According to psychologists, a wonderful idea is to teach a child to music from a very young age. You can either buy a drum in a toy store or make it yourself. A simple tin can and a little imagination can help to easily realize what was intended.
Good or noise?
Many adults believe that there is no use for a baby drum. It is simply a source of noise and accompanies the appearance of a headache. Nevertheless, the drum is often instructed to craft parents with the kids in kindergarten. However, this does not happen for additional workload of the crumbs and the parent on the weekend. Most often, a loud attribute is intended for speaking at a matinee. And you can’t do without it.
Do not think that the manufacture of this item is a waste of time. Who knows, maybe the child has acting abilities, and already in the kindergarten will decide on the future profession. And such an article will bring a lot of benefits, even if it is carried out at the request of the kindergarten teacher.
What to make a tool
In the mass of necessary tips for creating drums with your own hands at home, it is worth highlighting one not quite serious recommendation. It is more likely a comic character, but each joke has its own piece of true meaning. A homemade drum for a child can be used not at all for a matinee. It all depends on the imagination of the parents.
One has only to look around, each person can notice several cans or packages that are unlikely to be useful. Of these materials, you can make a drum for playing with your hands or with special sticks.
Reasons for creating crafts
This question certainly worries all adults. Each parent wants to find out the reasons for this pastime with his child. Examples of reasons for such an activity may be several:
- Rapprochement with the child through joint activities.
- A fascinating start to the evening for the whole family.
- Development of coordination of movements and sense of rhythm in the crumbs. After all, with a craft that was invented and created with your own hands, you can participate in an impromptu march.
- The kid can not easily beat the drum with his chopsticks, and try to reproduce an interesting favorite tune from a children's song or cartoon.
- Hand drums can be an excellent option for occupying crumbs for some time in a summer cottage.
- Finally, the drum can become a weapon of revenge for annoying neighbors who constantly make repairs on Sunday morning.
It is worth considering that the act of retaliation for neighboring apartments can occur without disturbing the peace of adults. To do this, residents of an apartment with a newly-born drummer need to buy a pair of headphones or a pair of headphones in order to muffle the noise in the room.
Plastic bucket with a lid
Not every adult knows how to make a drum with their own hands from a plastic summer cottage. You can paint such a tool with simple paints, it can also be glued with ordinary colored paper. It all depends on the imagination of the little master. The lid on such a bucket should sit tight. After all, the tool will be damaged if the upper part of the tool flies at the most inopportune moment.
The drum from the plastic bucket can simply be held in hands, and can also be hung around the neck. This action is very simple. The material has two holes from the handle on the sides. They need to be threaded through an improvised strap, fixing it with knots.
Sticks for such a plastic tool can be selected from improvised materials. Pencils or old felt-tip pens, which can no longer be drawn, can easily play this role. So, things will be given a second life and the child will be satisfied. Making brushes for the kitchen, which every housewife has, can also make interesting sounds.
A child can try absolutely any object in the apartment to sound, choose the most suitable one. Do not limit the imagination of the future musician or composer. The child must sometimes be given freedom of action.
Paper product
A decorative drum for a little musician can even be created from plain paper or cardboard. To do this, cut two circles of the same diameter. Their size can be any. Then cut a strip of paper, which will become a connecting element for the top and bottom of the tool.
The paper structure can be glued with glue or taped. You can colorize the craft using paints or pencils, glue it with various illustrations from paper, stickers, cover it with bright satin fabric and sew funny pompons on its sides on it. So, children's do-it-yourself crafts will gain their individuality. This part of the work, no doubt, can be done by the little mother's assistant himself.
Almost any idea of a little dreamer can and should be implemented. And for this it is not necessary to run around the shops and spend large sums. Do-it-yourself drums will not only look unusual and original, but will not require much time to create.
Necessary tools and materials
The basis of the craft for the child in this case will be a simple tin can of round shape. Other necessary materials include:
- hole punch for leather;
- a small piece of fabric in bright color (can be replaced with colored paper);
- leather flap;
- glue gun;
- leatherette laces;
- glue for fabric elements;
- cotton wool.
And also in the process of work it will be impossible to do without wooden sticks.
Tool making step by step
At the beginning of the work, you need to cut out a piece of suitable size from bright fabric and glue it with a jar. The fabric can be any. In its absence, the base is simply pasted over with colored paper, which is sold in any stationery store or supermarket.
A jar is placed on a piece of leather material and outlined. 10 cm should be added to the resulting tool diameter. Draw another circle.
The radius of the part with a pencil marks the area where the holes will be located in the future. From the edge, in any version of the manufacture of the drum, do it yourself with your own indent equal to 1 cm. Holes on the skin are made with a special hole punch.
A lace made of leatherette is threaded through the holes obtained. It must subsequently be tightened tightly on one side of the jar. The same steps must be repeated when creating the bottom for making the drum with your own hands. The lace is also used for additional fixation of products diagonally. In this case, the element is threaded under the lacing, which is located above and below the drum.
The final stage is the manufacture of sticks for the drum with your hands at home. To do this, the wooden stick is connected to the bead-knob. A small cotton ball is glued over the beads, wrapped with thread so that there are no empty spaces. So it turns out a drumstick.
Instead of a total
So you can easily create your own drums. Without a doubt, this exciting activity will appeal to the baby. After all, a child at work can act as an apprentice. And creative activities with the whole family will not only contribute to the development of the child’s imagination, but will also favorably affect the imagination and thinking of the crumbs. If a child seeks to create things with his own hands, then this activity should be encouraged by adults, because spending time like this contributes to the development of children, the consolidation of various household skills, and simply brings joy.