Rubber Band Guitars

Tube Flutes

Pumpkin-Peanut Butter Soup

Rubber Band Guitars

Make this easy, quick craft with your young reader after reading Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. To see all our Pumpkin Soup activites, click here.

Play music together like Duck, Cat, and Squirrel, with this rubber band guitar and our tube flutes!

Supplies

Rubber bands
Shoe box or Styrofoam tray
Markers or other supplies for decorating the shoe box (optional)

Making The Guitars

Stretch rubber bands across a shoebox or Styrofoam tray and strum away! Your reader may prefer to decorate the box or tray before adding the rubber bands. Color with markers or crayons, add stickers, glue on construction paper or whatever else comes to mind!

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