How to create homemade musical instruments with children

Music should serve as a tool to create, experiment and share with others. What better way to do it than in a creative and accessible way to all pockets? A fantastic option is to build our own musical instruments and as a family. Are you bored at home with your family and do not know what to do? Do y

Are you bored at home with your family and do not know what to do? Do you like Music and do not have the budget to buy a musical instrument? You have an open world of possibilities to develop your imagination and that of your children through Music. Do it by creating homemade musical instruments with recycled materials. Everyone can have a similar item on hand at home.

Ideas for making musical instruments in the family

- Piano with glass yogurt containers: Place a firm box as a base, either of wood or hard cardboard or shoe box. Place the glass yogurt containers aligned so that each one makes a sound. They can be of different sizes so they can be tuned in different tones or fill them at different water levels. You already have a very original piano. Beat them with a spoon and exchange different sounds and rhythms.

- Homemade Maracas: Look for an empty plastic bottle or aluminum can. Fill it with some legume like lentils or chickpeas and shake it like a professional maraca.

- Homemade rattle: Take a sock and fill it with metal sheets or coins, put an elastic band to close the sock. It only remains to move to the rhythm of the music.

- Homemade Battery: Collect all the basins you find at home and distribute them as follows: Large basin in the center and two smaller laterals. Use spoons, skimmers, or just two sticks to make sticks.

How to use homemade music instruments with children

After having spent an entertaining time creating your own musical instruments, you can end the day by offering a 'MUSICAL CONCERT', with the instruments that you have elaborated and give an end in end.

Invite your friends and family, and position each of them forming a 'Family Orchestra'. Each one will have a different role in the orchestra. One of you will act as director, take a baton (it can even be a pencil), and direct your great orchestra.

Practice first alone, without musical accompaniment, play with arm movements and intensities. Experiment with the different sounds.

Afterwards, you can play any piece of music and play at your own pace. It resorts to the Great classics or to different musical styles.

Let yourself be carried away by the imagination and become a professional musician, in an original, fun and above all familiar way.

ENJOY MUSIC IN FAMILY!