors, and tie streamer of string or ribbon to the handles or decoration.
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Paper Plate Musical Shaker
Create a colorful and festive musical shaker out of a paper plate, bird seed and crepe or tissue paper streamers. Decorate the bottom of the paper plate with colorful designs using markers or crayons. Consider writing a name on the shaker to personalize it. Cut streamers from colorful crepe paper or tissue paper and glue them to the inside lip on one half of the plate. Fold the paper plate in half to create a pocket (eating side of the plate together) and fill with a handful of bird seed. Glue the paper plate closed and use clothes pin, hair clips or bobby pins to hold in place until the glue is dry.
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Tips
White glue or rubber cement is the best glue choice for paper plate projects. Always provide adult supervision when using a hot glue gun around children.
