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Make your own speaker with a magnet, wire, and paper cup! If you have a radio with a headphone plug and an old pair of headphones, this is a great tinkering activity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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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!

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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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.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 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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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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Do you have an extra portable cassette tape player hanging around?

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes