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Summary: Learn how to make shakers as homemade musical instruments for children in this free music lesson video from our professional musician and experienced music educator.
J.D. Keating is a musician, artist and educator from Western Massachusetts. For two decades he has lent his varied talents to innumerable projects in the music industry. In 2003 he...read more
"When we're making our shakers, like I said, we are doing it from recycled products because our theme is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. I simply take paper and glue it to a paper towel tube and that makes a nice surface for the kid's to draw on and to get involved artistically as well as in an audio sense. We can hear. So, all you do is cap the ends, and on top of this they use this as pretty good boppers too. So they work as shakers and as drum sticks. So these are the shakers. And of course you can use toilet paper rolls. Just about any kind of paper product that you can use, duct tape, glue, some crayons. You have a rainy day all set. Shakers, how to build them."