A wooden whistle is a funny children's toy. The process of making it can arouse interest in both children and adults, especially since it is quite easy to make it yourself. At the same time, not everyone knows how to make a whistle. Although this activity will not take much time and effort. There is also no need for any special tool. All you need is a regular knife.

Branch selection

It’s best to make a whistle from brittle ones, but don’t destroy them. living tree. Many branches can be collected next to it. Twigs no thicker than one centimeter are best suited. You can easily remove the bark from them with a knife.

Having collected enough branches, you should choose the only one from which you will make a whistle. To do this, find the most equal branch without knots or damage. Just 5-8 centimeters of a clean and level area on the branch will be enough. Pay attention to the bark: it must be perfect. The presence of kidneys will not be a hindrance - they can simply be removed.

After selecting a branch, you can cut off the excess part on one side, until the beginning of a smooth section. Having measured 5-7 centimeters from it, we make a circular cut. You will get a slot that resembles a ring. It should not be too deep; just cutting through the bark, touching the wood, is enough.

Removing the bark

It is necessary to separate the bark. We roll the stick on the table, pressing on it. You can tap with the handle of a knife. This will weaken its structure, and it will be much easier to separate it from the branch.

After tapping, you need to remove the bark with a rotational motion. It's important that she doesn't get hurt. The bark should come off easily. If necessary, you should repeat tapping on the branch. Once removed you will have a cylinder of bark. Setting aside 1-2 cm, make a cut in the shape of a semicircle.

Making a whistle

It is important to prepare all the details. From a “bare” branch you should cut a small cylinder, no more than 1-2 cm long. The side of this cylinder should be cut off. The cut should be wedge-shaped - this will allow you to regulate the sound.

Let's start assembly. Place the cut round timber with a wedge-shaped cutout in its original place - in a bark cylinder. You need to place it with the narrowed side up to the cut.

The whistle is ready

Having figured out how to make a whistle, you should start testing it. But you should not only try the whistle, but also adjust the sound. We press the free end of the bark tube with our fingers, then blow into it as hard as possible. As a result, we will hear a whistle. Of course, it may not work the first time. Everything can be adjusted. Cut off a piece of the remaining branch and insert it into the free end of the bark tube. By moving it back and forth, you can adjust the strength and frequency of the whistle.

Now you know how to make a wooden whistle yourself. By analogy, you can do more difficult option whistles - flute. To do this, you will need a stick of the same thickness, but longer - 10-12 cm. We also remove the bark and get a cylinder from it. Here, instead of one round cut, you need to make 3-4 cuts. Shut up open end tube with a stick, you can adjust the timbre of the sound with progressive movements. By covering the holes with your fingers, you can play simple but pleasant melodies.

Once you learn how to make a whistle, you can make it quickly and in no time. After all, all you need is the right branch and a simple knife. This skill is especially useful for adults who want to please their children with such a toy. By spending very little time and effort, you can please your child, giving him a lot of positive emotions.

A whistle is a simple, but such a funny and cheerful children's toy! And if you wish, you can do it yourself.

How to make a whistle?

How can you make a whistle with your own hands? We offer several interesting ways.

Method one

You can make a simple but loud whistle from wood. Here's what you'll need:

• a straight and neat branch of linden or willow ( optimal thickness- approximately 1.2-1.5 cm);
• sharp knife;
• ruler.

The manufacturing process is quite simple:

1. Cut a piece from the branch at least 10-12 cm long (a little longer is possible).
2. Step back about five to seven millimeters from one edge and make a shallow circular cut with a knife along the entire girth. Remove the bark from the edge.
3. From the other edge you need to make an oblique cut. On the same side, measure two or three centimeters and make another oblique cut, which will go to a depth of about a quarter of the twig. Next, make a straight cut deep into it and take out the excess.
4. Now, using a small hammer or the handle of a knife, gently but not very lightly tap the entire workpiece on all sides. On at this stage the bark should separate from the wood, and that's what you want. Don't tear the bark, you will need it later.
5. Now, from the top of the edge with an oblique cut (where the acute corner is located), cut off a part of the rod approximately two to three millimeters thick.
6. Next, place the wood back into the bark. The hole left will make a whistling noise when air is blown in.

If you wish, the finished whistle can be painted, then it will definitely become your child’s favorite bright toy.

Method two

A very original whistle can be made from an ordinary one. aluminum can. In addition, you will need sharp scissors and a tape measure.

Instructions:

1. Cut off the bottom of the jar and then cut out the side of the jar, making a slit lengthwise and separating the top.
2. You need to cut a strip from the wall, about 1-1.5 millimeters wide.
3. Bend one edge of the cut strip into a ring with a diameter of approximately 15-17 mm.
4. Bend the free edge near the ring, measure 25-30 millimeters from it. If necessary, the remaining segment should be shortened to four centimeters.
5. Wrap the edge of the first piece with a loose strip and move it towards the ring. Next, push this part apart with scissors or a thin knife to create a whistle nozzle.
6. The product is ready. And its side parts will be your thumb and forefinger, with which you need to close the sections of the ring.

Method three

Using the origami technique, you can make an interesting whistle out of paper. You will also need a ruler with a pencil and scissors.

Description:

1. To make it you will need the diagram shown below. Cut a sheet of paper six centimeters wide and 16 centimeters long. Divide it into 24 equal squares with a side equal to two centimeters. There will be three such squares in width, and eight in length.
2. Now cut off five millimeters from the bottom edge.
3. Next, start folding the paper in accordance with the attached diagram.

If you don't understand the diagram, you can watch a detailed video.

Method four

A pen is probably found in every home, and you can also make a ringing whistle out of it. Here's what you need for this:

• the base of a fairly wide handle (for example, with several rods);
• stationery knife;
• ruler;
• plasticine;
• sandpaper.

Manufacturing:

1. One end of the handle must be cut obliquely using a stationery knife.
2. Next, measure about three to five centimeters from the oblique cut, make an oblique cut in the body, which will go halfway deep. Above the end of this cut, start cutting the body straight and remove the excess part.
3. Process the oblique cut sandpaper so that it does not hurt your lips.
4. Cover the other end with plasticine.
5. Test your whistle.

Tip: the thicker the handle you use, the louder and more ringing the sound will be.

If a child requires a whistle, or needs it for other purposes, then you can make it yourself.

The most valuable gift is a gift made with your own hands! To make it interesting, original, unusual, you won’t need much time and effort! The main thing is desire. If you have it, then this article is for you.

Whistle- an excellent, unusual gift for both any child and every adult. The task is not the easiest to make the whistle work and whistle the first time. This will require your patience and attentiveness.

How to make a whistle with your own hands?

It will turn out very beautiful and interesting toy, if you make a whistle out of wood! It will turn out natural, natural and alive! Will bring joy and pleasure to its owner. When choosing a tree for a future whistle, they usually give preference to willow or linden, since you can easily peel the rod without spoiling it at all.

How to make a whistle from a tree?

1. Be careful when choosing future basis for the whistle. You need to choose a beautiful rod, the thickness of which will be about the thickness of a finger, about 12 millimeters, and cut it off. It is very important to choose a twig with a smooth, beautiful peel, because this is the basis of the future whistle. The length of the branch can be from 5 to 7 centimeters.

2. After you have chosen the desired rod, you need to trim it from all kinds of twigs, leaves and small twigs. It is necessary to clean it of this; the rod must be even and smooth. Next, you should trim the edge of the future workpiece.

3. The next step is to make a small wedge-shaped cutout. It should be made quite in-depth. The cut should engage the wood. You need to make such an unusual mark, which will soon be necessary and will help your future creation.

4. The next step is a ring cut. It must be done 4 centimeters from the end of our rod. The bark should be cleared from the rod; this can only be done with a deep cut.

5. You need to tap the rod. To quickly and conveniently tap the rod, you can use the handle of the most common standard knife. It is lightweight and easy to use.

6. A very delicate task - you need to remove the bark. We scroll through the workpiece and carefully remove the bark with a knife. You must definitely succeed!

When you peel the bark, it looks like this:

7. Have you forgotten about the unusual mark we made earlier? Now it’s useful to us! It is necessary to remove small curves of wood. Very important: you need to give it the shape of a strip.

Now we will try to make with you the simplest wooden homemade whistle. With our own hands, in the presence of the child, and even let him take part in the process a little. Believe me, for him to watch the process of the birth of a toy will be a real miracle!

Materials

So, we need a knife and a smooth willow rod, 7-10 millimeters thick. Why willow? Because you can very easily remove the bark from a willow twig without damaging it. And this, as we will see later, is very important for us.

Willow is a plant with brittle branches, which means you won’t have to spoil living plant. It is enough just to take a walk under a willow tree after a fresh breeze to collect a bunch of branches, exactly what we need.

Step 1. Cutting a suitable rod

We select a branch with intact and even bark (this is very important condition), if possible, without knots. Now we need to find a flat section 4-7 centimeters long on this branch. There may be buds in this area (this is common for willow), but in no case should there be any knots.

Now we cut the branch along the border of a flat area. At the other end of the section we make a circular cut. The cut should be deep enough and lightly (just lightly) cling to the wood. To make sure that the entire layer of bark is really cut through, you can remove a ring 1-2 millimeters thick.

Step 2. “Rolling” the branch

After this, we begin to lightly “tap” the bark with a small hammer in a circle in all places. Instead of a hammer, you can use the handle of a knife. Instead of tapping, you can also “roll” the twig. This is done so that the bark subsequently peels off from the wood more easily.

Step 3. Removing the bark

We make a cutout on the branch. After this, carefully, using rotational movements, we try to remove the bark from the branch without damaging it. There is no need to rush; if the bark does not come off, you need to knock on it again and try again. In the end, it will definitely come off.

Step 4. Preparing parts

Now carefully cut off the “round piece” from the branch remaining without bark with a knife, just along the line of our cutout.

Then we cut off the round barrel.

Don’t try to cut it absolutely straight, it won’t work anyway. Yes, we actually don’t need this. If the cut turns out to be wedge-shaped, as in our figure - this is only for the better - it will be easier to regulate the sound.

Step 5. Assembling the Whistle

We insert the cut round piece into its original place, cut side up. If our cut turns out to be oblique, then we place it at the bottleneck to the hole.

Step 6. Sound Settings

Now, attention. We clamp the open end of the resulting tube and blow into it quite strongly from the side of the round. The result will be a distinct whistle. True, its timbre may not be very beautiful.

No problem, we will adjust it now.

We cut off the remaining end of the stick, insert it into the open end of the tube and move the stick back and forth to select the most pleasant timbre of the whistle. Then we cut off the protruding part of the branch and the whistle is ready!

Attention! Our whistle makes a pretty loud whistle. Therefore the most best place for exercise - dacha or country house, but not a city apartment.

And finally, one piece of advice. If you manage to find a willow twig with a sufficiently long section of smooth bark, 10-15 centimeters, then instead of a whistle you can make a simple pipe. It is made in exactly the same way as a whistle, but instead of selecting the timbre of the sound, simply plug the open end with a wooden stopper, and in the remaining space, make 3-4 holes in the bark, so that they can be plugged with your fingers at the same time. By opening one or another hole one by one, we can reproduce the simplest melodies. Of course, our notes will not correspond to the natural scale, but we don’t need it. The main thing is that the melody is pleasant.

How to make a whistle out of wood with your own hands, what you need to know and be able to do.

Material selection:
A plant hollow reed trunk is suitable for this product,

reeds or a tube made of wood (you can use food-grade plastic).

Detailing:
tube
inlet cylinder
tone control plug

TUBE

Made of wood. O.D- twelve millimeters. The wall thickness is two millimeters. Length - one hundred and twenty. On the side of the inlet channel, at an angle of thirty degrees, there is a cut. There is a groove on top for air outlet. The surface is decorated.

CYLINDER

Made of wood. Its diameter is eight millimeters.

At the top there is a cut at an angle of five degrees towards the entrance of the tube. At the bottom there is a cut identical to the cut in the tube.

PLUG

Made of wood. Its diameter is eight millimeters. Length - eighty.

Assembly order
1. Coat the cylinder with glue and insert it into the tube from the cut side.
2. Insert the plug into the tube with reverse side.
3. Use the depth of the plug to select the sound tone (the deeper, the finer the sound)
4. Cut off the excess part of the plug.
5. Coat the remaining part of the plug with glue and insert it into the tube.

Reference: if the length of the tube is increased to 280 (mm); make six holes in turn on the surface of the groove, from the edge of the product (each of which has its own tonality - the wider and further from the groove, the higher the note) with a step of 20 (mm); make one hole on the back side of the groove surface, from the edge of the product, at a distance of 140 (mm); we get a pipe.

We invite you to watch the video clip: “How to make a whistle from wood,” where a product of a different design is presented.