diy drum set

Yesterday we had fun making our own drum set.  M loves music and making noise so he had a lot of fun with this activity and is still enjoying it this morning.  I took four cylindrical containers that have plastic tops.  The ones I used were breadcrumbs, an empty Crisco container, two different size Gerber snack containers.  I placed them together and then taped around them to keep them together.  I also taped around the top of the breadcrumbs container because it still had breadcrumbs in it and I could definitely see where that would lead.

Once they were together we got two wooden spoons and started playing.  One thing that would be neat to set up an older child to find out would be that the breadcrumbs container had a different sound because it was full.  You could even then empty it to test it.  M didn't really care, he was too busy....

This morning M got the drums on his own and started playing.  He tipped the whole thing over and started playing on the bottoms of the containers (3 out 4 are metal).  That was louder than the tops and he loved it.  He seemed surprised when he first figured it out, which was neat to see.

Why we loved the DIY Drum Set....

Baby: it made noise and he got to hit things with sticks

Mommy:  music appreciation :) I think this would be a good activity to do again when M is 3 or 4 when we can make the set together and then try different things to make different sounds.

M's age when we played: 11 months, 1 week