Autumn Homework Project [1] - Instruments

During the Autumn term, one of our science topics in Year 5 is “Changing Sounds!”, a topic based on musical instruments, how sounds are made, change in pitch and travel through the air.

Your homework project this half term is to make a working musical instrument that you can play and that changes pitch.

Remember that there are lots of different types of instruments that make sounds in different ways:

· String instruments - plucking, hitting or strumming

· Percussion instruments - banging or hitting

· Wind instruments - blowing

However, you need to be able to change the pitch of the instrument - it needs to be able to make either a higher or lower sound than the one that it initially produces.

Here are some websites that you can check at home to help you come up with ideas:

http://www.persil.co.uk/get-messy-with-music-instruments

http://www.redtedart.com/2012/10/15/musical-instrument-crafts-for-kids/

http://www.thecraftycrow.net/2011/07/homemade-musical-instruments-for-kids.html

Remember that you can decorate your musical instruments to help make them bright and colourful and stand out!