Tune up a milk carton guitar and get ready for a kitchen concerto in the key of utensils major! Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff offer dozens of ideas that encourage children to unlock their musical creativity using everyday objects. Kids will be inspired as they turn a shower hose into a trumpet or pair zippers and Velcro to make their own percussion ensemble. With ideas for creating and playing more than 70 basic rhythm, string, wind, and keyboard instruments, the musical possibilities are endless.
Beginning Notes
Kitchen Things That Ring and Ping
Scrapers & Rasps
Guiro
Names & Notation
Fruit Salad
Crying Water Bowls & Cooking Pots
Pot Cover Cymbals
Clock Music: Opus 1
Bells -- Chimes -- Triangle
Glass Harmonica
Tambourine
Maracas: Rattle & Clatter
Rainstick
Thimble Fingers & Tapping Gloves
Clave & Rhythm Sticks
Jingling Johnny
Castanets & Clappers
Tongue Drums
Drum Improvisations
Mallets
Playing the Room
Percussion Conversations
Canons & Rounds
Talking Drums
Hardware Orchestra
Conduit Pipe Xylophone
Wooden Xylophone
African Thumb Pianos
Bugles & Horns
Random Pipes
Flutes & Whistles
Shepherds' Pipes
Dandelion Trumpets
Window Wind Harp
Board & Box Zither
One-String Box Bass
Bushman's Bow -- Lyre
Milk Carton Guitar
Plucking Fiddle
Musical Saw
Conducting an Orchestra
Kitchen Concerto
A Pre-Hispanic Orchestra
Paper Orchestra
Clock Music: Opus 2
Clock Music: Opus 3
Soundscapes
Velcro-Zipper Duet
Single-Note Compositions
Orchestrating
Clapping and Body Drumming
Family Fun
End Notes
Resources
Index
"?a teriffic resource, not just for helping kids create their own instruments, but also for teaching the youngsters what to do with them." - Salt Lake City Tribune
"Not only does the book provide good information for instruments to make and give, it tells children how to create instruments from everyday objects around the house." - Florida Times-Union
"?Wiseman and Langstaff invite children to explores the world of music by showing them how to create their own instruments and rhythms." - School Library Journal
