The cardboard Strumbox

This is a nice instrument for intoducing children to plucked instruments.

Here's what you'll need:

• shoe box or a strong tissue box
• a large variety of rubber bands.

Here's how you make it:

Make an oval hole in the shoe box lid then stretch the rubber bands around the box so they lie across the oval shaped hole.  On one side, insert a pencil or narrow dowel rod underneath the bands.  This will lift them off the box on one side and will make it sound more resonant.

Strum away!


Idea from Music Makes Your Child Smarter by Philip Sheppard