Make Your Own Straw Panpipes!

from Buggy And Buddy website

Directions:

1. Cut straws into different lengths, you can either experiment with measuring and cutting or try one of the options below:

   • Large Straws:

     • 6 inches

     • 5.5 inches

     • 5 inches

     • 4 inches

     • 3.5 inches

   • Regular Straws (measurements may vary pending on straw width):

     • Do = 17.5 cm

     • Re = 15.5 cm

     • Mi = 13.5 cm

     • Fa = 12.5 cm

     • So = 11 cm

     • La = 10 cm

     • Ti = 9 cm

     • Do' = 8.5 cm

2. Line up the straws from longest to shortest and wrap tape around them in a row on both sides

3. Number each straw with a sharpie or marker

4. Practice making sounds with your panpipe by resting your lower lip on the edge of the straw and blowing across (e.g. similar to making sound through the top of an empty water bottle)

5. Create your own tune by writing down numbers in each box below!

Make Your Own Shakers!

Materials Needed:

• tupperware, small container, tin box, empty water bottle, toilet or paper towel roll, Easter egg, or empty cans

• beans, rice, dried corn, bolts, seeds, marbles, rocks, buttons, beads... anything you'd like! Experiment creatively!

• Optional:

  • tape, spoon, rubberband

Steps for Tupperware/Containers/Box/Bottle/Eggs:

1. Open the container

2. Put however much beans/rice/etc content you would like into the container

3. Test out the sound by shaking it, adjust more or less beans/rice/etc until you like the sound

   • you can even try mixing different contents like having rocks and buttons in it! see what cool sound combinations you can create!

4. Close the container; if you would like, secure it with tape

Make Your Own Hairpin Kalimba!

Materials Needed:

• bobby pins

• rubber bands

• chopsticks or two sticks

• empty water bottle, block of wood, styrofoam, plastic container, get creative!

• Optional:

  • stapler, pliers, pen/marker

Steps:

1. Put one chopstick on the front of the wood block and one behind, then tie the chopstick ends on both sides of the wood block with the rubber band

2. Carefully bend the bobby pins open to an acute angle and push them in on one base of the chopsticks; adjust the pitch with pulling/pushing them further out

3. Decorate!

4. Optional: assign numbers to each bobby pin with a pen or marker and write a song using the numbers :)