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Learn how to make children’s musical instruments out of stuff you have around the house from the founders of Music Moves Me in these Howcast videos.
Transcript Today, we’re making instruments from household items. Today, we’re going to make a xylophone out of glass cups. What you’ll need: you’ll need four or five or six glass cups, a spoon, some water . . . I’ve got a little planter water. And to make things fun, some food coloring. So what we’re …
Transcript I’m Allie Sunshine. This is part two on ‘How to Make a Vase Out of a Soda Bottle’. Now that we have the body of the vase constructed we are going to get our rubber bands out and cut the rubber bands in half. We’re going to tie them together. We’re going to take …
Transcript Today we’re making egg shaker maracas. What you’ll need is one egg carton, some rice, beans, or lentils, or anything that makes sounds, a pair of scissors, some tape, and paint is optional if you’d like to decorate. Step one. Take out your egg carton and we’re not going to need the top half …
Transcript We are making instruments from household items. And today we’re making a windchime out of a coathanger and some metal objects. This is a truly fun one to make. I take in lots of different things like washers. You can take keys. I’ve even added some of my favorite jewelry. My bracelet. I added …
Transcript Today we’re making musical instruments out of household items. We’re going to make a Buzzing Machine. Sounds like fun. We’re going to need a pair of scissors, an index card. A colored index card will work too. Some stickers if you want to decorate the index card. A rubber band, a broken pencil, or …
Transcript Aly: Hi, my name is Aly Sunshine. Johnny: I’m Johnny Wheels. Aly: We’re Music Moves Me. You can check us out on the web at musicmovesmenyc.com Johnny: We’re a music and movement company especially designed for kids. Aly: We promote learning using music and movement. Our band name is Funkytown Playground. Look out for …
Transcript Today, I’m going to show you that you can make anything in your house into a musical instrument. All you need is your imagination, a little creativity and go round your closet in the kitchen and look, what you have at home in junk can be musical. Actually we start with our hands right, …
Transcript Aly Sunshine: Today we’re making plastic bowl tambourines. What you’ll need: some ribbon, a hole puncher, a pair of scissors, some washers, and some jingle bells. What you’re going to do first is you’re going to take your plastic bowl or paper bowl of your choice, and you’re going to take the hole puncher …
Transcript We’re discussing how to make household items into musical instruments. Today we’re going to make some container shakers. This is one of my favorites because it’s super easy, it’s fun and your kids will love it and they get a chance to look what’s inside your cabinets and see what you can make into …
Transcript Today we’re making instruments with household items. We’re going to make a soda bottle bass. So what you’ll need is one soda bottle, a bunch of rubber bands, some macaroni, a Popsicle stick, some scissors, some tape. First thing we’re going to do is we are going to take the soda bottle and decorate …
Transcript Aly Sunshine: We’re making instruments from household items. My name is Aly Sunshine, and today we’re going to make a tom-tom drum out of an oatmeal container. You’ll need an oatmeal container or any kind of cardboard tube, some balloons, some rubber bands, a scissor, and some pencils to act like your homemade drumsticks. …
Transcript We’re making instruments with household items. We’re going to make a homemade spin drum. This is one of my favorite instruments. I use this a lot in my classes around the Chinese New Year. So what you’ll need is you will need one Pringles container, a scissor, a dowel, two jingle bells, a hole …
Transcript Today we’re making instruments from household items. We’re going to make a Popsicle stick harmonica. What you will need is two Popsicle sticks. It doesn’t really matter what sizes you get. Just make sure they’re both the same. They can be long or short. I thought these were kind of cool curvy ones. You …
Transcript Aly Sunshine: We’re going to make an oboe straw. So what you will need is you will need straws. You can get different size straws if you want. I got some bubble tea straws and some smaller straws. And you can play around with which ones work best for you. And then you’re going …
Transcript This is part two on how to make a box guitar. It sounds like a scary monster. So, now that we’ve decorated our box – I decorated in my funky town band poster, my favorite poster – we’re going to pick out some rubber bands. I like a little bit of a thicker rubber …
Transcript Today we are discussing how to make instruments from household items. Shake it out! The first thing we are going to make today is a bottle-cap shaker. What I did was I decorated mine with some purple construction paper, some yellow polka dots, some yellow construction paper, a little pink, and made it really …
Transcript Today we are talking about how to make instruments with household items. Sounds like a scary monster. We’re going to make a fast guitar. This is one of my favorites. What you’ll need is a cardboard box. Any size. A shoe box will do. A bigger box. A tissue box. It’s up to you. …
Transcript My name is Ally Sunshine. We’re making instruments with household items. Today we’re going to make a kazoo out of toilet paper. So, the first thing you will need is, you’ll need a toilet paper roll, you’ll need some scissors, some wax paper, a rubber band, and some construction paper and stickers if you’d …
Transcript Abby: We are discussing how to make instruments with things around the house. Today we are going to be making a wrapping paper rain stick. What you’ll need is you’ll need a wrapping paper tube or you can even use a paper towel tube. And you’ll need some balloons and some rice and beans …
Transcript This is part two of how to make a spin drum. Now that we have our spin drum made with the holes in it and the dowel, we are going to get some yarn and we’re going to cut the yarn about the length of the dowel. Then, we’re going to thread through holes …
