How Do You Make A Clay Whistle?
Making clay whistles is a fun adult supervised craft for children and a craft project for the music classroom. Teaching a child about the flow of air in musical instruments plus the properties of clay is a double learning experience. Break a piece of pliable clay (about the size of a baseball) into two equal halves and roll into balls. The equality of the clay balls is important, as they will form the two halves of the clay whistle body. Push your thumb into the center of one of the clay balls to create a central depression. Pinch the clay from step 2 to increase the central depression gently using the thumb and fingers. The result should look like half of a tennis ball. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with the other clay ball attempting to make the two halves of the body as symmetrical as possible. Roughen the edges of both clay halves with a cocktail stick, making the surface rough. Use small amounts of slip (clay heavily watered down into a gooey paste) to connect the two halves before smoothi
