Handmade Instruments for Preschoolers | Instruments You Can Make Together with Your Child

Handmade tambourine using 100-yen shop materials

[For 1-year-olds] Handmade musical instrument play

Make it with a one-year-old! Here are ideas for handmade tambourines using materials you can get at a 100-yen shop.

What you’ll need: paper plates, washi tape, air-dry clay, disposable chopsticks, bells, and stickers.

Let’s create handmade instruments together with one-year-old children! The finished instruments can be tambourines or drums, and the charm is that each child can play freely.

It’s adorable to see children freely perform to music with their own original instruments, decorated by cheerfully sticking on stickers.

[Cardboard] Girl’s Den-den Daiko (Hand Drum)

Easy to make! Handmade den-den daiko (Japanese pellet drum)

Recommended for girls! Here’s how to make a den-den daiko (Japanese pellet drum) with braids where the drum strings are.

Cut out a round piece from cardboard for the face and make holes on the left and right with an awl or similar tool.

Thread yarn through the holes and tie knots so it won’t come out; also tie a knot at the midpoint.

Next, thread beads on and tie again so they don’t slip off.

Insert a bamboo skewer as the handle into the gap in the cardboard, and once you draw the girl’s face, it’s complete.

You can also make bangs with yarn, and if you attach white drawing paper to the cardboard, you can even add makeup—sounds fun!

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straw tambourine

[Handmade Toy] An Instrument Even Infants Will Love! How to Make a Tambourine with Paper Plates

You can make one even without bells or cymbals! Here’s an idea for a tambourine made with straws.

What you’ll need: two paper plates, straws, scissors, tape, washi tape, pens, and illustrations.

How about making a tambourine with paper plates and straws and giving it a try? Since you can draw your favorite designs on the paper plates, it’s great to use pens to freely draw and customize it.

Cutting out and pasting illustrations is wonderful too! Give it a try!

tambourine maracas

[Making Instruments with Children] Tambourine Maracas

Let’s make an original instrument! Here are ideas for a tambourine-maracas combo.

You’ll need deep paper plates, double-sided tape or craft glue, jingle bells, ribbons, masking tape, felt, sequins, and other decorative materials.

How about creating your very own instrument with a free imagination? It looks like a tambourine, can be shaken like maracas, and even played like a drum.

This kind of engaging craft nurtures children’s imagination.

Give it a try!

Decorating tambourines is fun

Let's Play with the Rhythm of Handmade Instruments! Plate Tambourine

Here are some fun ideas for decorating tambourines.

You’ll need two paper plates, straws, scissors, tape, a pen, and masking tape.

Put the cut pieces of straw between the paper plates, press them together, and seal the edges with tape and masking tape—that’s it! Use pens in your favorite colors to draw expressions on the tambourine.

It’s also fun to give the front and back different expressions, like a smiling face on one side and a sleeping face on the other.

The simple method makes it easy for kids to follow, which is part of its charm!

Paper Plate Deco Tambourine

[Make and Play♪] Easy! Fun! Paper Plate Tambourine 🎵 #PreschoolCrafts #PaperPlates #Tambourine #Instruments #Shorts

Let’s make your very own special instrument! Here’s an idea for a paper-plate decorated tambourine.

What you’ll need: paper plates, jingle bells, double-sided tape, glue, origami paper in your favorite colors or patterns, and round stickers.

First, fold a paper plate in half and place the bells inside.

Attach double-sided tape along the rim and seal the plate closed.

Finally, decorate freely with origami paper and round stickers, and you’re done! It’s a fun idea that’s safe and easy to make without any tools.

Encourage kids to create freely with their own ideas!

Tambourine you can make with things at home

[Handmade Instrument] Make a Tambourine with Things at Home ♪ A Fun Activity to Do with Kids

Here’s an idea for making a tambourine using items you have at home.

You’ll need a round container from a six-piece cheese pack, jingle bells, string, animal-themed templates, colored construction paper, origami paper, scissors, and glue or double-sided tape.

Even if children don’t recognize it as a musical instrument, this works as a special sound-making toy that infants can enjoy.

The cute animal motifs will spark children’s interest and curiosity.

Let’s make sounds freely and have fun playing along with music and rhythm!