- Gather your materials. You will need some cardboard, scrap piece of black construction paper, tape, sharp scissors, 3 metallic pipe cleaners, and lots of markers.
- Draw a simple guitar on the cardboard. Perfection is not required, as long as your child can guess that it’s a guitar you are fine.
- Have your color it with markers. I chose markers over paint because you have to wait for paint to dry and this is a project you want to play with immediately.
- Cut out the black oval for the hole while your child is coloring.
- Tape the oval on.
- Cut out the guitar.
- Poke 3 holes o the neck of the guitar, and 3 corresponding ones at the base.
- Thread your pipe cleaners through , bend and tape the pipe cleaners on the back side.
- Tape over the tape a few times so the pipe cleaners are secure and no sharp bits can peek through.
- Rock out!
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*~*Lis*~* says
awwww this is great! My husband plays guitar too and Lorelei loves playing with him! I’m going on vacation in a few weeks and have been looking for some projects for hubby to do with her while i’m gone – I think I just found it!
Katherine Marie! says
INCREDIBLE!!!! Love this idea… as always. I don’t think there is a kid in the world that wouldn’t adore this project.
THANKS for sharing!
Swati says
Groovy site! Not just the content but the get up as well – the way you have it all laid out, and the links and stuff. Neat. Wish I could do something like that!
mer and justin says
Yay! I love this and so will my almost 3 year old. He is absolutely obsessed with musical instruments and the guitar is one of his favorites. I can’t wait to do this activity with him.
tati says
These are so adorable! Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas for crafts and books to go along! wow!
I wanna be creative says
Thanks so much for this! My 2 year old is sick today so we made the guitar and she has rushed around with it all morning. Has completely distracted her from her cold!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwannabcreative/
“I wanna be creative” should be sung to The Ramones, tune “I wanna be sedated”.
Siayla says
Just wanted to let you know I linked to this tutorial in my blog
http://siayla.blogspot.com/2009/03/abiyoyo-story-and-rythum-sticks.html
I think it’s a cute activity and it would go nicely with a book I blogged about if someone wanted to 🙂
Kim says
We loved this one– thanks! My 2 year old and I made this and gave it to his music teacher as a present. We love your site!
Cindy deRosier says
I’m the Editorial Assistant for Fun Family Crafts and I wanted to let you know that we have featured your guitar! You can see it here:
http://funfamilycrafts.com/guitar-craft/
If you have other kid friendly crafts, we’d love it if you would submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a wonderful project idea!