Easy Homemade Musical Instrument Projects For Kids

How to make

1. Cut the colored cardboard or paper into equal size strips which are the container's height (see the side view photograph). These will be used later for the drum's decoration.


2. Decorate your drum by glueing the strips around the outside of your container and leave it to dry.


3. To strengthen and protect this surface, cover it with the sticky contact.


4. To make the bottom of the drum, place the container on top of the cardboard and trace around it and cut it out (if you wish, place contact on top of this cardboard piece).


5. Glue the bottom of the drum in place and leave to dry.


6. To make the playing surface, cut the thick piece of plastic to size, ensuring that you allow extra room so that it can be fastened with the rubber band.


7. The final step is to fasten this in place with the rubber band and you're done!

You will need

Plastic tubing, or a poster tube small or large (these are tubes that you can put posters in to send or protect them) and some paint for decoration.

How to make it

Choose the colors that you want to paint with (the paint must be non-toxic and safe for children to use). The aboriginals use natural colors, but you can use whatever you want.

Paint the whole tube with the colors of your choice, then leave it to dry (be sure to apply an initial coat of the base color first). That's all there is to it and you now have your very own home made Didgeridoo!

Do not cover up the ends, as it will not make any sound.

Blow into the tube and discover the different sounds that you can make. Playing the Didgeridoo well is not an easy task but it really is a beautiful instrument and it has a great sound when played well.

1. Decorate the funnel with the coloured tape and push it into one end of the hose and fix it in place with the coloured tape.


2. Add coloured tape to the other end of the hose to make the mouth piece.


3. Loop the hose as shown in the photograph securing it with coloured tape where it overlaps - please note as can be seen from the photograph that the pencil is also secured in place.


4. Decorate the trumpet with strips of coloured tape and with the cord or ribbon.



Now your trumpet is ready. The trumpet produces only a few notes but you can vary the sounds by pressing your lips tighter together as you blow, or letting them relax a little.