Age Group

Preschool
Kindergarten

Supplies

recycled water bottles with ridges, stickers, permanent markers, beads, seeds, glitter, salt, pebbles or unpopped popcorn for filling up the bottle,  unsharpened pencils or chopsticks

Description

Creating a simple guiro can be a fun way to share Latin-American culture, a bit of Spanish language, and music-making skills at the same time. A guiro is any small percussion instrument that has ridges which are scraped or rubbed creating rhythmic patterns.

The craft project (see link below) shows you how to make one from an unsharpened pencil, a recycled water bottle (with ridges) and some string or other decorating material. It’s easy, fun and sounds great! You can see, hear and color a guiro as well at the link below.

SEE, HEAR OR COLOR A GUIRO:
www.dariamusic.com/guiro.php

MAKE A GUIRO INSTRUCTIONS:
www.dariamusic.com/make_Guiro.php

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Award-winning children’s performer, DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has five cd’s that have won national honors. She has the most awesome job of traveling the world to sing for kids and peace. Her website; located at dariamusic.com, was given a 2009 Parents Choice Award for its musical and cultural content. Read more about Daria. Images used here with permission from Daria.
 

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