A blog for music students, teachers, parents and performers. Here you will find music craft tutorials, relevant articles and studies, information for local metro Des Moines music events and performances and much more!
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The Belin Quartet will be playing a free concert featuring music by Antonin Dvorak on Friday
July 25th at 12:15pm at the Des Moines Social Club Courtyard
The AAU Junior Olympics are being held in Des Moines and you can attend the events for an entire day for only $12. Children six and under enter for free. For event location details, click below.
Don't miss the Des Moines Community Playhouse's performance of Shrek the Musical.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click on the picture below.
Good morning! Today I'll be showing you how to make an easy, fun and not too loud music instrument craft. I bet you have most of these materials at home already.
You will need:
Two sturdy paper plates
Scissors
Glue (I used my hot glue gun because I couldn't find just regular white glue)
Ribbon, the thinner the better
A lighter to sear the ends of the ribbon
A single hole punch
Bells
After you've gathered all of your materials, glue two paper plates with the "hollow" sides facing each other. Wait for the glue to dry and flatten out one of the paper plates to make the hole punching easier. Make a few hole punches around the plates (I made seven). To make the tambourine unique, you can paint the paper plates or decorate with stickers.
Cut the amount of ribbons needed to match the holes you made in the plates, in this case, seven. Sear the edges of the ribbons with your lighter so they won't fray. If you'd rather not use a lighter around the kiddos, do this before hand or use a no-fray glue. Thread the ribbon through the bells and then through the holes in the plates.
Here's the finished tambourine a bit bigger.
Now, go on and make some fun tambourine music. Here are some videos to inspire you.
Hi everyone. For this week's musical craft I will be showing you how to make a harmonica using popsicle sticks or tongue depressors.
This is a super fast craft that your children can customize very easily.
Here's what you'll need:
Rubber Bands. I got a bag of colored rubber bands in different size at Dollar General
Popsicle Sticks. These are from Michaels. You can unfinished ones and color them with tempera, markers or spray paint.
Cardstock
Tape
Scissors
First, cut two small squares from the card stock, between 1 and a half and two inches. Fold them three times and stick one piece of rolled tape on each folded square. You want to make sure you have there is tacky part all over as you'll be sticking the paper to both of the popsicle sticks.
You can write your child's name with glitter glue, decorate the sticks with stickers stickers, draw on them or use a stencil.
Stick the squares to one popsicle stick and wrap a large rubber band on the other. Place the stick with the rubber band over the one with the card stock squares and secure the ends by wrapping a thinner rubber band on both ends.
To play, place your mouth on the harmonica with the single rubber band facing up. By pinching the ends, inhaling or biting on the harmonica, it will play different pitches.
Here are some examples of great harmonica playing. Enjoy!
