In order to make children's musical instruments, you need to have courage. After all, if such objects fall into children’s hands, they will become a source of sound that is far from harmony. However, no parent will doubt that such toys are very useful for developing a sense of rhythm and hearing. Not to mention the joy that a home orchestra will bring to your child.
Making the “Sound of Rain” instrument
If you decide to make musical instruments with your own hands, then you should start simple. This will be the “sound of rain,” which is also called the “staff of rain.” This percussion instrument was once made by Latin Americans from cactus stems, which were initially very audible. The instrument was used in shamanic rituals that were aimed at causing rain.
Preparation of materials
It is quite easy to make such musical instruments with your own hands; in the end you will be able to obtain a sound that resembles the sound of rain. To carry out the work you should prepare:
- awl;
- scissors;
- cereal;
- colored tape;
- foil tube;
- toothpicks;
- glue;
- cardboard.
You can use a baking paper tube instead of a foil tube. Rice or millet are perfect for cereal. To decorate the instrument, you can use not only colored tape, but also other materials.
Features of the work
Musical instruments They are often made by loving parents with their own hands. One of the first ones is usually the “sound of rain”, since it is quite simple to make. Holes should be made in the foil tube using an awl, arranging them in a spiral. The more holes you can make, the more the sound of the instrument will resemble the sound of rain.
Toothpicks are inserted into the holes, which can be secured with drops of glue. Using wire cutters or scissors, you can quite easily cut off the excess ends of the toothpicks. One end of the tube should be covered with a cardboard circle, and then secure the structure with tape.
It is very easy to make a musical instrument with your own hands from scrap materials; to do this, pour several spoons of cereal into the tube, only after which you can close the end with your palm to check the sound. You can experiment which sound - buckwheat, rice and millet - you like better. The amount of cereal should be determined experimentally; it will depend on the size of the pipe.
Instead of cereals, you can use small beads and seed beads. As soon as a suitable sound can be found, the second end of the tube must be covered with a cardboard circle and secured with tape. When such musical instruments are made with your own hands, final stage It is important to decorate them beautifully. These works are carried out at will. You can stick on an applique, make decoupage, or decorate the ends with cords and ribbons, crocheted. One of the most practical options will become colored tape.
Making drums, tambourines and rattles
DIY musical instruments for children in the form of drums can be made from mayonnaise jars. They are decorated with color pictures. Holes should be made on the sides for threading the rope. You can use any drumsticks made of plastic or wood. The latter should be made independently if the men in the house have skills in working with wood.
To make tambourines, you can use dry cans. Holes are made in the sides, bells are inserted, which can be purchased at sewing accessories departments, and then the product is decorated using decoupage or appliqué. If you need musical instruments, do it yourself for kindergarten they can be made quite easily. The most common are rattles. Plastic or metal bottles for coffee, yogurt, ketchup or other products are suitable for them. The filling can be any cereal, beads, as well as buttons of different sizes.
Making a pipe
The pipe can be made from materials that you can find while relaxing in nature. Reeds, reeds, and birch bark are suitable for this. You can use any other tubular plants, dense leaves or bark. The tube should be left until it dries, then a platform is made in it using a knife and a small rectangle is cut out.
You will need to cut a rectangle from birch bark, making one end thinner. Afterwards, it is secured to the tube with tape and bent slightly. If you wish, you can make a few more holes. This option is not the only one that can be used to make a pipe. A cocktail straw is perfect for this.
The one that has an accordion can be used as a base. The smaller part should be flattened, and then pieces of the upper part should be cut off with scissors. The result should be an angle. It should not be too small or large, otherwise the pipe will not sound.
Making castanets
Many parents today make their own musical instruments for kindergarten. These could be castanets, which will require coins. For this Spanish tool, you need to cut out 4 rectangles from cardboard, each measuring 6x14 cm. Two rectangles should be 6x3.5 cm in size.
Such a noise musical instrument is also made with your own hands using glue and four large coins. Large rectangles need to be folded in half and glued in pairs. From small strips you should glue a ring for thumb. Inside the rectangle, for each opposite side, you need to glue a coin, 1 cm away from the edge. When the cardboard castanets are folded, the coins should touch, creating a peculiar sound.
Percussion instruments
You can make another model of a children's drum using:
- ceramic 14 cm pot;
- balloons;
- plasticine;
- sushi sticks.
You need to cut off the neck of the ball and pull it onto the pot. The hole at the bottom of the pot is closed with plasticine. At this point we can assume that the drum is ready. All that remains is to make the sticks. Sushi sticks are perfect for them; at the end of each of them you should attach a ball of plasticine, which is pre-frozen. From hot air balloon the lower part is cut off, which should be pulled onto a plasticine ball. An elastic band from the top of the ball tightens this structure.
Tools from scrap materials
You can get very unusual sounds if you make a musical instrument with your own hands. It could be a musical slingshot. To do this, select a tree branch of the appropriate shape, which must be well sanded. For safety and long service life, you can coat it with varnish. Holes are drilled in two opposite ends of the slingshot, between which a thread with elements attached to it, borrowed from an old baby rattle, will be stretched. These can also be purchased at a hardware store.
You can make a ratchet from nut shells. To do this, prepare two wooden or plastic sticks, between which a strong thread. First, you should put pistachio nut shells on it, which are strengthened with knots.
You can also make a musical instrument with your own hands with unusual sounds from a small water bottle. Dried thin branches and cereals, which can be rice, are placed inside it. As a result, it is possible to achieve versatility in sound. If you design such a bottle, it can be turned into real maracas. For this, you can use containers from Kinder Surprises, which are pre-filled with cereal or other small items.
By making children's musical instruments with your own hands, you can make ringing bracelets. To do this, metal bells are purchased at a hardware store, which should be sewn to a pre-made fabric bracelet. It will be held on your hand with Velcro.
One of the most simple solutions is a noisemaker stick. To do this you should prepare wooden blank, on which you need to fix the ropes with caps fixed at their ends from plastic bottles. Additionally, you can use the same bells.
Conclusion
You can also make your own musical instruments for the garden. Lids from plastic cans are quite suitable for this, which are secured with glue to a strip of corrugated cardboard, folded in half at the end. To obtain sound, the covers must be aligned with each other, which will produce impact noise.
IN children's store A girl in the musical instruments department caught my attention. She looked with curiosity at the metallophone with bright colored plates, the funny accordion, the pot-bellied drum... A fun activity was broken by dad’s remark: “Why do you need this? Let’s go and buy an educational toy...”
Dear parents, do you really doubt the ability of musical toys to develop? Children's music playing is active look activities in which the child’s thinking is improved; The ability to show initiative and independence develops. And most importantly, his emotional sphere is enriched - a kind of immunity from life’s failures. After all, emotions make it possible to evaluate current events from the point of view of their significance for each of us.
In the process of playing instruments, each individual’s individual traits clearly manifest themselves: presence of will, emotionality, concentration, imagination. For many, this type of activity helps to reveal the spiritual world and overcome shyness and constraint.
Nowadays there is a huge selection of children's musical instruments in stores. But not everyone is able to purchase these toys. Yes, and there is no need for this. After all, the child grows and develops so quickly, and the previous toys no longer satisfy the child’s cognitive needs. And the need for their renewal is growing every day.
There is a good way out. You can design toys yourself and update and modify them over time. A handmade tool will help you teach your child to work together. To design, you don’t need much - desire and a little imagination!
You can start with the simplest thing - rattles. For the base of this toy, any plastic bottles (from yogurt, drinks, creams) can be suitable, as well as material - filling that will make noise and attract the child’s attention. Any cereal, buttons of different sizes, beads will do.
Take a bottle and pour it inside large number material so that the toy is light in weight. When choosing a material, pay attention to the fact that too sharp sounds cause discomfort in the baby. Please also pay attention to the strength of the packaging. Remember that scattered small parts of the rattle can get into the baby's mouth and nose. The toy will bring joy to you and your baby if it is safe, loud, and also bright. You can decorate the toy with self-adhesive colored paper and satin ribbons. And if you glue or draw eyes, a nose and a smiling mouth on top of colored paper, the toy will “come to life” and become the baby’s faithful friend.
I would also like to suggest one of the drum design options. I am sincerely convinced that in the process of making a tool you will have a large number of original ideas. Try to organize the design process in such a way that the baby takes part in it as much as possible.
To make a drum we will need:
- metal box for cookies or tea;
- semolina;
- satin ribbon (can be replaced with any wide braid);
- body from two used gel pens;
- capsule from shoe covers (or plastic egg from Kinder Surprise);
- filler for sticks - rattles (beads, small buttons, beads or any cereal).
Drum body
- Take a metal box - this will be the drum body. Using an awl, punch 2 holes opposite each other closer to the top edge of the wall and two holes in the lid.
- Inside the box, pour a 1 cm layer of semolina (to slightly muffle the sound of the drum).
- Connect pairs of holes with the end of the tape
- Close the lid tightly, tighten the tape in a knot and wrap tape around the junction of the lid and the box to prevent the semolina from spilling out.
Making rattle sticks
- Take 2 cases from used gel pens:
- unscrew the tip from the body;
- open the shoe cover capsule;
- Using a knife, cut a hole in the capsule cap with a diameter slightly smaller than the thread of the pen body.
- Place the handle housing in the hole and screw the tip tightly to it.
Now the capsule can be closed. By the way, this capsule can be filled with small buttons, cereals, beads and then the drumsticks will turn into funny rattles.
The drum is ready for use.
After some time, the drum can be updated. Just decorate it with colored self-adhesive paper. Not only will it change appearance instrument, but also its sound.
Let musical toys become a faithful ally and assistant in the development of your baby. And I wish you joy from joint creativity!
Shulakova Veronica,
singer-choirmaster, music teacher
Article provided by the Pampa Green children's club
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MUSICAL NOISE ORCHESTRA.
By definition explanatory dictionary, a musical instrument is an object with which musicians produce sounds. Consequently, the material for making musical toy instruments can be different: waste and natural.
As source materials for my noise orchestra, I used: DVD boxes, the discs themselves, beads, plastic plates, cream jars, kinder surprises, pen refills, shoe cover cases. Suitable fillers include: sand, cereal, gravel, bottle caps, beads, paper clips - in general, anything that rings and makes noise.
Drum
To make a drum we will need:
Cream jar;
Beads, cereal, balloon;
Ballpoint pen body;
Shoe cover case;
Making a drum body and rattle sticks
Filling for sticks (beads, small buttons, beads or any cereal)
Take a cream jar - this will be the drum body.
Place a rubber balloon in place of the lid.
Take two ballpoint pen refills.
Open the shoe cover case and make a hole in the colored lid that is smaller than the thread of the handle body.
Screw the handle body into the hole.
We fill the case with beads or cereals and close it.
We decorate the drum with colored paper or oracal.
The drum is ready for use
Gusli
We will need:
Stationery rubber bands for strings;
DVD box - for the resonator;
Colored paper, stick or pencil.
Cut a hole in the disc case.
Pull rubber bands onto the case.
Place a pencil under the elastic strings - they will rise.
The tuning of the instrument can be adjusted by choosing rubber bands of different thicknesses (the thicker the rubber band, the lower the sound).
Play the harp either by plucking the strings one at a time or by running your finger along all the strings at once.
Ratchet
To make a ratchet we will need:
6 DVDs
Stationery eraser,
Beads, colored paper or oracle.
Drill holes in each disk. Decorate the blanks with colored paper or oracal, string them on a rubber band, inserting beads between the blanks. To hold it suspended when playing on the sides of the ratchet, make loops of rubber bands (5 beads strung on both sides of the ratchet). Secure the first and last beads with an additional knot. Tie the ends of the elastic with a triple knot. Kid holding a ratchet in front of him. threads his index fingers into the loops and plays by sharply squeezing and unclenching the plates with his palms (“strike”);
In a fascinating form of music - rhythm games for children is onomatopoeia and elementary music playing on children's noise musical instruments. From 4 to 5 years old, children play with great pleasure to dance music, accompany children's songs, improvise sound pictures on a given topic, or illustrate suitable poems with noises.
Playing children's noise instruments - develops ear for music, rhythm, musical memory, forms verbal and nonverbal communication, forms the readiness and ability to act in a team, develops fine and gross motor skills, as well as auditory, visual, and tactile perception abilities.
Such joint play time for a child can be organized by any parents without special methodological or musical training.
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Children's musical instruments. with your own hands. Musical director Verchenko M.P. MKDOU kindergarten No. 2
Musical instruments for children always remain wonderful, unusually attractive objects that you really want to play. After all, an instrument for children is a symbol of music, and the one who plays it is almost a magician. In the process of playing instruments, each individual’s individual traits clearly manifest themselves: presence of will, emotionality, concentration, imagination. For many, this type of activity helps to reveal the spiritual world. Overcome shyness and stiffness.
So what is noise? Noise is random, non-periodic vibrations of a sounding body. Unlike musical sounds, noise does not have a precisely defined pitch. Noise sounds include crackling, rattling, creaking, rustling, etc., and noise orchestral instruments are devices for producing noise that create a certain rhythmic and timbre coloring.
Nowadays there is a huge selection of children's musical instruments (CHI) in stores, but not everyone is able to purchase these toys, and there is no need for this, because the child grows and develops so quickly. And the previous toys no longer satisfy the baby’s cognitive needs. And the need for their renewal is growing every day. There is a good way out. You can design toys yourself and update and modify them over time. A handmade tool will help you teach your child to work together. To design, you don’t need much – desire and a little imagination! So, I suggest you show a little imagination!
Musical mittens
We take old mittens and unnecessary buttons
We decorate the back of the mittens with bows
We admire the finished work
maracas It is always mysterious and desirable to explore the insides of instruments. To satisfy your child's curiosity. I propose to make it widespread in South America noise instrument maracas. A real maracas is an empty pumpkin with peas inside. We will make maracas from a small plastic bottle or Kinder Surprise case.
Pour buckwheat or rice or semolina into a case or plastic bottle (the volume of the instrument depends on the grain), close the lid...
And... the maracas are ready!!! You can put peas, bells, beads, coins, etc. in a larger bottle. You can experiment and pour a variety of “sounding” small objects into iron boxes for sweets and lollipops. Then the sound will be more sonorous. Or in wooden or cardboard boxes different sizes and volume. If the child is still very small, then the opening parts of the instrument must be securely sealed, for example, with tape.
drum To make a drum we will need: A mayonnaise jar; Semolina or sand; Used markers; Kinder surprise case; Filling for sticks (beads, small buttons, beads or any cereal).
Making the drum body and rattle sticks: Take a mayonnaise jar - this will be the drum body. Pour a 1 cm layer of semolina or sand inside the jar (to slightly muffle the sound of the drum). Close the lid tightly. Take two used markers. Open the Kinder Surprise case and make a hole in one part that is smaller than the thread of the felt-tip pen body. Place a marker in the hole. We fill the case with beads or cereals and close it. We decorate the drum with colored paper. The drum is ready to use!
psaltery We will need: Stationery rubber bands for the strings; Juice bag 1-1.5 l - for the resonator; Two sticks (pencils) - for the thresholds. Pull the elastic bands along the length of the bag. Place a stick under the elastic strings - they will rise. Place the second nut stick under the “strings” parallel to the first or at an angle to it. The tuning of the instrument can be adjusted in two ways: by selecting rubber bands of different thicknesses (the thicker the rubber band, the lower the sound), or by changing the angle between the saddles. In this case, the length of the sounding part of the string will change, since the part of the rubber band that is stretched between the saddles sounds. Given the same thickness of strings, a shorter one will produce a higher sound. Play the harp either by plucking the strings one at a time or by running your finger along all the strings at once.
Ratchet
Making musical instruments with your own hands is a useful and exciting activity. Not here clear rules and laws, so any idea can easily turn into reality: paint, tie, glue, pour, pour, sew, experiment... The main thing is to make music together, then it will bring both the baby and you a great creative mood!
DIY musical noise instruments.
Author: Markova Ruslana Pavlovna. Musical director of the Children's Preschool Educational Institution "Skazka" in the village of Trostyanka, Balashovsky district, Saratov region.Description: This master class will be useful for teachers preschool education and parents. Designed for older children preschool age.
Target: training master class participants in the use of noise musical instruments in working with preschool children.
Tasks:
Introduce master class participants to the methods of making noise musical instruments;
To introduce the methods and techniques of using noise musical instruments in everyday life;
Level up professional competence most teachers, as well as parents, their motivation for systematic use in practice.
Materials:
plastic bottles (I took a bottle from children's champagne and a small bottle from mineral water), cardboard medicine box, colored paper, corrugated paper, scissors, pencil, compass, A4 paper, felt-tip pens, buckwheat, peas, salt, strong-hold PVA glue, silicone gun glue.
Today we will make three musical noise instruments at once - a large “herringbone rattle” maracas from a plastic bottle of children’s champagne, a small “musical daisy” maracas from a small plastic bottle, and a bright rainbow “rustle” from a medicine box.
Let's start making the first musical instrument.
1. We cut fairly long strips (the length or number depends on the size of the plastic bottles) with a width of seven centimeters of one color and nine centimeters of another color. We make moth-shaped cuts on one side.
2.Glue the strips to each other at the bottom of the base.
3. While our strips are drying, we cut another strip about five centimeters wide for the neck. On one side, make moth-like cuts about twenty centimeters long.
4. Having smeared the strips at the base with glue, first glue the neck with a spiral movement, then, starting from the bottom of the bottle, the main part. I ended up with several strips, which made it easier to glue.
And so, while our product is drying, we begin to make the second musical instrument - the “musical daisy”.
5. Cut a long green strip, 4-5 centimeters wide. corrugated paper. Let me explain why corrugated paper - it is much softer than plain paper, and fits better on the topography of the bottle. Apply glue to the strip and cover the bottle.
We send our bottle to dry, and begin making the “hornet”.
6. Cut multi-colored strips of 3-5 centimeters from colored paper and two squares, for the back of the box, the squares should be slightly larger, with small cuts on the corners for folding.
on one side we glue the back side tightly, without the possibility of opening it, on the other we glue it so that our “hornet” opens in order to pour the cereal there.
7. Now we paste over the strips, cutting off the excess along the edges.
Our bottles have already dried up, and we are returning to the “musical daisy”
8. On A4 paper, using a compass, draw a circle with a diameter of 13-14 centimeters.
9. Divide the circle first into four equal parts, then into eight.
10. Draw round petals.
11. Outline the neck of the bottle, making the middle of a chamomile.
12.Cut out the daisy. We don’t cut out the middle, but make cuts along the lines.
13. We tint our blanks either with felt-tip pens or paints.
14. We put the whisks on the bottle, and you can pour the cereal into our tools.
15.The last stage in the manufacture of musical instruments.
We take a piece of yellow lining material, place a bottle cap on the piece, drip heated gun glue inside the cap and glue the edges of the material inside the cap.
Screw on the lids and our musical noise instruments are READY!
And now you just need to play: the children stand in a circle, take for example the instrument that Vanya made, sing a simple song “play, play, and pass it on to someone else,” we pass the instrument to each other until all the children have played.
"Tsikki-tasy, tsyki-tasy! –
MARACAS came to life. –
You won't find it now
No one is more mobile than us!
We are not silent for a minute -
We're all banging our heads!
We will play tango for you
About the country where mangoes ripen!
Dance, amigo maracas!
Tsikki-tasy, tsyki-tasy!"