Little children can make these with
a little adult supervision. Scissors needed for cutting. Some
gluing. Tuning unnecessary or minimal. Recommended by your homeschool guide.
The Bullroarer
Children's
Music by Nancy Stewart - Homemade Instruments
Here are some musical instruments you can make with your child from
everyday items: Plastic Egg Shakers, Paper Mache Fruit Shakers,
Jingle Sticks, African Tambourine, Sand Blocks, Juice Can Shakers,
Jingle Bracelets, and Quilting Hoop Drum.
9 Easy to Make Musical Instruments
Children love music as much as they enjoy making things. Why not join these two creative forces and make one or all of these fun and easy musical instruments to encourage play and creativity.
Children 6-10 will find these easy to
make. Scissors or box cutting knife or glue gun may be needed.
Tuning not difficult.
Guitars
As Sculpture
I'm not sure that these artistic electric guitars can really
play music, but they are fun to look at.
How To Build Your Own Musical Instrument
This site contains photos of homemade musical instruments constructed as part of a unit on sound production. There are galleries of homemade musical instruments. Click on the School name to see their homemade instruments.
Inventing
Homemade Instruments with Math and Measurement
You will learn how musical instruments vibrate in a series of
fractions called the harmonic series, and how to design your
own musical instruments by measuring length, liquid volume and
weight/mass.
Panpipes
by Phil Tulga
Building pan pipes is a fun way for students to apply their knowledge
of measurement and length. As they will hear: longer tubes produce
a lower pitch, and shorter tubes produce a higher pitch.
Satisfied
Mind
Make a banjo, bass, a dancing lumberjack, dulcimer, drum, rainstick,
or a thumb piano.
Singing
Glasses
What dinner party is complete without a song from the Wine Glass
Symphony? You'll need a few wine glasses, some water, and a tune
in mind to demonstrate the sounds of science. Amaze everyone
and display incredibly bad manners all at once.
Make a hip-hoppin' java jive bass out of an old coffee can.
Put on your homemade tuxedo and conduct your own orchestra.
Making Music
by Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff
Grade 3-5--Using easy-to-follow directions and examples drawn from musical forms from around the globe, Wiseman and Langstaff invite children to explore the world of music by showing them how to create their own instruments and rhythms.
