Wind chimes

Cynthia John

Make your own wind-chimes to create some gentle music and remind you to celebrate each day.

Material required
Cardboard
Colourful magazine paper
Fevicol
Compass (to make holes)
Coins
Paints, twine, glitter

Preparation guide
1. Draw an attractive picture on a piece of cardboard and cut it out. Paint it on both sides.
2. Draw some rockets, balloons and confetti on colour paper from glossy magazines.
3. Cut them out, stick them on cardboard and use glitter to decorate them. Ensure that both sides are decorated or painted.
4. Tie these to the main picture using twine. Fix a rectangular piece of cardboard to the last piece firmly.
5. Tie coins of different sizes to twine and hang them from the rectangular strip by making holes in it with a compass.
6. Suspend the coins at slightly different lengths, but make sure they are close enough to touch each other.
7. Listen to the tinkle and decide how many coins you want to add.
8. Hang your wind-chime in the middle of a doorway or balcony, where the wind will make it tinkle. The soft music will cheer you.

Teacher talk

Here’s how you can spread some cheer in your classroom. You need to get all your students involved in making your class great.
Maintain a birthday list or planner in class. You could use the one suggested in this issue of PW Kidzone.
On the first of the month, students whose birthdays fall in that month must get together and do something for the class over the next 30 days. Give them ideas, and tell them what the class needs. Plan an online celebration.
They could bring some interesting experiments or games to share them with the class. Or, they could decorate their rooms and show it to the online class.
You could set up a bulletin board where they can post articles, poems, inspirational quotes, cartoons and attractive pictures.
All students will enjoy this activity, and have fun learning to work together while doing something for the class.
As the months pass, they will become a close-knit class, with classmates who care about each other, and give their best for fellow students.
You will have something exciting happening every month! So get started!