Backyard outdoor concert

Children craft instruments from everyday kitchen utensils and put on an outdoor concert.

Steps

1. Conversation: how sound is produced through vibrations and what constitutes a musical instrument.
2. Children choose items: pots, metal lids, wooden spoons, glass bottles filled with water.
3. Bottles tuned with different water levels form a musical scale; children test which sound higher or lower.
4. Groups practice a rhythmic beat and basic melody.
5. Outdoor concert performance for another group or parents.

Tip: Write down rhythm patterns with clear visual symbols: circles for drum beats, dashes for rests.

Materials needed

• Children's percussion instruments (1 set per group)