Beer Bottle Lids Castanets

Chaos writes:

We love the whole idea of upcycling our ‘junk’ here at Kids Chaos, and wanted to share this fab idea for making some clacky castanets…

You will need:

Beer bottle lids (Liz asked where these Spitfire bottle caps came from, they are much coveted Shepherd Neame caps!)
Cardboard
Glue

Draw around your beer bottle tops, on a piece of card. Cut out the ‘skate-board-shape’ (as 8yo refers to it!)

Fold the card in half, and glue the beer bottle lids to each end so they touch, and ‘clack’ like a castanet.

We tried a simple design, using blue-tack, and they yellow lids (shown) however, they blue-tack ‘dulled’ the sound. So we switched on the glue gun!

Before we completed the second castanet, we glued on some decoupage paper we’d picked up from HobbyCraft, and added some googly-eyes. The beer bottle lids which were glued on with the hot glue gun, make a MUCH better sound – you can hear them on the google+ hangout below, kindly hosted by Maggy Woodley from Red Ted Art.

You’ll also be able to see Maggy’s Maraccas and Guitar; Crystal’s Jingle Bell wrist bands. George’s tambourine, Lizzie’s Bluebell fairy shaker, Anthea’s bottle blowing music and further links to follow from Adele. If you’d like to see what other uses we have for bottle lids, click here.

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14 Comments to “Beer Bottle Lids Castanets”

Alison Sye

at 11:48 am · Edit

Think this might be my favourite so far. Brilliant
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chaos Author

at 11:57 am · Edit

thanks Alison, blushing now…:)
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Liz Burton

at 12:31 pm · Edit

I need to ask, where do the Mod stylee bottle tops come from?

I adore this craft, *immediately takes up beer drinking so I can make some too*
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1. chaos Author
  
  at 9:38 pm · Edit
  
  they are Shepherd Neame Spitfire caps… massive collection here at our house Liz! xx
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Mary

at 2:02 am · Edit

about how long is the cardboard for the castanets?
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1. Ali Clifford Author
  
  at 9:09 am · Edit
  
  Hi Mary, well it was about the width of a cereal box – if that helps?!
  Let me know if you have a go at making them x
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Jennifer

at 3:03 pm · Edit

I work with two year olds. What else can be used in place of the beer bottle caps? Thanks in advance:)
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MARILDA LOPES ALEXANDRE

at 4:58 pm · Edit

show as ideias
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Fouchard

at 11:04 am · Edit

Bonjour a vous c est pour faire du bruit ou musique dite moi c,est quoi faire mercis tres bonnes ides
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