Wonderful wind chimes

Activity

Use materials you have in your school garden or collect recycled items to make a wind chime.

Learning objectives

Use this activity as part of a sensory or weather project.
Gather materials together.

Pot, twig or soild item to form the base
Length of string
Large beads
Scissors
Selection of items to make interesting sounds such as; Metal objects: copper pipe, keys, cutlery or natural objects: shells, short lengths of bamboo

Choose your materials and decide what will form the base of your hanging structure before you begin. Then decide how you will arrange your ‘noisy’ items.
Cut string to different lengths to attach your noisy items. Make sure they will bump into each other to make noise.
Attach your items to the string. For copper pipes and cutlery, just attach one item. For keys or shells, attach them in a series, knotting each one to keep it in place.
Repeat several more times, spreading the threads evenly around the base. Make a loop of string to hang the wind chime from a tree or arch where it will catch the breeze
Ensure it is above head height so no one will walk into it.

This activity would work equally as well with natural materials such as pine cones, it will be silent but will still move around in the wind.
If the wind chime doesn't make a noise then it is a mobile!
Use this activity as part of Sensory Sensations class growing topic