Learn to make your own guitar out of a cereal box!
Materials:
- Cereal box
- Rubber bands
- Paper towel tube
- Popsicle sticks
- Tape
- Glue
- Scissors
- Decorating items like markers, stickers, string with hole punch, paper, duct tape, etc
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-1-rotated.jpg)
Steps:
1. Tape your cereal box closed
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-2-rotated.jpg)
2. Cut a hole for your paper towel tube on one side of the box
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-3-rotated.jpg)
3. Optionally decorate your paper towel tube, I decorated using duct tape
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-4-rotated.jpg)
4. Attach your paper towel tube and secure it using tape. I cut flaps and wrapped it around my paper towel tube and box
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-5-rotated.jpg)
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-6-rotated.jpg)
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-7-rotated.jpg)
5. Cut a hole in the center of your box
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-8-rotated.jpg)
6. Decorate your box optionally. I covered mine with paper and cut out the hole
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-9-rotated.jpg)
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-10-rotated.jpg)
7. I also added duct tape to all the sides
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-11-rotated.jpg)
8. Glue on your two popsicle sticks above your hole in the center of your box
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-12-rotated.jpg)
9. Put your rubber bands around your whole box. I added six rubber bands for six strings
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-13-rotated.jpg)
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-14-rotated.jpg)
10. Decorate your guitar however you’d like, be creative. I added stickers and a string by whole punching the top of my guitar and tying it to a rubber band on the back
![](https://virtuallybgcmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cereal-box-guitar-15-rotated.jpg)
Congratulations on completing your guitar, try out the noise it makes and have fun!