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Garden Xylophone Outdoor Music Activity for Kids

Kids can make music outside with this recycled jar xylophone activity! Save empty glass food jars or buy a few inexpensive jars from a craft store; we used a mix of both for our garden xylophone.

This post is part of an A-Z Outdoor Activities for Kids blog hop which means you can hop on over to more A-Z themed outdoor activities for kids ages toddler to Kindergarten by clicking on the links towards the bottom of the post.

How to Make a Garden Xylophone for Kids

This letter X themed outdoor activity is intended for ages toddler through Kindergarten, but older kids will love it too! We all like nature and music right? So let’s get them outside and making recycled jar xylophones.

Supplies:

Empty glass jars. We used different sizes but you can use jars of the same size for this too and I’ll tell you how!

Dirt, grass, rocks, water, mud or anything else kids can find outdoors to fill their jars

Two sticks or two spoons

Directions for making a Xylophone out of Glass Jars:

1. Wash and dry jars
2. Set the jars on a flat surface outside and fill them with different objects found around the yard. We filled our jars with leaves, rocks, mud, dirt, grass and water.
3. If your jars are all the same size fill them with different amounts of objects from the yard. This will change the sound for each jar.
4. Once the jars are filled you can use sticks or spoons to play the xylophone while the jars are sitting upright. You can also set them in a pile of loose dirt one their sides and leave them in your garden for kids to play music and refill each time they play outside!

Kids can experiment with the jars to see which objects cause a sounds for the jar. A jar full of mud will have a lower tone than a jar with leaves. What kinds of sounds will your kids create with their garden xylophone?

Hop on over to see more Kids Outdoor Activities by clicking the links or image below!

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