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Musical Instruments Kids Can Make
Musical Shaker
What to do: 1. Cut 12" lengths of ribbon and use the edge of your scissors to make them curly. 2. Place a hand full of corn, rice, or dried beans on a paper plate and place another paper plate over the plate, front to front. Staple the plates together. Color the outside of the shakers with markers or crayons. 3. Punch holes all the way around the edge of the shaker thread the ribbons through the holes and tie. A pattern for this craft that says, "Praise the Lord!" and has the Bible verse, "Let everything he has made praise him." Psalm 148:5 is available on The Resource Room. Go to the "Praise The Lord" Bible lesson for the pattern. What you will need: Paper towel rolls, paper or Styrofoam bowls, hot melt glue gun, and aluminum foil. What to do:
1. Use a pencil to trace the end of a paper towel roll onto the bottom of the paper bowl. Make a slit all the way across the circle cutting the circle in half. Make another slit the opposite way cutting it in half again. Keep doing this until you have little wedge shapes all the way around the circle.
4. Cut pieces of aluminum foil to fit around the long part of the trumpet. Cut a square piece of aluminum foil for the bowl part of the trumpet. Cut a small circle in the middle. Place the end of the trumpet through the hole in the aluminum and bring the foil all the way up to the bowl and then press the aluminum foil down around the bowl into the inside. Wind a piece of aluminum foil around the handle and secure with tape. Use another piece of aluminum foil to roll up and form a handle. Tape the handle onto the long part or the trumpet. |
What you will need: Heavy duty paper plates, stapler, ribbon, glue sticks, markers or crayons, dried corn, rice, or dried beans, and a hole punch.
Gideon's Trumpet
2. Bend the little wedge shapes out as shown in the picture. 
3. Slide a paper towel tube inside the hole, through the inside of the bowl, until it is almost all the way down to the end of the tube. Place a line of glue all the way around the end of the tube and slide the paper bowl the rest of the way down to the end. Press the wedges to the tube to secure.
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