Cool Cardboard Instruments to Make & Play

Cool Cardboard Instruments to Make & Play
Author: Dennis Waring
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781895569629

Provides instructions to make musical instruments from cardboard, including stringed instruments such as simple guitars and lutes, wind instruments such as flutes, and percussion instruments such as box drums.

Great Folk Instruments to Make & Play

Great Folk Instruments to Make & Play
Author: Dennis Waring
Publisher: New York : Sterling Pub. ; Winnipeg : Tamos Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Instruments de musique - Facture
ISBN: 9781895569438

Instructions on how to build and play over 50 instruments including dulcimer, zither, kazoo, washboard, spoons, rattles, digeridoo, drums, banjo, xylophone, flute and Celtic harp.

Boxitects

Boxitects
Author: Kim Smith
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1328477207

"Meg goes to Maker School to hone her talent for building with boxes, but when Simone, another boxitect, arrives they become so competitive they nearly fail in the annual Maker Match." --

Make Your Own Electric Guitar and Bass

Make Your Own Electric Guitar and Bass
Author: Dennis Waring
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2001
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781895569704

Presents detailed instructions for building a standard 6-string solid body model guitar and bass, using common tools and easy-to-order materials, and providing resources for obtaining electronic components and other hardware. Includes pictures and diagrams of each aspect of the construction: body shape, bridge types, neck and headstock, cutting and shaping, and assembly.

Shh! We Have a Plan

Shh! We Have a Plan
Author: Chris Haughton
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763679771

“A masterful delight, this crafty caper has huge kid appeal and a title/refrain that will easily sneak into the family lexicon: 'Shh! We have a plan.' ” —School Library Journal (starred review) Four friends creep through the woods, and what do they spot? An exquisite bird high in a tree! “Hello birdie,” waves one. “Shh! We have a plan,” hush the others. They stealthily make their advance, nets in the air. Ready one, ready two, ready three, and go! But as one comically foiled plan follows another, it soon becomes clear that their quiet, observant companion, hand outstretched, has a far better idea.

Make Music!

Make Music!
Author: Norma Jean Haynes
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635860350

Music is for everyone — no prior experience required! Make Music! invites kids and families to celebrate the joy of sound with a variety of inventive activities, including playing dandelion trumpets, conducting percussion conversations, and composing their own pieces. Musician and educator Norma Jean Haynes brings the pioneering work of Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff to a new generation of kids aged 5 and up, focusing on the playfulness, spontaneity, and creativity of music. Kids explore rhythm with clapping, body drumming, and intonations. They learn to create found sound with kitchen pots and pans, the Sunday paper, or even the Velcro on their sneakers. And step-by-step instructions show how to make 35 different instruments, from chimes and bucket drums to a comb kazoo and a milk carton guitar.

A Psimple Psaltery

A Psimple Psaltery
Author: Eric Meier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780982246009

"As with any instrument, the bowed psaltery can be as simple or extravagant as you want to make it. In this book, a plan is presented for a simple psaltery. By changing the layout and shape to a basic triangle, and eliminating some of the more intricate steps--along with giving in-depth and thorough directions--building a bowed psaltery is available for just about everyone."--Back cover.

Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make & Play

Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make & Play
Author: Dennis Waring
Publisher: Tamos Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: How to make cardboard instruments
ISBN: 9781895569780

Provides instructions to make musical instruments from cardboard, including stringed instruments such as simple guitars and lutes, wind instruments such as flutes, and percussion instruments such as box drums.

Tinkering

Tinkering
Author: Curt Gabrielson
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1449360971

After-school and out-of-school programs—as well as home schooling—have been growing steadily for nearly a decade, but instructors are still searching for high-interest content that ties into science standards without the rigidity of current classroom canon. The author draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering: learning science while fooling around with real things. In this book, you'll learn: Tinkering techniques in key science areas How to let kids learn science with hands-on tinkering Engaging techniques for science learning at home, in school, or at a makerspace or library Step-by-step instructions for activities that don't end with a single project, but that provide many paths for "tinkering forward".

Cardboard Box Engineering

Cardboard Box Engineering
Author: Jonathan Adolph
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635862140

Cardboard is everywhere! For creative kids aged 9 to 14, it’s the perfect eco-friendly building material, and Cardboard Box Engineering is the perfect guide to get them started on inventive tinkering. A working kaleidoscope, a marble roller coaster, a robotic hand, and a wind-powered tractor with cardboard gears are just some of the ingenious projects developed by Jonathan Adolph, author of the best-selling Mason Jar Science. Working with simple household tools, kids can follow the step-by-step photographic instructions to exercise their design smarts, expand their 3-D thinking, and learn the basics of physics and engineering with activities that have real-life applications.