Found Sounds with YolanDa Brown

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YolanDa Brown explores various places to find items that could be turned into musical objects.

Watch the videos and see how her Mighty Music Makers take up YolanDa's challenge and create musical instruments with items found around the school, in a market, at home and in an allotment.

These activities are a great way to get your children to be creative.

Explore sounds around your environment with your children and create music.

You can also download this 'How to make' guide and create even more homemade musical instruments such as: drums, tubular bells, microphone and a guitar.

Watch YolanDa's Found Sounds episodes

Make a Big Box Bass

Make a Big Box Bass

YolanDa hunts around a school and finds everyday objects for her Mighty Music Makers to create musical instruments.

Make a Comb Kazoo

Make a Comb Kazoo

YolanDa heads to the market and finds things on sale for her Mighty Music Makers to make instruments from.

Make a Jar Xylophone

Make a Jar Xylophone

Mighty Music Makers are put to the challenge when YolanDa gives them household items to make musical instruments from.

Make a Hosepipe Horn

Make a Hosepipe Horn

YolanDa explores an allotment to find interesting items that her Mighty Music Makers could make musical instruments from.

Perform with homemade musical instruments

Perform with homemade musical instruments

YolanDa gets the players of the BBC Philharmonic orchestra to team up with her Mighty Music Makers to perform the Bring the Noise theme tune using their homemade instruments.