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Matraca
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In this activity, learners create a traditional Mexican noisemaker (a matraca) using cardboard, craft sticks, and a wooden dowel.
Make Maracas
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Make a rattle-like musical instrument! Shake it, hit it, spin it any way you want to!
Straw Oboe: Two lips make sound
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Oboes's unique sound originates from the two small reeds a musician blows into. Make your own double reed instrument out of straw!
Making Music in Nature
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In this activity, learners will explore the ways natural materials can produce sounds. Appropriate for any age, learners can make individual music or create a symphony with others.
Canjo
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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.
Make Your Own Rainstick
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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.
Straw Pipes
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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.
Pipes of Pan
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Create an instrument that you don't play--you just listen to it through tubes of various lengths.
Tube Zither
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing tube zithers, stringed instruments from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
Fun with Flatware: Little Experiments to Try at the Dinner Table
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This is a series of three quick science activities to do with a spoon, knife, and fork. In the first two activities, learners use the flatware to explore optics, mirrors, reflection, and distortion.
Organ Pipe: Get Bach to the fundamentals
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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.
Oboe? Oh, Boy!
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In this activity, learners create a straw oboe to explore sound and pitch.
Make Pan Pipes
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This is a simple activity for learners to create a traditional musical instrument. Pan Pipes have developed all over the world in different cultures, from South America to Greece and China.
Slide Whistle
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In this activity, learners build a slide whistle using PVC pipe, bamboo skewer, and piece of foam. Construction of the instrument is relatively simple.
Torsion Drum
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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.