Recycled musical instruments

Name: Arabella

On Thursday we are going to share our packaging.  Everyone at Carew is going to make something out of recycled things.   Room Two are making instruments.  I have a chime.

How to make a chime

1.    Get a big cardboard tube

2.    Tie some length of string around some nails.

3.    Make the sure that the nails are evenly spaced along the cord.

4.    Thread the ends of white string through the cardboard tube.

5.    Tie them together at one end.

6.    Get a bolt and tap on the nails.

7.    Congratulations you have made it!

Name: Satevah

How to make a drum

1.    Get a baby can of baby food.

2.    Drill a hole in the sides.

3.    Thread the string through.

4.    Put paper mache over the tin.

5.    Paint it or spray paint.

6.    Decorate it.

7.    Get a stick or knitting needle and that’s how you make a drum.

8.    Thank you for waiting.

Name: Gian

I made a guitar.

I made it out of cardboard boxes.

First I got an oblong box and then I cut a hole in the end of it.

Next I sellotaped a long skinny box in the hold to the arm.

Then I sellotaped a small box on the other end.

Next I put a hole shaped like a circle in the middle.

Name: Jayden

We made our instruments for our singing about “Little Boxes” We are singing at the hall and I put paper on my

Drum. I put glue and then spray paint on my drum.  It is for our concert on Thursday night time for our parents.

Name: Shelby

How to make a drum

1.   First you get a box

2.   Then we paper mache it.

3.   Spray paint it gold.

4.   Decorate it.

5.   You play it.

Name: Sophie Leigh

What you will need to make a drum

1.   You will need a can of baby powder (probably empty)

2.   Paper mache the tin.

3.   Spray paint it.

4.   Decorate it.

5.   Drill 2 holes on each side of your drum.

6.   Put a piece of string through the holes.

Name: Solomon

1.   First I got a Milo box.

2.   Next I got cardboard.

3.   I sellotaped my cardboard to the box.

4.   Everyone wants spray paint so we did it outside.

Name: Alana

How to make a drum

1.   You get a box that is strong.

2.   Paper mache the box.

3.   Spray paint it silver or gold.

4.   Decorate it however you want with things and stick them on with a glue gun.

5.   You play it.

Name: Daniel

Making a Drum

First I got a tin.

Then I put paper on it.

Get some string.

Put on some spray paint.

Name: Islay

Making a shaker

My instrument is as silver as a river when the sun is shining.  I like it because it is as colourful as a rainbow and it makes a big sound.  If you make a chime you might not get a good sound.  It will make a quiet sound so you might need a big metal thing like a spoon.

My instrument is a shaker. The shaker makes a big sound.  The sound it makes is very loud like jumping beans jumping on a hill or like popcorn in a pot. If you make a guitar you will use fishing line but it is best to use rubber bands because fishing line is loose.

I made a shaker because I thought it would be easy.

Name: Jivarn

What you use to make a guitar

1.    Get a box or a cereal box.

2.    Stick a glad wrap box on the cereal box with Sellotape.

3.    Then put paper mache on the guitar.

4.    You can spray paint or paint it.

5.    Put string or a rubber band on your guitar.

Name: George

How to make a guitar

1.   Get a cereal box.

2.   Get a long present wrap cardboard tube.

3.   Join it together with Sellotape.

4.   Get paper and put it over with glue.

5.   Spray paint it with gold.

6.   Get green orange coloured paper

7.   Then cut like a snake, or fire, or stars.

8.   Get the hot glue gun and stick on the decorations.

9.   Play it.

Name: Grady

On Wednesday we made instruments.   We paper mache our bottles and spray painted it and we decorated it.  We had a band practise and we did it again today.

We cut out decorations and glued them on to the bottles. We covered the bottles with paper mache and spray painted it and let it dry.  After that we were finished.

Name: Julian

1.   I got a box.

2.   We put paper mache on it.

3.   Then we spray-painted.

4.   Then we decorated it.

Name: Logan

I got a bottle and pva glue.

I put paper on it to make it hard.

Then we painted it.

To make it cool we put streamers on it.

Name: Amber

1.   I got a cereal box and a cardboard tube.

2.   Tape them together very hard.

3.   Put paper mache on top of the box to cover it.

4.   Put glue over the top of the other pieces of paper.

5.   Paint or spray paint your guitar.

6.   Then decorate it however you want.

7.   I put fluffy balls on the guitar.

8.   Get rubber bands and put it on the guitar for strings.

Mastagard Recycle Centre Visit

Room 2 visit to Mastagard

Thanks to the staff at Ashburton Mastagard!

 We went to Mastagard to look at all the stuff.  I heard the bottles smashing.  There were big machines and lots of tubs and lots of rubbish.  I had great day.  The seat was made out of straw and concrete.

 By Jivarn

 Room 2 all raced to the bus to go to Ashburton and we 

 went to Mastagard. We saw a sofa and we smelt milk.  The    

 loader squashed the milk bottle broke, the milk came out!

 The bus came with the rubbish in it, claws crushing.

We went to school again, it was fun.

 By Logan

 I woke up at 6:00.  Then I am going on the bus, we are at school.  I almost forgot, we are going to Mastagard.  We are in Ashburton - yay!  We are going to the playground.  I went in the mouse hole and it was as swirly whirly like a wind.  Then we went to Mastagard and I heard machines crashing and crunching.  It was as noisy as waves crashing at the beach. 

 By George

We played on the mouse wheel and a big blue climbing thing and on the monkey bars and on a swing.  Solomon fell off the blue climbing thing.  In the shop there were lots of great things like knitting needles and they all come from recycling. 

We all went to Mastagard and I saw big forklifts and bottles and old computers and printers.  I heard glass smashing against the hard hard barrel made out of wood.  I also saw big machines that crashed recycle stuff and tied up the cardboard and plastic.  The forklifts lifted the plastic and the cardboard.  We all got a picture when we got to school.  I am looking down at at the stones in the picture, it was funny.

 By Amber

We went to Mastagard and we saw the crusher.  We heard thumps, bangs and booms.  Just before we went back to school we sat on the straw couch.

 By Alana

 I saw glass falling like rain.  Brent showed us the chairs. Brent said “ What do you think the chair is made of?”

 Daniel said “straw” and he got the answer right.

 By Solomon

 Wahoo! Room Two get to go to Matsagard.  We are learning about packaging, so we decided to go.  I wish you could go too.  Some people from Mastagard took us around.  I could hear the glass smashing, I could see the loader picking up all the rubbish.  Before we went to Mastagard we went to the Ashburton domain.  The photo on the front is Miss taylor, she is on a crazy swing.  She looks red in her face, doesn’t she? and smiley!  Some people went in the mouse house, that was very noisy and lots of people screamed

“ahh!”   

By Arabella

 “Beep, beep, beep” the bus dumps the cans, bottles and cardboard into groups and they told us to move out of the way as they tip the plastic over to other boxes.  The glass was smashing.  It was fun.  I saw the bus dropping down the recycle stuff.

 By Grady

Thanks to the mums who came to help! :)

The loader was really noisy, that was cool and it was pushing the rubbish.   We had a great day today and I heard the bus at Mastagard at Ashburton.  I was with my class and I was far away from school.

 By Jayden

 We went to Mastagard early in the morning.  First we went to the park and we had lots of fun a the play ground and after that we went to Mastagard and I heard a forklift and saw a forklift.

 By Daniel

In the morning Room Two went to Mastagard.  We saw a bus full of yucky stuff.  Then we saw glass bottles.  They were so loud, it went “boom, boom!” like a gun shooting a deer.

 By Satevah