DIY: “Making Do”

I have been looking and looking at wooden music toys for my Dear Son (DS). I have scoured reviews, checked prices and peeled my eyes for good deals. Well, you can imagine my excitement when  I found a grocery bag full of wooden musical instruments for $6 at a consignment sale yesterday! But you can probably also imagine my disappointment when I got home that several of the items were broken. “You know better, Megan!” was the feeling I had. But I’m a garage sale gal-what you see is what you get. Going to consignment I must have expected…well…more! I thought they had pretty strict guidlines at most of them…but I digress.

So I cleaned the instruments this morning and had a good stare. Luckily for me…most all were easily fixed. Here was my first “project”:

The tambourine was missing two little disks on each side. Bummer right? But there was also a little straight tambourine that was missing parts as well- It had 4 discs I could use. So I went into the garage and low and behold my hubby had Maze Nails, just the perfect length and diameter to secure the new discs. Voila! One complete tambourine!

Project number 2: The set had two Melissa and Doug castanets. One had fallen apart with no elastic, and one was way too loose with too much elastic. So I cut the elastic in half and could tie them both back up. Good as new! (Though this pic doesn’t show it tied tightly).

All in all, DS came out with 10 instruments or instrument sets for $6. And my “projects” took me less than 10 minutes. We’re both happy Now all we need is something to use with the triangle…

~~FrugalMegan~~