Comments on: Cookie Tin Guitars and Vegetable Orchestras: Unconventional DIY Instruments http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32810 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Cynthia http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32810/comment-page-1#comment-184127 Cynthia Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:57:36 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=32810#comment-184127 I myself am a big DIY fan and I also really like direct recycling. When my son was in elementary school I was a "room mother". One year we did a project making drums out of Pringles cans. We served Pringles for snack for several weeks and saved the cans until we had enough for the entire class and the children each decorated their drums then we had lessons on rhythm and then we had drum circles. It was a great year long project that we tied into several lesson plans, music obviously and art and also lessons on landfills and recycling. Oh, and it was a lot of fun. I myself am a big DIY fan and I also really like direct recycling. When my son was in elementary school I was a “room mother”. One year we did a project making drums out of Pringles cans. We served Pringles for snack for several weeks and saved the cans until we had enough for the entire class and the children each decorated their drums then we had lessons on rhythm and then we had drum circles. It was a great year long project that we tied into several lesson plans, music obviously and art and also lessons on landfills and recycling. Oh, and it was a lot of fun.

]]> By: PartiallyDeflected http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32810/comment-page-1#comment-183996 PartiallyDeflected Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:26:23 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=32810#comment-183996 Wouldn't the cookie tin and Altoids tin "guitars" technically also be dobros. Wouldn’t the cookie tin and Altoids tin “guitars” technically also be dobros.

]]> By: Liz http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32810/comment-page-1#comment-183990 Liz Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:18:49 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=32810#comment-183990 Being a school music teacher and spending this time of year lesson planning, looking for examples of found sounds, this is definitely the exact thing I was looking for. THANK YOU! Being a school music teacher and spending this time of year lesson planning, looking for examples of found sounds, this is definitely the exact thing I was looking for. THANK YOU!

]]> By: Christine http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32810/comment-page-1#comment-183738 Christine Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:42:52 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=32810#comment-183738 You forgot the ever popular propane tank hang drum! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpMS15kJyOY You forgot the ever popular propane tank hang drum!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpMS15kJyOY

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