Homemade Water Drum Instrument

Each instructable below will walk you through the process of making an instrument using common materials.

Homemade water drum instrument. Continue filling each subsequent glass with cup less water than the preceding glass. The second glass with 1 cups of water. You ll likely pop a few in the process of making your drum so it s good to have more than one. Adapt the thickness to the weight of the smaller bowl.

It could be steel plastic wood try with what you. This is a fun craft to act out 11 pipers piping in the twelve days of christmas song. There are even a couple tutorials that use 3d printing and tinkercad to make an instrument. What they re made of don t really matter.

Then to create a rainbow of colorful fun add food coloring to each glass. Make the attachment rings. The instrument shown here is one take on the idea which includes a waterphone style sound body in. Choose large sized sturdy balloons.

Instrument craft making musical instruments music instruments percussion instrument homemade instruments drums for kids drum craft diy drums washi tape diy diy spin drum for kids birthday parties we are so excited to be official contributors at minted s gorgeous blog julep. Get crafty and make your own musical instruments at home. Red pink orange yellow light green dark green blue purple. Fill the first glass with 1 cups of water.

We ve got pipes kazoos guitars drums shakers and more. Next add round items gently into the surface of the water. It s fun to create a homemade instrument like this cardboard flute from jdaniel4 s mom. First take any kiddie pool and fill it with about 1 2 inches of water.

Making a water drum step 1. Choose a deep sturdy container as your base. You can use an old pot a bowl a vase or a bucket. Avoid containers made out of glass or other fragile materials 1 x research sourcestep 2 get a package of balloons.

Last tap them with homemade beaters like an unsharpened pencil wooden spoon or make your own beater by wrapping electric tape around one end of a stick or a wooden dowels. Start by criss crossing tape over the top of the can until it s completely covered to create the head of your drum. Arranging the strings and the body of the instrument in a triangle shape makes this possible. To make a homemade drum you ll need an empty can masking tape construction paper crayons 2 pencils and some tissue.

I chose wooden clothespins to avoid. Cardboard flute diy musical instrument.