Make These Super Easy Pen Pan Flutes for a great lesson about musical instruments
Making these super easy pen pan flutes is perfect for any lesson about music or instruments. Best of all, they’re part of our 10-minute ESL/EFL craft for kids, which means that they’re super cheap, super easy, and super fun to make. Teaching students about music is far more exciting when they can make their own, real instruments.
When you make these pen pan flutes with your students, you’re not just making an instrument. You’re teaching students about the relationship between the length of the tubes and the pitch (sound) they make. The faces on your students will light up as soon as they hear the magical notes from an instrument made from markers!
The other great thing about these instruments is that they are made from a set of color markers. That means you can find a good use for all those markers after the ink runs out, or you can buy them new. We found a pack at the local 100 yen shop (the dollar store) with 30 different colors. This is especially useful for EFL/ESL English lessons because it allows students practice colors as they learn about musical concepts in English.