{"id":1720,"date":"2013-10-09T01:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T06:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2012\/10\/09\/its-international-drum-month\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T01:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T06:22:46","slug":"its-international-drum-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/10\/09\/its-international-drum-month\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s international drum month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2a\/DrumMozartRegiment.jpg\/220px-DrumMozartRegiment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea\">Here are instructions (from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbskids.org\/zoom\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.pbskids.org\/zoom<\/strong><\/a>) for a drum experiment for school age children. Remind them that drums can be played softly too!<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: 19px;background-color: #fffdea\">\n<li>First get a container that you think will make a good drum, like a metal bowl or an oatmeal container. Sylvia says that larger containers make better sounds.<\/li>\n<li>Put double-sided tape all the way around the container 2 inches from the top.<\/li>\n<li>Cut 2 pieces of shrink-wrap big enough to cover the tape on the container. Then, push it onto the tape.<\/li>\n<li>Tape the edges of the shrink-wrap with masking tape so it&#8217;s really secure.<\/li>\n<li>Now blow-dry the shrink-wrap with a blow dryer set on hot. This shrinks the plastic and makes a very tight drum.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure you don&#8217;t put the end of the blow dryer too close to the plastic, or it will melt.<\/li>\n<li>Once it&#8217;s really tight, bang your drum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea\">Now it&#8217;s time to experiment. Try to change the sound your drum makes. Can you make a drum with a really deep sound? Test it out with different containers.<\/p>\n<p>Younger children might like to use a coffee can or oatmeal box as a drum and bang on it along with some lively music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,142,188,279,305,444],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","tag-au-pair","tag-drums","tag-fredericksburg","tag-live-in-childcare","tag-music","tag-stafford"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s international drum month! - Fredericksburg Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s international drum month! 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