(upbeat music) - Arts and crafts.

Yes please!

Let's get artsy.

My name is Elizabeth Remy Johnson and I'm a musician with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

(gentle chiming bells) If you wanted to make a concert grand harp it might take you a year.

But we can do a pretty good job with a box and some rubber bands.

This is one that's already completed (instrumental music) and I have a regular box here and another file folder box here.

You can use either one.

If you find a shoe box, the smaller the better.

You can decorate it any way you want.

And then get a bunch of rubber bands.

If you can find ones of different sizes that'll be the most fun to make different sounds.

So you do wanna make sure you have a grown up helping you.

You don't wanna get your face too close just in case these do break.

And you just stretch it over the box.

Make sure you like the way it sounds.

That's pretty good.

I'm gonna use a blue one next.

That's pretty similar.

(instrumental music) So I'm gonna try to find a smaller one that'll stretch even more and maybe make a higher sound.

(instrumental music) That's pretty good.

So this is pretty done.

That's a good harp rate there.

And now if you have a file folder at home you can make a different kind of harp.

Maybe you might need bigger rubber bands for this one.

The more you stretch them, as long as they don't break, the more tension there will be.

And the pitch of the rubber band will change.

(instrumental music) Good.

That's two different sounds.

Let's see what this thick one sounds like.

(instrumental music) Pretty good.

And another big one.

(instrumental music) Sometimes you need to adjust a little bit.

(instrumental music) That's pretty nice.

♪ Ta da da da ♪ I only think we need one more.

That one's gonna be too small.

So use another blue one (instrumental music) So you can either pluck it or do your glissando.

(gentle chiming bells)