After deciding how to make my instrument, my mom and I went to the Shepherd Hardware store and bought a dowel. Next I looked around my house for the base of the drum and found a hexagon shaped box. I glued brown paper on the box and then put a coat of red paint on it. I let it dry for a day and then put another coat of red paint on it. After all the paint had dried, my dad helped me find out how long the dowel had to be and I marked where it needed to be cut and the I cut the excess amount off and sanded it smooth. My dad then helped me mark where the holes had to be cut to put the dowel through and helped me cut out the holes.

After the holes were cut I put the dowel through them. Next my mom and I measured how long the string had to be from the sides to the middle of the base and then cut the string. My mom poked holes in the sides of the box where I wanted the string to be and I put the string through the holes and my mom glued the string to the inside of the box with the hot glue gun. I put the beads on the end of the string and tied it in a knot.

After my drum was all put together, I though it looked too plain so I decided to put some more paint on it to decorate it and I had some string left over so I decided to put string around the dowel. My mom helped me glue the string on the dowel with the hot glue gun. My instrument took about a week to make.