Who is this useful for?
Parents/caregivers
This resource provides a simple, step-by-step guide to making low-cost, homemade shakers using locally available materials such as bottle tops and containers. It is designed to support children’s play and sensory development by offering an easy, accessible activity that caregivers, teachers, and communities can create and use at home or in learning environments
Materials needed
- Metallic bottle tops
- Nails
- Hammer
- A pair of Pliers
- A strong wire
Process
We want to make a shaker.
Get your bottle top. These metallic bottle tops, that have just been removed from a bottle.
Create a hole in the center of it. By hitting a nail through.
After creating a hole through the bottle top, turn the bottle top upside down and make it flat. This is so that the wire can go through it.
Once you are done, you do this.
You can also find another metallic wire that is smaller than this.
This hole acts as a passage. Then you pass it through like this.
When you are done, you fold it and tie a knot.
After, this is how you shake it.
This is easy to use and does not require a lot of money. Making this kind of shaker is very easy because the materials can be accessed.
We are now making our locally made shakers. So even when the child is sleeping, she/he is able tp listen/hear to the sound of the shaker.
This was easy to make because it doesn’t require any money. It is homemade.
Here, you are done making your home-made shaker.
Alternatively, you can get a container. Create holes through it and add small pieces of stone. And it will produce a very good sound.
Descriptive transcript for locally making a shaker for children with deafblindness and complex disabilities.
Narrator: Making a shaker for children with local and low-cost materials for playing and sensory development.
Visual Description: A man and woman (caregivers) on the ground showing each other how they each make a shaker locally. The man shakes the complete device to create sound.
Narrator: Materials Needed: 1. Metallic bottle tops, 2. Nail, 3. Hammer, 4. A pair of pliers, 5. A strong wire.
Visual Description: The demonstrator/ caregiver showing the different materials needed to make a shaker locally.
Narrator: We want to make a shaker. Get metallic bottle tops. These bottle tops have just been removed from bottles
Visual Description: The demonstrator, lifting up bottle tops and bringing it closer to the camera
Narrator: Create a hole in the center of the bottle. Hit a nail through
Visual Description: Demonstrator gets a nail, puts at the center of the bottle. Then a hammer on the hand. Hits through to create a hole
Narrator: After creating a hole through the bottle tops, turn the bottle top upside down and hit it flat. So that the wire can easily go through it.
Visual description: Demonstrator turns the bottle top upside down and hits it flat using a hammer
Narrator: Once you are done, you get your wire. You can also get a smaller wired than this
Visual Description: Demonstrator picks up the already made shaker and unties / unknots the wire to enter the flattened bottle top
Narrator: Then you pass it through like this. When you are done, you fold it and tie a knot
Visual Description: Demonstrator pulls out the bottle top and fixes it back in. He then folds it in circular form and ties a knot at the tips of both ends of the wire.
Narrator: After, this is how you shake it. This is easy to use and doesn’t require a lot of money.
Visual Description: Demonstrator shakes it and creates sound
Narrator: Making this kind of shaker is very easy because the materials can easily be accessed. We are now done making our locally made shaker. So even when the child is sleeping, she/he can listen to the sound of the shaker.
Visual Description: Demonstrator continues to shake the shaker while talking
Narrator: This was easy to make and didn’t require any money. It is home made and didn’t require money. Here, you are done making your shaker locally. Alternatively, you can get a container. Create holes through it. Add small pieces of stones. And it will produce a very good kind of sound