everyone welcome back to the rhythm tree
my name is Ryan John a board certified music therapist
here to give you some more great music based special education resources
on today's topic is how to make a great sounding homemade drum
and how to use that drum in a way that will help a child with special needs
work on some developmental skills in a fun creative and motivating way
are in a shared with video clip with you today
it just walks you through how to make a great signing homemade drum
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checking out now years the homely drum so easy to make so cool
and it sounds really good for
and you can you get these cool tunes tones
and just really simple to make and there's so many great
developmental skills you can work into not only making the drum
with a child but also using the term so check out this video clip it's one of
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have a ride
I am going to teach you how to make some homemade instruments
and yes have included his three-set instruments
with the music therapy package it's always fun to expand your repertoire
instruments and making the instruments can be agree
fine motor activity to do with your child so let's start
with homemade rum and all the homie drums and made
this one sounds the best and is also the easiest to me
perfect so we start with are
tomato juice can and
first thing we want to do is have a/c empty and how clean it now
and then can opener takeoff
both ends and when you do that this is this is all to be done without your kids
because there's some sharp edges in the lids are very sharp when you cut them
so don't have your child involved in this step up their activity and once you
take off the lid
and by people that show up on the inside sure going to want to take some
packing tape and just taped inside the lid
especially if you feel any sticky
metal parts up there well alright so we have
art canister and now what we want to do
is make our drumhead with packing tape
so easy cell we take six-and-a-half 27 inch pieces
packing tape and what we do
is free just to take them
across the top wanna pull this really take
can pour on the edges there because the tighter this is
the better the drums gonna sound sorry to take another piece
Canada criss cross it make it
nascent a cool down on those edges
I two more
ken cross
and over calling it down
hey on the entrance and one more
up
and on it down tape
and edges now you have a nice
easy drumhead and if these ever break which really do
you just put in a peace pact packaging tape on super easy
for at your head
and one thing I like to do is make handles
from my instrument to just in case a child doesn't have
the dexterity to hold onto an instrument I like to make
handle so they can slit their hand in it
and all that handle so easy take a five inch piece a duck tape
and we just folded in half
sticky part on the middle and there's a handle
and then with another small piece inductee
me tape it on to the drum
make sure their space for your child's hand
you can redo it it's a little to pay
we've got herself a nice and on and on and then
you can play the drums in Roxas
with a pencil the place apart
and of course you can use are written sticks
here comes the fun part 2 you can decorate the drum with your child
and this is where you can use stickers I love using stickers
because they require a lot of fine motor skills pincer grasp
to grand edge this sticker can get it started for you
for your child if you need to they pull it off
and you can stick in on
last thing I want to mention before we're done is also with the cutting
up the tape this tape and duct tape
using child see scissors you can have your child
help cut the tape in this is a great fine motor skill
it says tripod grass that we use
when you're holding a pencil so it's a great skill to work on
so have fun enjoy your homemade drum
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