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Description

Create a musical instrument with recyclable materials and perform a song with them

Resources

Old recyclable materials from home, cardboard tubes, boxes, plastic bottles etc, adhesives, imagination

Instructions

Get the Cubs to bring in their recyclable materials from home and get them to create their own musical instruments. Once they have completed the instruments, they need to devise a musical performance and perform this to the Cub Pack

Examples:

Make a drum

1. Get a tin, rubber bands, old pens, scissors, and a balloon or plastic bag.
2. Cut the end of the balloon off or cut a circle out of the plastic bag large enough to wrap over the top of the tin.
3. Use a rubber band to secure the balloon or plastic over the top of the tin.
4. Make drumsticks by tying a rubber band on to the end of an old pen.

Make a guitar

1. Get a tissue box or cereal box, rubber bands, kitchen roll tube, sticky tape and scissors.
2. If you’re using a cereal box, carefully cut a hole in the middle of the front of the box and tape the lid closed.
3. Take a kitchen roll tube and cut slits around one end of the tube.
4. Place the end you have cut slits into onto one of the shorter ends of the box.
5. Stick it onto the box using sticky tape.
6. Wrap rubber bands from the end of the box, over its middle and all the way to the end of the tube. If you can’t reach the end of the tube, just stretch the bands over the box.
7. Tape the ends of the box and the tube to keep the rubber bands in place.

Make a violin

1. Get a tissue box or cereal box, rubber bands, kitchen roll tube, sticky tape and scissors.
2. If you’re using a cereal box, carefully cut a hole in the middle of the front of the box and tape the lid closed.
3. Cut halfway down one end of a kitchen roll tube, Make another cut on the same end of the tube to create a flap.
4. Cut this flap off, leaving a bit at the bottom. Keep the flap piece you cut off to one side.
5. Stick the tube onto your box using sticky tape. The end you cut the flap from should go on the front of your box just in front of where the hole is. The other end that wasn’t cut is where you will hold your violin.
6. Take the cardboard flap you cut from the tube earlier and roll it up from top to bottom.
7. Stick it together so it stays rolled then stick the roll onto the end of the neck of your violin.
8. Wrap rubber bands from the end box, over the middle of it all the way to the end of the tube. If you can’t reach the end of the tube, you can cut the rubber bands, stretch them over the front and tape the ends to secure them.
9. Tape the ends of the box and the tube to keep the rubber bands in place.
10. Use an old plastic pen for your bow.

Make maracas

1. Get a small plastic bottle (with a lid), something to shake (such as rice, small pasta, old buttons or beads) and (optional) kitchen roll tube, sticky tape and scissors.
2. Take the lid off the bottle and pour something to shake into the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Tightly screw the lid back on the bottle.

Optional – to make a handle:

4. Take a kitchen roll tube and cut slits around one end of the tube.
5. Place the end you have cut slits into onto the top of the bottle and tape it down securely using sticky tape.
Reflection

Tags

• creative
• entertainer
• Instruments
• musical
• Perform

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