What is a sand hammer

Summary: sand hammer is a rhythmic percussion instrument, originated in South America, the Indians, playing the left and right hand each holding a hand, hands alternately up and down, playing a variety of rhythmic patterns; now the sand hammer in addition to do musical instruments, but also often used to act as toddler toys. The structure of the sand hammer is very simple, the production method is not difficult, with a plastic bottle, paper cups, small spoons and other tools can be made out of the sand, green beans, popcorn and other materials can be put inside. Here's a look at how to make your own sand hammer. First, what is a sand hammer

Sand hammer is a kind of shaking body sound instrument, originated in the South American Indian rhythmic percussion instrument, the traditional sand hammer is a spherical dry gourd, filled with some dry and hard seed particles or gravel, to gourd the original elongated neck as a handle, shaking the hard particles hit the gourd wall of the sound, and now the sand hammer as one of the toys for young children to use.

Two, the sand hammer production method of the whole

Sand hammer can be made, only with some very simple and easy to get the material can be made, the following for you to introduce several sand hammer production methods:

Methods

Materials:

Empty bottles, two, three different colors of colorful paper, double sided tape and transparent adhesive, sand.

Practice:

1, measure the length and width of the three parts of the bottle, and cut the three colors of colored paper into three strips according to the measured length and width.

2. Stick double-sided tape on the back of the colorful paper, use scissors to cut the following part of the double-sided tape into a tassel, paste it in the middle of the bottle, and turn the tassel outward.

3, the second color of confetti do the same as the above steps, the third color of confetti do not need to cut fringe, are pasted on the empty bottle.

4, with a small spoon to fill one-third of the sand into the empty bottle.

5, then the second empty bottle according to the first practice, do not need to fill the sand, placed in the first bottle has been filled with sand on top of the bottle, the bottle mouth should be aligned, and then use the pre-prepared transparent glue to fix the two bottles, a sand hammer on the production of the completion.

Practice 2

Materials:

Mung beans, small spoon.

How to make:

1.Fill a small spoon with green beans and close the two small spoons.

2. Tie the small spoons tightly with a rubber band and a small sand hammer is made.

Practice 3

Materials:

Two disposable paper cups, popcorn, thin ribbon, scissors, wide tape, awl.

Practice:

1, first in the bottom center of the paper cups poke holes, and then threaded into the ribbon at the inner end of the knot, two paper cups are so dealt with.

2, in one of the paper cups filled with popcorn, and then take out the other paper cup, the mouth of the two paper cups snapped together, and fixed with wide tape paste, sand hammer on the production is complete.