• String
  • keyboard
  • woodwind
  • brass
  • percussion

Create an Ecomusic Masterpiece

Garden hose horns? Yogurt pot drums? Make your own musical instrument out of everyday materials and you find at home!

Here’s a few ideas on materials to help get you going…see if you can design your own instrument!

Ecomusic materials

The following materials might be useful:

  • Glue – gluesticks
  • Scissors
  • Decorations – googly eyes, stars, glitter, whatever you like!
  • Felt tip pens, markers, crayons
  • Beads
  • String
  • Rice
  • Tape
  • Balloons
  • Straws
  • Stanley knife (to be used only by adults!)
  • Tin foil

Materials – recycled

  • Garden hose
  • Plastic bottles of all sizes
  • Yogurt pots
  • Toilet tubes
  • Cardboard boxes
  • Elastic bands
  • Anything else that is child-safe and durable