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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make some music by constructing a kazoo out of a simple plastic drinking straw. Use this activity to explore sound, vibrations, and music.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 Under 5 minutes
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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.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Play-Doh is conductive! Use the semiconductive qualities of Play-Doh to make your own squeezable instrument. Pico Cricket is required.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will create their own percussion instrument with recycled materials. Learners will explore design, fabrication, cause and effect and sound through this activity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners build pan pipes out of drinking straws by cutting them to different lengths. Then, learners make music by blowing across the straws and playing some well-known songs.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Build a musical ice theremin by programming a micro controller, like a Pico Cricket to respond to resistance generated by the ice melting, or the ice being touched.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners observe, explore and investigate vibrating instruments in everyday places and create music in unique ways.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 8 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a traditional Mexican noisemaker (a matraca) using cardboard, craft sticks, and a wooden dowel.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners explore electricity and conductivity to find that many things conduct electricity including copper, pencil lead, fruit, play-doh, and even people!

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this is activity about sound and vibration, learners create their own 'flutes' with drinking straws, then investigate how changing the length of the straw affects the sounds that are produced.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a rain stick, a musical instrument originating in South America.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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With a bit of PVC, a laser, a can/cup, and a small mirror, you can make a device that visualizes you voice or any sound transmitted into the cup/can.

free Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners create music from a series of bottles filed with water. Learners discover that the sound produced by each bottle depends on the amount of water in the bottle.

free Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate sound and vibration by making a "bee hummer"--a toy that sounds like a swarm of buzzing bees when you spin it around.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing their very own banjo out of a coffee can. Learners experiment with the canjo to change the instrument's pitch and timbre.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a hearing based memory game that they can share with friends.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing an instrument toy that buzzes when you swing it.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing their very own instruments using PVC pipes, soda bottles, and a straw.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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With a straw, two craft sticks, and some rubber bands, construct a noisemaker called a Sound Sandwich and explore how vibration produces sound.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes