Making Shakers with Wooden Dowels & Bottle Caps

Part of the Video Series How to Make Musical Instruments for Kids

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Build an instrument with your kids and play together! Learn how to make a shaker out of dowels and soda caps. In this free instructional video, an expert will show you how to make a musical instrument with your child using everyday items around the house.

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Making Shakers with Wooden Dowels & Bottle Caps
Hello I'm Annie Brunson on behalf of Expert Village. We are making musical instruments out of everyday household items. Today you need some bottle caps, you would need some dowel, and a hammer, and of course some nails. You are going to take a medium length nail and you are going to put two bottle caps together. You are going to be hammering them on to the dowel. First of all I'm going to get the bottle cap started. So once you have hammer holes into your caps you take a slightly smaller nail and make sure that it goes through the hole quiet well but, it doesn't actually go all the way through. Now we are going to put the bottle caps onto the dowel. Make sure that the tops are together. Put a nail through and now we are going to hammer that to the dowel. Then you are going to repeat that with two other nails and now we have a nice little shaker.

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Expert: Annie Brunson has a degree in Music and Theater from Bretton Hall and has taught piano, oboe, and middle school band. Read More