Anything that makes sound can become a musical instrument. Have you ever played the pots and pans, bells, bottles, trash bags, or trash cans with your little one? One of the best things to do on a rainy day is to line up pots, pans, jars, spoons, sticks, whatever you have laying around the house will work to make you own kind of music.

Barbara Poole is a primary school teacher with 20 years experience. She enjoys reading to her grandchildren and students and loves music. She loved making music with her children when they were young, and now her grandchildren, using anything available to them, Pots, pans, spoons, containers of rice, anything that made sound, would become a musical instrument. Have you ever played a pot or pan?