{"id":6741,"date":"2021-04-22T03:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2021-04-22T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:28:19","slug":"cardboard-castanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/?p=6741","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard Castanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<p>In honor of Earth Day 2021, I embarked on a special project for my kodomo kiddos to incorporate the three R\u2019s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. If 2020 brought anything, it was a plethora of cardboard boxes (thanks Amazon!) and bottle caps\u2026..don\u2019t ask. But this meant an opportunity for multicultural learning and instrument-making. The results were delightful and well worth the hoarding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardboard (cut into strips approx. 1.5\u2033 x 4\u2033)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Glue Gun (used with adult supervision)<\/li><li>Bottle Caps<\/li><li>Paint Pens (optional)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/01one-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6743\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/01one.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/?attachment_id=6743\" class=\"wp-image-6743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/01one-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/01one-300x300.jpeg 300w, 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https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two-1260x1259.jpeg 1260w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two-630x630.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two-420x420.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two-840x839.jpeg 840w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two-315x315.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02two.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assembly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Paint the tops of the bottle caps as desired. I chose to try my hand at drawing the earth! Allow to dry.<\/li><li>Cut cardboard into strips (approx. 1.5\u2033 wide by 4\u2033 long).<\/li><li>Preheat glue gun. Apply glue to the outside rim of the bottle cap. Be careful not to burn your fingers!<\/li><li>Press bottle cap (and glue) onto either end of the cardboard strips. Allow to cool.<\/li><li>When glue is dry, bend cardboard strips in half so that the bottle caps touch.<\/li><li>Turn on your favorite music and add that feisty percussion!<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Earth Day, y\u2019all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-1024x705.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-1024x705.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-300x207.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-768x529.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-1536x1058.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-1260x867.jpeg 1260w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-630x434.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-420x289.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-840x578.jpeg 840w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final-315x217.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09final.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Earth Day 2021, I embarked on a special project for my kodomo kiddos to incorporate the three R\u2019s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. If 2020 brought anything, it was a plethora of cardboard boxes (thanks Amazon!) and bottle caps\u2026..don\u2019t ask. But this meant an opportunity for multicultural learning and instrument-making. The results were delightful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodomokids.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}