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Playing With Your Food

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Learners discover about the form and function of traditional musical instruments, then use this knowledge to create non-traditional instruments that replicate the sounds of traditional instruments. They use vegetables to create their instruments!

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6th - 12th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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1 hr
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