Today was Library day again!

This time it was not a scheduled event exactly, but stations set up with activities.

 

First station was toilet paper tube kazoo making!

It was pretty simple. You just take a toilet-paper tube. Decorate it however you wish. (They had markers available, but you could use anything.)

Use a hole-punch to punch several holes from the top of the tube. Then cover the holes with wax paper and rubber-band it on tightly. Trim the paper.

I'll be honest here, we never got this to work properly. Im planning on looking up directions online and seeing what was missing. You put your mouth to the open end and hum, and experiment with covering the different holes. The instructions were super simple, and I'm wondering if an important step was left out... That's life, isn't it? It doesn't always work out as planned...

Next station was going to be tambourine making!! We were super excited, but they were out of paper plates, so we had to be satisfied with looking and remembering the instructions for later...

After looking at that, we moved on to the 'Shaker' station! They had many ideas of how to make shakers, but the only materials they had available were for water-bottle shakers. Water-bottle shakers, it is!

A couple other shaker ideas with plastic easter-eggs:

The kids had a blast filling their shakers with mixtures of rice and beans, and even a few sequins. Not sure the sequins were supposed to be use for the INSIDE of the shaker, but oh well!

The beans probably were not for the outside of the shakers either, but we do what we want!

Speaking of beans, my youngest Squid asked me to take this photo and say, "Something here does not belong, can you spot the impasta?!"

Some finished musical fun stuff!

My oldest son, who was not particularly interested in making a shaker, was happy to sit there and use plastic spoons to drum on the lid of the bean container.

My youngest found a book in one of his favorite series that he hasn't read yet and was super excited to read it while his sister finished up her shaker.

It was a fun trip. ♥ We finally finished up our crafts and were able to check out our books and head to the next stop, the thrift store! We donated some old things, shopped around, and then headed to the feed store to get food for our goaties!

Tomorrow we head back to the library, because there is going to be a guitarist coming to put on a show for everyone!

Thanks for coming along to the library with us today! We are having a blast with all the summer activities!

Have a wonderful day!! ♥

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