3 teaching situations, 3 solutions.
In the Orff demonstration room,
For boomwhackers, coffee cans, one for each color/size, painted
appropriately.
For hand drums, pegboard on the wall. The other instruments are
either hanging or in bins.
In the ECED demonstration room, we have one cabinet with a
large plastic bucket for boomwhackers and hooks for scarves in
bundles, movement ribbons and the like, bins for small like
percussion sets, each of which holds enough for 12 children
(usually 2 bins of each), and a large plastic bin which holds 1
dz 8" drums.
For my "on the go" set, I have zippered clear vinyl bags which
hold a set of various instruments, including sound shapes,
enough for 12 students (which is my maximum ECED music class
size). These hang over coat hangers in my closet at home, and I
just pull what I need to take with me (some of them never make
it into the closet except over the summer-during the school
year, they stay in my car between classes). Larger stuff is on
shelves underneath, and I just pull what I need and take it
with me. Boomwhackers live in a duffle bag.
The only place I use Bass boomwhackers is the Orff room-
everywhere else I use Octavators if I need a 2nd octave.
They're just too hard for my little guys to handle.
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