HOMEMADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HELP PLEASE.

[Tiddler]

Hi i am making a few musical bits and pieces to entertain my 16month old daughter, any ideas would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

These are VERY BASIC! But I've :-

1/4 filled a plastic bottle (coke etc) with rice and taped the lipd on for a shaker

put elastic bands around a shoe box

GOD they are basic aren't they

Biscuit tins upside down are drums. As are saucepans, footstools, cardboard boxes, any plastic tub you can find. Wooden spoons for drumsticks.

Making ooohs, aaarrgghs and farty noises ( with your mouth...) down toilet roll or kitchen roll tube.

God ladies you are good!!! I am impressed!!! and within minutes too!!! Esp liking the deer horn suggestion there...
anyone know how to make that one!!! ???

lol MamaG, I was going to suggest the same sort of things!!

Ermmmm, how about a comb and tissue paper? (have never quite got it to work though)

Upturned saucepans and a wooden spoon?

I'm crap at this as well

Actually, ds made a great clarinet/saxaphone type thing at a museum activity some time ago. You need a tube, a plastic cup, a balloon and a straw. Cut the bottom off the plastic cup and tape it to the top of the tube. Cut a piece of balloon out and stretch it across the top of the cup. Cut a hole in the side of the cup and stick a piece of straw through it. Hey presto!

[looks at hewlettsdaughter]

Sorry, MamaG's post just reminded me

I always thought shakers were great for little ones...

I'll get me coat...

I don't need your pity post

It was a museum activity

I am so not Crafty (wish I was)