How to make a birch xylophone. DIY musical instruments for kindergarten. Bells on a cardboard tube or mallet
A huge contribution to the development of children is made within the walls kindergarten. And music is an important part of it. On music lessons preschool children learn to recognize sounds, sing and dance, learn about new musical instruments. Returning to the group, they most often go about their own business: draw, play with dolls or cars, assemble pyramids or constructors. But why don't you make DIY musical instruments for kindergarten? Children will be able to play a real instrumental ensemble, and at the same time develop their own.
A little theory about homemade musical instruments
The process of creating musical instruments with your own hands is quite painstaking and sometimes requires materials that are not quite usual for a kindergarten: plastic bottles, tin cans, elastic bands for money, buttons and so on and so forth. Involve your parents - for sure, in every house there are such things that are no longer needed. Explain that the guys will develop creatively in the process of needlework and then show off their inventions at the next matinee.
Here are the main points to consider:
- The sounds reproduced by homemade musical instruments most often have nothing to do with those given by real ones. Your task is to show that you can extract different sounds from improvised means. You will improvise. AND appearance Real instruments would also be nice to convey: decor, shape, accessories like a shoulder strap.
- Toys from improvised means often break. Do-it-yourself musical instruments for kindergarten are no exception. Immediately tell the children about the fragility of the products, their special value for your group (after all, they will remain as a memory of each of the kindergarten students).
- All materials must be hypoallergenic and safe.
- Try to come up with tools that the child could make on their own, especially when it comes to preparatory group. It is also better to define the concept initially: these will be the same products for each child, or preschoolers will make tools with their own hands in groups - each group has its own instrument.
Playing music and playing it even in this form will benefit children. Perhaps one of them will discover a real talent or a desire to enter after kindergarten in and already there to seriously engage in their hobby.
DIY musical instruments for kindergarten
Here are a few small workshops on creating interesting and unique musical instruments. You will see, everything ingenious is very simple.
Drum
Any metal or plastic can that is hollow inside can become a drum. You won't find them in kindergarten. But you can ask your parents to bring old plastic jars from mayonnaise, jam or shish kebab. For a variety of sounds, you can take jars of different sizes and wall thicknesses.
Absolutely any are also suitable as sticks. It is important that the tree (if you choose it) cannot injure the hands of children, that is, it should be covered with a special varnish. For example, this role can be played by sticks intended for eating dishes from Japanese cuisine.
wooden xylophone
Do-it-yourself musical instruments for kindergarten are made from the most different materials! If there is an extra plinth, then you can even make a tool out of it. It is enough to cut it into equal segments 10-15 cm long and fasten it with screws loosely to the base daughter. The base must be processed so that the children do not get splinters. Pieces of the plinth are placed in the same position one under the other.
To extract sound from this handmade musical instrument, a child draws any wooden stick from top to bottom. The more solid the stick, the louder and richer the sound will be extracted.
Gusli
The basis can be a shoebox, in the lid of which a circle is neatly cut out slightly offset from the center. Elastic bands for money are wrapped around it or screwed so that all the "strings" pass over the hole. So that the rubber bands do not lie on the surface and can make a sound, they need to be supported with something.
A pencil can serve as a support. However, if you want to raise the “strings” higher, then it is better to make a triangular structure with your own hands, because, as you know, it is the most reliable. Now you can play.
Cookicle
This wind instrument is made from ordinary straws, which are usually offered to children for drinks. It is better not to take those tubes that are attached to juices, because they are small and have a spring for bending in the most inappropriate place. And so, several tubes of the same diameter are taken (they can be replaced with anything: "cases" from pens, sticks from balloons, etc.).
Further, from one of the edges, the second tube is sawn off from below by 1-1.5 cm. The third tube is sawn off twice the distance. Each subsequent one is similarly sawn off so that a kind of uniform ladder is obtained. Then a wide adhesive tape is taken, and the tubes are placed exactly along the edge on it. Then you need to glue it on the back with tape.
If your musical instrument turns out to be large, then it is better to first glue 2-3 tubes separately with small adhesive tape, and only then all together. Do-it-yourself lower holes for a musical instrument for kindergarten need to be closed. This can be done with plasticine, cut off pieces of eraser, or even chewing gum.
Triangle analogue
To recreate the subtle sound from the contact of a metal stick with another metal object suspended in the air, you can take an idea from this musical instrument. For manufacturing, you will need 2 metal tubes, one of which will be hung on any impromptu handle for strong threads. Another child will strike and make a pleasant sound.
maracas
For making do-it-yourself maracas for kindergarten, any hollow oblong container that can be filled with granules, cereals or larger items can be suitable. The easiest option is to take a simple pencil, pierce a Kinder Surprise plastic egg with it and fix it. Peas or rice are placed inside, depending on the desired sound at the output.
Another option is 0.5 ml plastic bottles. Inside you can put unnecessary buttons or the same cereal. Of course, to make the musical instrument realistic, the bottles should be painted, preferably with acrylic paint, to be sure. With filled plastic eggs, you can do the other way: take small plastic spoons and attach them on both sides so that the tips of the base touch. In principle, spoons can be put on glue, but for beauty they can be glued around the perimeter with colored tape.
Those musical instruments that children will make for kindergarten with their own hands will allow them to learn to improvise with sounds, to understand the world through play. After all, even in the store, children are more attracted to those toys that are able to make some sounds, words, glow. Remember that almost everything that surrounds us can become a musical instrument.
For example, take an ordinary empty cardboard box. It is enough to knock on it with your hands or sticks - and this is already a drum. Everything that can be filled with something and moved from side to side is a potential maracas. Do-it-yourself musical instruments for kindergarten are a potential source of individual sounds for staging fairy tales. A loud knock is a clap of thunder or the roar of a wild beast. Rustling paper - it's the wind blowing or falling autumn leaves. Music around us.
With my own hands. Of course, to make a violin or piano without special training, materials, fixtures at home unprepared for this species the master will fail. And this is a fact that should be accepted unconditionally. But how to make fairly simple musical instruments with your own hands - our article will tell those who are interested.
Where to find the source material for crafts
Any object from which sound can be extracted belongs to the musical. And this is almost everything that surrounds us! If you carefully follow the one-year-old babies, it will become clear: the back of an iron bed, when hit with a spoon, makes a melodic ringing, similar to the sound of a metallophone. And if you knock wooden spoons on the table and chairs, you get an amazing likeness
It turns out that we are surrounded by continuous musical instruments! With your own hands, you only need to decorate them in the right way, collect them in one place and plant a “musician” next to them.
Gift for a drummer
For example, a beautiful one is obtained from a set of pots, lids and wooden sticks. Pencils, wooden spoons, brushes are suitable as the latter. You can also carve special sticks for a beginner drummer out of wood.
As you can see from the photo, making these with your own hands is quite simple. For beauty, you can even come up with a special emblem and decorate each item with it. For "plates" fit metal lids, mounted on a stand. By the way, next to the pots, metal buckets, mugs, bowls, basins will get along wonderfully. The main thing in this matter is to choose containers of various sizes that are capable of making different sounds.
Spoon tool
Everyone knows such Russian as spoons. Even solo numbers are practiced, where the performers manage to perform quite interesting compositions.
You can expand the possibilities of spoon musicians by creating an entire installation for them. She needs a wooden matryoshka. By arranging them in ascending order of volume, you can get an excellent tool-installation.
DIY Guiro
Skilled woodworkers can make quite professional musical instruments. Handmade rattles are also of interest to musicians today.
Initially, guiros were made from the fruits of the gourd tree, on which notches were made. Its place of origin is considered latin america. Modern guiros are musical instruments made by hand from solid wood with notches, which should be driven with a scraper called "pua". The musician thus extracts interesting chirping sounds, accompanying singing or performing his part in the orchestra.
Today, this kind of musical instruments appear, made with their own hands from metal or plastic tubes. In Russia, rattles made of notched wooden planks were an analogue of the guiro.
Maracas, shakers - rattles
You can make musical noise instruments with your own hands from a variety of containers. For crafts, metal coffee cans, plastic yogurt bottles, Kinder surprise egg boxes, wooden boxes, and even inner cylinders from paper towels or cardboard toilet paper are suitable. Only the latter need to be sealed at both ends so that something can be put there. A shaker is also made from two disposable cups, gluing them together with adhesive tape.
To create a sound effect, cereals, sand, small pebbles, beads, shot, buttons are placed inside the container. You can attach pens to round containers, paint them acrylic paints. Then you get very beautiful musical noise instruments, which you can build with your own hands from improvised materials.
Castanets
Children are very fond of making a variety of crafts with adults. DIY musical instruments can also be made at home.
You can make castanets using two large buttons to which loops are attached. These devices are put on the thumb and middle fingers. The knock of the castanets at their contact and the sound is extracted.
From absolutely unnecessary things prepared for taking to the trash, you can make quite interesting crafts. Do-it-yourself musical instruments are created by gluing covers onto cardboard pieces, after which the blanks must be fastened together, folding them perpendicular to each other.
Tambourine
Often in children's musical instruments there are bells and bells that ring beautifully. You can hang them on an empty paper towel cylinder or on the edges of disposable plates fastened together. It is best to fold the latter asymmetrically.
By coloring the instruments brightly made in this way, you can use them in a noise children's orchestra.
Whistles and pipes
It's easy and simple to make DIY hands that make sounds when the performer blows into them. They are made from hollow stems of blades of grass, bark of twigs, plastic handles, straws from cocktails. If the latter are cut diagonally at different lengths, then you can get whistles that make a different sound.
Whistles are also obtained from the pods of beans, peas or acacia. In childhood, everyone at least once, but "played" such a musical instrument.
Craftsmen make pipes out of wood by cutting holes in hollow tubes. But here special skill is required. No less difficult - and just as interesting! - make a whistle-toy out of clay or salt dough. Usually, a variant of the "Dymkovo" toy is used here. Although you can make a little thing by hiding a ready-made whistle inside. Having made several of these toys that make sounds of different pitches, you can even play some melodies on them.
You can make homemade musical instruments with your own hands from almost nothing. Here, for example, is a cap from a plastic bottle, on which a piece of rubber cut from a burst balloon, will become a fascinating toy for the child.
You can also use empty vials as a whistle. If you blow into the inlet from top to bottom, applying the container only to lower lip and holding it vertically, you can make amazing sounds! The musicians change the inclination of the “instrument”, the distance between the lips and the opening of the bubble, the force of blowing air, and various melodies are born into the world.
"Litrofon", or "singing bottles"
Today, more and more often, performers with such interesting instruments come on stage that you can only wonder! And from what only they do not make them! You can make it yourself, for example, from bottles or wine glasses, filling them with water.
Different heights of emitted sounds are achieved due to the amount of liquid being poured, the material for making dishes, and changing the volume of the container. The less water is poured, the thinner the sound. For beauty and convenience, the liquid is tinted.
Harp, or "musical comb"
Taking an ordinary flat comb (“hedgehog” will not work), you need to cover the location of the teeth with foil or tissue paper. By blowing into this simple instrument, you can make cool rattling sounds.
Talented musicians from the stages perform various musical compositions on the harp, up to classical ones. Particularly interesting is this tool, made from a comb with different thicknesses of teeth.
The main theme of Oginsky's "Polonaise" or the melody of a folk song/hit come out surprisingly similar to the original!
DIY guitar
This is truly amazing! But you can even make a guitar with your own hands from improvised materials, but simply from rubbish.
Closed cardboard boxes, empty flat plastic shampoo bottles are taken as the basis. Of course, the sound of the instrument will depend on the material of the guitar frame and the size of the hole cut in it.
It is also important to choose the right strings for the guitar. Most often, they take clerical or aviation rubber bands and pull them with different strengths.
So now you do not need to run to the children's toy store if the baby is capricious. After all, you can simply make an exciting toy for him - a musical instrument that will become the most beloved and expensive thing for the child.
One of the most favorite toys of children is, of course, a musical instrument with metal strips, which is commonly called a glockenspiel! It is not at all necessary to purchase such a toy in a store, it can also be made with your own hands at home. This article will detail how this can be done.
Necessary materials and tools for creating a metallophone:
- bar wooden size 60*2*3.5 centimeters;
- a wooden block measuring 32 * 2 * 1.5 centimeters;
- a piece of metal measuring 200 * 3 * 0.4 centimeters;
- self-tapping screws measuring 16 * 3 mm;
- varnish for wood with a glossy effect;
- four screws of 5 centimeters.
First stage.
First, eight parts of various sizes must be cut from a piece of metal. In shape, these parts should be trapezoid. The maximum length of the first element should be 15 centimeters, and the minimum length should be 10 centimeters. This will need to be taken into account in the process of cutting metal plates. In addition, each detail must be reduced by 1-2 centimeters. Then, when the metal components are completely ready, you will need to drill holes in them for attachment, and then sand the sides and the entire surface as a whole.
For the comfort of work, all templates of parts can be prepared in advance and transferred to the metal surface.
Second phase.
Then, each wooden block needs to be cut into two pieces. In the end, you should get two elements of 30 centimeters each, as well as two more elements with a length of 15 and 17 centimeters.
Third stage.
After that, using self-tapping screws, you need to fasten the metal parts to two wooden bars of 30 centimeters each.
Fourth stage.
Then, the wooden cross pieces, with the help of large screws, need to be attached to the two side wooden components.
Fifth stage.
Then you need to unscrew all the screws and paint the metal parts in the desired colors. Then you need to let the paint dry completely.
Sixth stage.
After that, all the painted parts of the metallophone will need to be attached back to the base of the wooden musical instrument, but following a clear sequence: wooden base, flat washer, metal part, self-tapping screw.
Seventh stage.
Then you need to completely cover the created musical instrument with spray varnish. In this case, the varnish must be applied in a thin layer.
After the varnish is completely dry, the musical instrument can be used.
You can make a wooden xylophone with your own hands. In total, it will cost us only 400-500 rubles, which must be spent on paper clips, nails, ropes and other improvised materials.
Step 1: Measurements
In total, 9 wooden blocks will be required as 9 notes. The longest is 91 cm. Each subsequent bar should be 5 cm less than the previous one. We get: 91 cm, 86 cm, 81 cm, 76 cm, 71 cm, 66 cm, 61 cm, 56 cm, 51 cm.
We cut the bars according to these sizes and clean them with sandpaper.
Step 2: Assembly
We mark the middle of each “note” with a marker. For a 51 cm bar, we put 2 marks, 5 cm above and below from the center. In these places we must insert the rope and attach it with nails or paper clips. For a bar of 56 cm, we mark 7.6 cm from the center (difference 7.6-5 \u003d 2.6 cm). We do the same for the rest of the “notes”, adding 2.6 cm to the previous figure.
The distance between the bars should be 1.3 cm.
Step 3: Play
We find a suitable place where you can hang the xylophone and pull the rope with the "notes" tightly. Note that the angle of the suspended instrument will affect its sound.
IRINA YUDAEVA
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This article is intended for caring parents and creative educators. (probably just for you).
Do you know the moments when your children follow you "on the heels", do not allow you to do household chores, distract from interesting book Or from watching a movie? I think every adult has moments like this from time to time.
Get distracted! Devote your precious time to the most precious thing you have - your children! I promise, if you manage to find an interesting activity - the pleasure is guaranteed not only for the kids, but also for you!
I bring to your attention an interesting lesson - the manufacture of the simplest musical instruments(or sounding toys) from improvised (or even junk material).
How to find the source material for crafts? Any object from which sound can be extracted belongs to musical. And this is almost everything that surrounds us! If you carefully follow the one-year-old babies, it will become It's clear: the back of an iron bed, when hit with a spoon, makes a melodic ringing, similar to the sound of a metallophone. And if you knock wooden spoons on the table and chairs, you get an amazing likeness of a drum kit!
So, let's start with the selection required material. These can be boxes, jars of yogurt and creams, cardboard tubes from paper rolls, tubes and juice boxes, hair sticks and combs, bottle caps and much more. Show resourcefulness and imagination!
Pretty good "dig" in kitchen cabinets, furniture shelves and other "nooks and crannies" apartments. Gather possible crafting material tools.
Think about which one tool can be made from this material.
Remember: Don't try to do everything yourself! Let your baby participate in the manufacture of the toy - pour grain, large beads or beans into it. Show the child how it is done (perhaps you will get it more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing - even, most likely, it will be so, but this is not the main thing)
Prepare with your child the necessary equipment to fulfill your idea (glue, scissors, pliers, awl
or something else)
Be patient and good mood! You can turn on the fun music to tone and stimulate creativity. So let's get started!
Shakers (noisemakers) or maracas.
This is perhaps the easiest musical(noise) tool. It can be made from containers for shoe covers, jars of cream or yogurt, all kinds of boxes. The filler can be any cereal or beads. Paper clips or even screws will also work (it is important to remember that small parts carry a certain danger - for some reason, small children often tend to put them in their noses. Remember this and do not leave children unattended, explain to them in advance that this cannot be done).
Step 1. We take jars with lids (tin and plastic ones, if any, then wooden, birch bark and clay vessels with lids, kinder surprises or containers for shoe covers are also suitable). Then we fill them with different fillers: millet, buckwheat, lentils, peas, beans, beads. We fill different jars to different heights (for 1/4 volume, for 1/2 volume, for 2/3 volume or whatever you like).
Step 2. Close the lid tightly. We try the sound of the resulting shaker or maracas blank with the children. We try to add a filler or, conversely, remove it to get the desired sound.
Step 3. When the desired sound is received, close the lid tightly (or even glue). Pasting tool colored paper or colored tape (the baby can help you cut strips for decoration or choose braid). Decorate tool as you wish with your child. Can be attached to any holder (even with a plastic spoon, it will be more convenient to use it). It is more interesting if you decorate the jars in different ways. It can be braid, and stickers, and paper appliqué, and patterns drawn with gouache and then varnished on top for durability.
Maracas is ready!
« musical slingshot»
Step 1. We select a suitable horn, beads (caps) and wire.
Step 2. Making holes in the lids (this should be done by an adult using, for example, an awl)
Step 3. Between the two "horns" we stretch the wire on which metal plugs or beads are placed (Great rattle when shaken).
Musical the slingshot is also ready!
"Spoon with pendants".
Step 1. We take an ordinary wooden spoon, along the edges of which (at a distance of 0.5-1 cm) punching holes.
Step 2. We insert long threads into the resulting holes, one end of which is fixed with a knot or piece of beads. On a thread at a short distance from each other we string pistachio shells (or something else). Depending on the intensity of the swing « tool» imitates "sound of the surf", "rustle of leaves" and so on.
"Nut Castanets"
Step 1. We take a thick sheet of paper or a piece of cardboard, cut out a small rectangle, fold it in half.
Step 2. On each inside glue along the edge (preferably with glue "Moment", double-sided tape is also suitable) walnut shells opposite each other (you can replace them with metal or plastic lids from bottles). At "closing" tool makes sounds of varying volume.
Step 3 outer part Covers are colorfully decorated depending on your tastes and preferences of the child.
"Sounding and Tailed Cup"
Step 1. We stretch a regular rubber band vertically onto a small yogurt cup (in this case, part of the gum passes through a hole previously made in the cup).
Step 2. From the side of the bottom, glue to the elastic "tail"- long colored strips of light fabric, paper, etc. « Tool» used for various goals: If you pull and release the elastic band quickly, a sharp short sound will appear, which helps children to feel the rhythm or "announces" pause in movement. In addition, the child can use "tailed cup" for the performance of dance movements, and the use of this « tool» he invents himself.
"Hanging wooden xylophone".
Step 1. Select round wooden sticks different lengths and diameter (you can use colored pencils - it looks very nice).
Step 2. Hang them to a horizontal surface (for example, to a stationery ruler).
This homemade xylophone can be used for spontaneous or rhythmic onomatopoeic improvisational games: woodpecker, squirrel, horse, using for musical and"plot" development means such as tempo (acceleration, deceleration, dynamics, method of sound production. With such sounds, children accompany the performance in the puppet theater with pleasure, but with indescribable pleasure they will move themselves - like a squirrel or a horse.
"Bottle Xylophone".
Step 1. Glass bottles hanging on ropes to any horizontal surface.
Step 2. Fill them with different amounts of water.
Step 3. We beat them with some suitable object. Since the volume in the bottles is different, the sounds are different. Very positive and cheerful tool, (especially for adults).
"Gusli".
Step 1. Choosing the right box (can be shoes).
Step 2. We put elastic bands on the lid and compose our work!
"Sounds of the rain".
This is perhaps the most difficult to manufacture tool(but also the most interesting). To you required:
Cardboard long narrow cylinder (for example, from under the foil).
toothpick packaging,
Nippers or sharp scissors
Glue (glue gun, paper, paints and scissors for decorating the finished tool.
Step 1. We make a tube (you can take a piece of dry hogweed stem).
Step 2. We take an awl and a tube from under the foil and pierce one hole near the edge of the cardboard roll with an awl. We insert a toothpick into this hole until it stops against the opposite wall of the cylinder.
Step 3. We retreat 1-2 cm and make a new hole and also stick a toothpick into it. Next, we make holes in the spiral of our cylinder. The spiral passes inside the entire cylinder and forms barriers in it, through which the cereal will pour, making a noisy sound. It turns out that as if inside our cylinder - spiral staircase from toothpicks.
Step 4. So the spiral is ready inside the cardboard roll. We take wire cutters or sharp scissors and cut off the excess ends of the toothpicks from the surface of the cylinder.
Step 5. We seal one end of our cylinder - a tube. We are waiting for the glue to dry.
Step 6. We put the tube with the glued bottom down. And we pour cereal into it. We listen to the sound. Close the open end with the palm of your hand (so that the cereal does not get enough sleep) and turn over tool very gradually upside down. We listen to the sound.
The sound will depend on the filler - try different fillers. If it is buckwheat, then the sound is more abrupt, if it is flax seeds, then the sound is more "solid". Find the sound that you and the children will like and suit you.
Step 7. Now you can seal the second hole in our base pipe.
Step 8 Decorate our rain noise. It can be pasted over with paper, cloth, cord, painted with gouache and varnished on top.
We play on the noise of the rain as on the noise instrument, and not like on the drum. That is, you do not need to rhythmically shake it or hit it. It is necessary very slowly and gradually, without hurrying anywhere, very carefully and gradually turn over tool at one end, then the other end up. Precisely slowly and gradually!
Exercises with children's homemade tools
Option 1. Rhythmically accompany any melody or arrange a noise orchestra.
Option 2. musical sketch. Accompany with noise sounds a story or a fairy tale (a horse gallops - these are castanets, it's raining- this is the sound of rain, thunder - a drum, desert and rustling sand - maracas, spring drops or it's raining - musical glasses or cups, etc., history, natural phenomenon, event. So you can improvise with the texts of many fairy tales and poems. You read the text of a fairy tale and point to a certain tool. The child thinks how tool transmit the given event or word.
If you are playing with a group of children, you can give them different tools. And show with your eyes what tool now enters into a fairy tale. Then the game will also be useful for the development of children's communication skills.
Option 3. Song by couplets. In each new verse of the song, a new group enters. tools.
Option 4. Song with an orchestra. One plays in the first verse tool, in the second it is joined by the second tool(both sound tool, in the third - the third tool and so on until you get a full orchestra (all our musical instruments play) .
Best suited for these musical improvisations of the songs of the peoples of the world.
Option 5. Dialogue without words. Try to talk to each other with sounds tools. Convey joy, sadness, grief, surprise and other states, as well as various events using sounds homemade musical instruments. Change the rhythm, the volume of the sound tools.
Option 6. Echo game. You need to repeat the rhythm after the leader on your instrument. The game is also useful for the development of auditory attention and speech of kids.
Option 7. Playing in a circle "Attention". Everyone sits in a circle in a clearing or on chairs in a room. The leader sets the rhythm and all players repeat it for their instruments. Then suddenly the leader changes the rhythm - you need to replace this and adjust to the leader. Another version of this game - the presenter changes the volume of the sound.
Option 8. Fairy tale with tools. The children are given musical instruments. Can one child give 2-3 tool. Agree in advance what each character will represent in the fairy tale. tool. For example, the sound of rain is the word "rain", spoon strokes - steps, etc. You improvise - tell a short story in which these words occur. As soon as the player hears "own" word - he must enter the text of your story with the sounds of his tool: make some noise with the sound of rain, depict the creak of an opening door, the steps of a cat and other events that you have planned in advance. Do not look for a ready-made story - compose on the go.
The main thing in games with musical toys made with your own hands -
this is the development of the child's ability to listen to the peculiarities of their sound, to convey a different rhythm, different emotional condition with their help, be creative in their use. And also experimentation - what will change if you change tool - its length, filler and other characteristics.
Manufacturing musical instruments with children with their own hands- it is very interesting, exciting and exciting! I wish you interesting creative games! And inspiration for musical improvisations with children!
