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In this activity, learners create a traditional Mexican noisemaker (a matraca) using cardboard, craft sticks, and a wooden dowel.

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.

This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

In this design challenge activity, learners build a four-stringed instrument that can play a tune.

This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

From this How To slide show, you create an Audio Tape Bow that can play distorted audio sounds by running it across a tape head.

In this activity (11th activity on the page), learners use pennies to test their hearing acuity.

In this design challenge activity, learners add headphones to a previously built instrument (see "Build a Band" activity) to make it easier to hear.

In this activity, learners build a slide whistle using PVC pipe, bamboo skewer, and piece of foam. Construction of the instrument is relatively simple.

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

Learners design and create musical instruments from common objects; their challenge is to create an instrument that can make three different tones.