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Western Michigan University ED 430: Creativity in the Classroom |
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Diane Eberts
Ideas for Instrument Making
Listed below are ideas for making your own instruments.
Flowerpot Gong and Rubber-Band Mallet
Materials needed for gong:
Variety of clay flowerports
Nylon Rope, about 3 feet per gong
Acrylic Craft paint
Materials needed for mallet:
Paint stick or 12 inch wooden dowel, ¼ to ½ inch diameter
12 - 16 medium rubber bands
Guiro
Bottle Guiro - plastic bottle with ridges; Tin Can
String
Wooden skewer and beads
Piece of Cork
Ribbons
Simple Shakers
Soda can, yogurt containers, boxes, tins, long cardboard box or tube, paper
plates, toilet paper roll
Fillings of your choice for the shakers: rice, beans, shells, paper clips, buttons,
gravel, beads, popcorn kernels
Colorful tape
Shekere, a Ghanaian Instrumet
Use recycled materials to make your own shekere
Stencils, markers, plastic milk jug, potato or plastic net bag
Buttons, washers, pieces of thin wire, handful of beans or popcorn kernels
Gourd Rattle
Dry gourd, wire, stick or dowl about ½ - 1 inch depending on the size
of the gourd
Glue
Leather strips, feathers,
Tambourine
Will need to be paper-mache'd
Bells, ribbon, big and small metal washers
Baking ring, wallpaper paste
Boom-Bah
Broom stick or dowel, jingle bells, pot lids, keys, pie plates, rattlels wire
spring, rubber foot.
Drums
Large cans with both ends cut out
Frame drums - wood cut and nailed together in a square
Cellophane tape
Dowel rod for mallet
Masking tape for mallet head
Rainsticks
Tubes, nails, popcorn kernels, shells, beads, rice, etc.
Paper mache - yarn, etc.