The journey to craft a kazoo out of natural materials was an adventure for Emily and the bushcraft students. With their knife, a saw, some coppiced Hazel, and a blade of grass they set off on a quest to make music!

We were thrilled at how engaged the students were as they tried different techniques and experimented with different blades of grass and ‘post-box’ sizings to produce different sounds.

It wasn’t an easy task, but our students worked hard and managed to produce a kazoo each. After some tweaking here and there (and quite a bit of laughter) they had perfected the art of making a sound that was a bit like a dying peacock.

Not only did they learn something new, but they also had a lot of fun doing it. Nothing beats hand-crafted music! Now, time to annoy some dogs…