Munchkins and Mayhem

Large buttons are brought together with elastic thread to make fun and easy castanets.  Making friends also glues foam onto one end to se...

A disposable tin pie pan turns into a tambourine with the help of markers, jingle bells and pipe cleaners and my cakies. Good for age...

Water is color coded with food coloring to make this nifty water inspired xylophone from meet the dubiens to help kids see the sound. G...

Aluminum pie pans are colored with markers and turned into musical cymbals with crayola. Good for ages 2 and up. Get the instructions...

A wooden y stick, acorn tops and small jingle bells are put together with minieco to make a bell shaker.  Good for ages 13 and up. Ge...

    Happy National Kazoo Day.  Celebrate with one of these kid friendly kazoo making crafts.   Craft scope uses a paper towel ...

Kids will have fun turning ordinary sticks into colorful musical instruments with untrendy life's yarn wrapped jingle bell sticks.  I...

An easy and colorful idea for a cute musical toy is to make mandolins out of embroidery hoops and pretty colored rubber bands.  Hello bee...

A funnel and long tube transform with the help of some duct tape into a play trumpet courtesy of concordia news. Good ages 5 and up. ...

Easy preschool crafts turns paper plates into a tambourine using markers, yarn, tissue paper and popcorn seeds to make the noise. Good f...

El hada de papel has introduces what she calls a rice rattle using a toilet paper tube, tissue paper, rice, glue and rubber bands. Good...

Ikat bag has instructions for making a guitar out of cardboard, rubber bands and a paper tube. Good for ages 8 and up. Get the instru...

Learn 2 grow suggests making wind chimes out of tin cans.  All you need is some paint, tin cans and string.  Kids can have fun painting...

Classic play has a really easy way to create a musical instrument using plastic straws and tape to create a diy pan flute.  The trick i...

Unschool me has a duct tape drum tutorial using a form tube, but you could also probably use an ice cream container from the local ice cr...

Serving pink lemonade has a cute idea for how to make a quick and easy drum. Strip an oatmeal canister of it's lining, add a chevron ...

Kids activity blog shares how to make a drum from a metal can, tape, and balloons.  Make sure to tape the cans really well for sharp edge...

Mess for less has a super simple homemade harmonica using a popsicle stick, rubber bands and construction paper. Good for ages 4 and u...

Art is basic provides instructions for how to make a rattle using a paper plate, beans, paper mache, paper, feathers, paint and other...

A cleverer version of myself shows how turn a kleenex box into a ukulele. Unfortunate the blog is closed to the public but you could con...