Sometimes it seems like making music can be hard, especially if you don’t have an instrument at home! Sure, you can always sing a song, but what can you do if you want to play music on something?
This is where we get to be creative with our “instruments”. There are so many different ways that we can create different sounds using just the objects in our house. How many different sounds can you get out of just using a cereal box? Maybe it can be like a drum, if you hit the box with spoons. Maybe it can be a shaker, if you shake the cereal bag. Maybe it can be a megaphone and make your voice louder, if you sing into the hollow box with both ends.
My challenge for you is to see if you can find things around your house that you can make music with in each of these ways:
- Something you can shake
- Something you can scrape
- 3 different things that you can use as drums
- One object that you can get 3 different sounds out of
- Something that has both a high pitched sound and a low sound
- Something that makes your voice sound different when you sing into it
- Something that makes a sound that you might hear on a beach
- Something from nature that can make a sound
Please share some of your findings with me, I’d love to see/hear what you create! You can either share them as a comment on this post, or by email to derek.maroney@burnabyschools.ca
Happy hunting!
For inspiration, here’s a video of one of my favourite musicians, Jacob Collier, creating a song using only found sounds. So cool!
WE MADE A SHAKER OUT OF A TIC TAC GUM CONTAINER WITH SOME TIC TACS INSIDE!
There’s a fresh idea!
Tapping on different parts of Luna’s tummy when she is lying on her side makes some cool drumming sounds.
That’s great! Hopefully Luna likes it though!
vana- using hands to hit a pot to make sound as drum and crumbling a plastic bag .
Thanks Vana, those are great!