Tissue Box Guitar

Create a guitar with your budding musician. Recycled items, such as a tissue box and paper towel roll, get you started.

Dora Mermaid, Sun., 6/23 @ 7PM ET on Nick Jr.

Materials

• Newspapers
• Rectangular tissue box
• Paper towel roll
• Pencil for tracing
• Scissors
• Glue (in a squeeze bottle)
• Craft paint (or self-adhesive contact paper)
• Paintbrushes
• Rubber bands

Directions

1. Step 1

   On a work surface covered with newspapers, place the tissue box short-side up with the tissue slot facing towards you. Stand the cardboard paper towel roll on top and trace around it. Cut out the traced circle and insert the tube into the hole. (Parents may want to do this part.) Glue the tube in place and let it dry completely.

2. Step 2

   Your child can paint the guitar with craft paint (or help your child cover the box and tube with self-adhesive contact paper). Let the paint dry completely.

3. Step 3

   Stretch several rubber bands lengthwise around the box and over the the tissue slot. (Tip: Rubber bands in assorted widths will produce different sounds.) Roll a pencil under the rubber bands on the side opposite the guitar's neck and your child is ready to play.