Make your own Tambourine
Materials
Paper plate or aluminum pie pans
Scissors or hole punchers
Bells, bottle caps
String or twist ties to attach the bells
Instructions
Pierce holes along the rim of the plate.
Attach the bells to the plate using a string or twist ties.
Decorate the tambourine.
Suggested modifications
Use an aluminum pie pan instead of a paper plate. Use the shiny surface to reflect light for children with CVI.
For infants and children with fine motor challenges attach an elastic band to the plate and help your child put their hand through the elastic and grasp the plate
Place metal bottle caps inside to increase sound response.
Play Ideas
1. Explore the different sounds that different motions create.Try tapping, shaking, gently toss and catch.
2. Sing nursery rhymes and practice shaking the tambourine to the tune of the music.
3. Sing the hokey pokey and modify the lyrics to practice:
“shake the tambourine up high, shake it down low… Shake the tambourine fast, shake the tambourine slow.”
4. Use the tambourine for freeze dance: when the tambourine stops, you freeze, when the music starts, dance again.
5. Play the copy game: tap the tambourine in a pattern, repeat the pattern.
Credit: Blind Beginnings, PRCVI, BC Blind Sports, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada
Photo Credit: Photo by Stéfano Girardelli on Unsplash