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In this activity, leaners build their very own rainsticks, an instrument filled with pebbles and seeds that create sounds like falling rain. Save costs by using material found around the home.

Sound can travel through a variety of media.

This activity provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a rain stick, a musical instrument originating in South America.

With three cans and some tape, make a drum that you bonk down on any surface to produce a variety of sounds. This activity also teaches you about pitch, vibration, and frequency.

If you got a big graduated or clear cylinder, water, a pipe, and a tuning fork, you've got a sound learning opportunity! Learn about resonance with this Exploratorium Science Snack.

Make a cuíca (“kwee-ka”), a traditional Brazilian musical instrument that originated in Africa. Played primarily in Brazil, now you can play it at home, too, with this Exploratorium produced activity.

Listen to the beat of gravity. By taking two strings with weights tied to them at different, yet uniform intervals, you can hear the uniformity (and rhythm) of gravity's accelerating pull.

Create an instrument that you don't play--you just listen to it through tubes of various lengths.

Oboes's unique sound originates from the two small reeds a musician blows into. Make your own double reed instrument out of straw!

We listen to stereo music systems, tv's, and radios because it simulates being where the sound originates.