The Rocken’ Box Guitar
By: Donelda

     My instrument is called “The Rocken’ Box Guitar”. I first researched on the internet to find an idea. When I found one, I knew it was time to gather my supplies.
     I got a shoe box from the recycling bin. I put the box  on the counter and drew a square in the center of it. Then my mom traced the square with an exacta knife to cut it out. When my mom was done cutting I went up stairs to get rapping paper. The rapping paper has holly leaves on it.
          After rapping the box, I got rubber bands. There were two white ones, two red one and one yellow one. I put the rubber bands around the box and over the sound hole. At first it was hard to hear the pitch of the rubber bands because they kept hitting the body of the guitar. My brother helped me hold them in place while my mom stapled them securely. Then their pitch was more clear. I covered the staples with construction paper so it would look nicer. When I strummed the hard it made a loud sound. When I strummed it lightly it made a soft sound,  that’s my dynamics. You can tell the timbre between my guitar and a drum because you can hear the “strings” strum like a guitar.
           The first white rubber band has a high pitch. The second rubber band is red it has a high pitch. The third rubber band is white it has a low pitch. The fourth rubber band is yellow it has the lowest pitch on my guitar. The fifth rubber band is red it has the highest pitch on my guitar.
           It was fun to make a shoe box turn into a guitar.