If you've ever wanted to chirr like a cicada or buzz like a bee, just take this humming noisemaker for a spin. When you swing it around by its string, the passing air causes the rubber band to vibrate, resulting in a droning insect sound.

Materials

• Pencil eraser
• Craft stick
• Index card

• Staple
• String
• Flat rubber band

Instructions

1. To make one, start by slipping a pencil eraser onto each end of a craft stick.

2. Trim an index card into a 3-inch square. (We decorated ours with wasplike stripes.) Center the card between the erasers and staple it to the craft stick.

3. Tie one end of a yard of string on the craft stick between the card and eraser. Stretch a flat rubber band around the eraser ends, as shown. Get your hummer buzzing by swinging it in a circle above your head.

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• May 2010