Jingle Bells with Grandchildren

 Want to put a fun twist on Christmas caroling with your grandchildren? Try playing the melody to Jingle Bells on your head with a cardboard tube!

Gather up cardboard tubes left over from Christmas wrapping paper or empty paper towels tubes.  You will need enough for five tubes.  It really doesn’t  matter the diameter of the tube.  It’s the length that counts.

Cut tube number one 15 inches long.  Write the number ‘one’ on the tube with a marking pen. 

Cut tube number two 14 inches long and write the number ‘two’ on the tube. 

Cut tube three 13 inches long and write the number the number ‘three’ on that tube. 

Cut tube number four 12 inches long and write the number ‘four’ on that tube. 

Cut tube number five 11 inches long and write that number ‘five’ on the tube.

Click here for the musical directions for playing Jingle Bells using the cardboard tubes.

The directions have the number of the tube that is to be played and when it is to be played.  For example, when there is a number three, the person holding the number three tube hits her head.  Since everybody knows the melody, it’s pretty easy to ‘learn’ how to play the tubes.

My family demonstrates here how it’s done . . .

I hope that you have a safe and a very Merry Christmas with your family.