Hey why not have fun with your kids and save money! Whether you are a parent, caregiver or teacher why not have some fun and create your own home found sounds and become a home grown orchestra or a ‘two man band’.

Here are some music instrument ideas

Drums:
Turn pots up side down or leave lids on; use a cake or biscuit tin; clean out a paint tin – bang with a wooden, plastic or metal spoons to create different sounds. Make a double drum by tying two different sized tins together side by side..

toddler-child-pots-pans-play

Strummers:
Put some rubber bands around a stiff cardboard shoebox lid or tissue box. Cut a hole in the top of the box to fit a cardboard roll. Strum the rubber bands like a guitar.

strummer

 

Tapping Sticks:
Use two smooth sticks (dowel sticks are great) about 15 cm long (6 in)

dowel sticks

Shakers:
Use small plastic bottles or small tins with lids that can be screwed tight or taped down securely. You can fill with a small amount of: pebbles, shells, rice, lentils, dried peas etc. You can make sloshing sounding shakers if you partly fill with water and pebbles.

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Rain Sticks:
Use a paper towel or toilet paper cylinder and partly fill with rice. Place paper towel or paper at the ends of the cylinder and secure with a rubber band; by varying the amounts of rice you will create different pitches.

rainsticks

Once the kids have made their instrument head over to our YouTube channel childrenlovetosing and pick a song to play along to! Don’t forget to send us your videos or photos by emailing us or tagging us on Facebook. You never know there might be a prize for your kids!

Have fun creating happy memories!