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Paper Plate Ocean Drum

March 6, 2021 by Annette Kaminsky Leave a Comment

This DIY paper plate ocean drum can be personalized with a picture of a family member and/or pet.
This DIY paper plate ocean drum can be personalized with a picture of a family member and/or pet.

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Ocean drums are versatile musical instruments that imitate the soothing sound of gentle waves hitting the shore. Your early learner can help create a paper plate ocean drum to make water sounds and will be able to use it in many other ways. The drum can be personalized and will look awesome displayed.

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Supplies To Collect

  • two 9-inch paper plates
  • 9 x 12-inch white cardstock
  • transparency film or clear file folder
  • photo of a child, family, or a pet
  • small beads
  • cinnamon candy hearts
  • alphabet letter beads
  • adhesive gems
  • scissors
  • glue gun
  • glue stick or glue tape

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Making The Paper Plate Ocean Drum

Steps to create a personalized paper plate ocean drum.

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Cut out the middle part of one paper plate.

Print a favorite photo onto cardstock paper. Or use a picture from a vintage calendar or magazine. Trace a 15.5 cm / 6 1/8 inch circle around the part of the picture chosen for the drum. Cut the circle out and use glue tape or a glue stick to paste it on the center of the second plate.

Cut the same sized circle from a clear file folder or sheet of transparency film.

Use a glue gun to attach the clear circle to the cut plate.

Sprinkle cinnamon candy hearts, letter beads, and small round beads onto the photo-enhanced plate. Alphabet letter beads that spell love or the name of a child or pet would work well.

Glue the edges of the two plates together with a glue gun.

If desired, decorate the paper frame of the drum with adhesive gems.

This paper plate ocean drum can be personalized with a picture of a family member and/or pet.

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Playing The Ocean Drum

The crafted drum can be played many different ways, creating a variety of sounds:

Tilt the drum in all directions by rolling your wrist slowly while holding the instrument by its frame. The encased beads and candies will roll over the bottom and mimic the relaxing sound of waves lapping the shore.

Stop and start playing the instrument suddenly to make the sound of crashing waves.

Hold the drum over your head and tilt it.

Move the drum around your body.

Tap the drum gently with a drumstick.

Scrape the drum.

Use the percussion instrument as a shaker.

Make loud, soft, fast, and slow sounds.

Tap or shake a pattern of sounds.

This paper plate ocean drum can be personalized with a picture of a favorite pet.

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Filed Under: art, display, music, ocean, pets, preschool Tagged With: drums, musical instruments, paper crafts, pets

Ice Drum Musical Instruments

February 26, 2021 by Annette Kaminsky Leave a Comment

Easy to set up ice drum musical instruments that can be played indoors or outside any time of the year.
Easy to set up ice drum musical instruments that can be played indoors or outside any time of the year.

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These ice drum musical instruments can be played outside or indoors any time of the year. The musical activities are inspired by the Siberian percussion group Etnobit, who experimented with playing ice on Lake Baikal, the worldโ€™s deepest lake.

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Supplies To Collect

  • food containers (yogurt, sour cream, margarine, etc.)
  • bowls
  • food coloring
  • drum sticks
  • large tub
  • spoons for stirring and drumming

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Making the Ice Drum Musical Instruments

Freeze water colored with food coloring in different-sized food containers and bowls.

When frozen, remove the ice shapes from their molds and place them in a tub. Sprinkle snow in the tub first if it is available. Add drumsticks and objects for striking the ice.

Ice drum musical instruments that can be played indoors or outside any time of the year.

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Playing The Ice Drums

Invite your early learners to experiment with drumming sounds on the ice chunks.

They can tap:

  • fast sounds
  • slow sounds
  • loud sounds
  • soft sounds
  • one slow note/ two fast notes rhythm
  • one loud note/two soft notes rhythm

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The little learners can also tap their own melodies on the ice drums.

Ice drum musical instruments that can be played indoors or outside any time of the year.

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Watch this video to see the percussion group Etnobit playing music on ice slabs.

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Frozen Water Glass Xylophone

Another frozen water musical activity is to fill clear drinking glasses with varying amounts of colored water. Freeze them overnight and then set them on a table in a row. Have your little charges tap the water glasses with drumsticks to make higher and lower notes and experiment with melody making.

An easy to prepare frozen water xylophone for music exploration.

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Filed Under: music, preschool, winter Tagged With: drums, music, musical instruments

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Hi, I'm Annette Kaminsky. I am a preschool teacher who loves to share easy and fun early learning activities. Thanks for visiting my blog. Feel free to stay awhile!

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