Name: Make your own harmonica! | Play School: Science Time
Uploaded: 2026-01-25T13:18:36.000Z
Duration: 9 min 38 s
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Colin is an amazing singer, songwriter and musician.

And he's showing me some of his instruments.

Now you play the guitar by picking or strumming these strings.

And down the other end here, you can put your fingers in different places and play different notes.

If you use fingers together, you can play notes at the same time and that's called a chord.

And if you put your fingers in different places, it plays different chords.

You play other instruments too, don't you Colin?

And in fact Tayo, I have one right here, right now.

Yeah, and sometimes they're called a mouth organization.

Have you ever heard someone play the harmonica before?

You're not strumming it like you did with the guitar, you're just blowing air into it.

Well, I could tell you or I could show you.

For this experiment you'll need two popsicle sticks or tongue depressors, baking paper, tissue paper or tracing paper, scissors and sticky tack.

I'm thinking maybe I could use these two popsicle sticks and some baking paper to show you how a harmonica really works.

You might have seen these at the doctor's.

They're called tongue depressors and they use them to look inside your mouth like this.

I can see your tonsils there wiggling and jiggling around there having a.

Colin, I think I might need a clean one now.

Yeah, but we also need now two popsicle sticks and baking paper.

Now we need to cut a strip of baking Paper a little bit longer than the popsicle stick.

And that baking paper is going to go inside the popsicle sticks so it can wiggle and jiggle around and I hope, make a noise.

If you touch your throat like that, your vocal cords move when you sing or talk.

Now, we need the sticks to be just far enough apart so that the baking paper can move up and down between them and make a sound.

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