if you’re at a party this summer and
want to grab someone’s attention you
could try charming the crowd with an
improvised pan flute or you could go for
a more direct approach in this project
we’re turning bottle caps and drink cans
into sports style party whistles that’ll
give you the power you need to summon
the attention you deserve
[Music]
we’re all familiar with the term life
hacks but this summer the guys at Mike’s
Hard Lemonade asked me to help put a
refreshing twist on it with what they’re
calling Mike hacks Mike hack basically a
life hack that makes any social occasion
more awesome I tried hot gluing some
glass bottles together and found it yes
they really can work as a pan-flute it’s
a pretty awesome idea but it could be
pretty messy and take up a lot of space
so let’s try making another kind of
party favor that’s just as awesome but a
little easier to manage we’ll need to
start this project with an empty
aluminum drink can now if we use
something like a pair of scissors to
make some strategic cuts we can harvest
a lightweight sheet of aluminum metal
now before you throw the scraps away
make sure you save a tab or two because
we’ll need those for measurements in
just a minute all right let’s cut a long
narrow strip from the sheet metal making
sure the edges are as straight as
possible
then cut a smaller stubbier piece as
well you can see long strip is the width
of a single can tab while the smaller
piece is as wide and as tall as two
pieces laid side by side we need to join
these pieces together with the smaller
rectangle centered on top about a
quarter inch down from the end the two
sides wrap around the back holding it in
place and now you can snip the top
corners off if you feel like it and
finish up by folding the tab over to
lock everything together
we’ve just formed the mouthpiece for our
whistle now let’s grab the other end of
the strip and push it back through the
mouthpiece being careful not to bend it
you’ll see what we’re going to do with
this in just a minute all right it’s
time to get busy with our bottle caps I
tried using a pair of scissors to snip
the sides and cut a little notch in each
cap so when the two bottoms are lined up
they form a round container with a
symmetrical hole at the top let’s bring
back the piece we made earlier and fit
the barrel inside one of the caps then
expand it so it completely fills the
inside now that we know it fits together
nicely we can line the inside of the cap
with some hot
then place the rounded strip back in
position when the glue is hardened it
should look like this
now this is the point where we form the
noisemaker carefully cut the strip so it
lines up with the top of the notch then
pull the scrap part out of the
mouthpiece there’s only one thing left
to do and that’s to add hot glue to the
other cap and press the two pieces
firmly together making sure the notches
line up symmetrically now for one last
embellishment
I tried cutting one of the tabs in half
and hot gluing it to the back so now we
have the option of adding a lanyard
that’ll just make it fully accessible
anytime we want it the whistle works by
directing air through the mouthpiece and
splitting it over the sharp edge of the
metal not only does it look good but it
actually sounds good too if you try
rolling your tongue when you blow it
will sound a lot like a referee’s
whistle and it’s really really loud well
now you know how to convert your cans
and bottle caps into colourful and
customizable party whistles it’ll summon
you attention when you need it and make
a great conversation piece when you
don’t well that’s it for now if you
liked this project perhaps you’ll like
some of my others check them out at the
king of random calm hey guys this is the
whistle that I just made in this video
and I thought one of the coolest things
I can do is give it to one of you so
here’s the deal all you have to do is
leave your comment below and I’m going
to choose a random comment and ship this
thing in about a week just a little way
to express my appreciation for the
support that you’re giving me I put on a
new video every 5 days so if you haven’t
already please subscribe to my channel
because I’ve got a few things coming up
that I don’t think you’re gonna want to
miss for all of you who are subscribed I
want to say thanks for being one of my
random citizens
I appreciate you and I’ll be looking for
you in a future project video
want to grab someone’s attention you
could try charming the crowd with an
improvised pan flute or you could go for
a more direct approach in this project
we’re turning bottle caps and drink cans
into sports style party whistles that’ll
give you the power you need to summon
the attention you deserve
[Music]
we’re all familiar with the term life
hacks but this summer the guys at Mike’s
Hard Lemonade asked me to help put a
refreshing twist on it with what they’re
calling Mike hacks Mike hack basically a
life hack that makes any social occasion
more awesome I tried hot gluing some
glass bottles together and found it yes
they really can work as a pan-flute it’s
a pretty awesome idea but it could be
pretty messy and take up a lot of space
so let’s try making another kind of
party favor that’s just as awesome but a
little easier to manage we’ll need to
start this project with an empty
aluminum drink can now if we use
something like a pair of scissors to
make some strategic cuts we can harvest
a lightweight sheet of aluminum metal
now before you throw the scraps away
make sure you save a tab or two because
we’ll need those for measurements in
just a minute all right let’s cut a long
narrow strip from the sheet metal making
sure the edges are as straight as
possible
then cut a smaller stubbier piece as
well you can see long strip is the width
of a single can tab while the smaller
piece is as wide and as tall as two
pieces laid side by side we need to join
these pieces together with the smaller
rectangle centered on top about a
quarter inch down from the end the two
sides wrap around the back holding it in
place and now you can snip the top
corners off if you feel like it and
finish up by folding the tab over to
lock everything together
we’ve just formed the mouthpiece for our
whistle now let’s grab the other end of
the strip and push it back through the
mouthpiece being careful not to bend it
you’ll see what we’re going to do with
this in just a minute all right it’s
time to get busy with our bottle caps I
tried using a pair of scissors to snip
the sides and cut a little notch in each
cap so when the two bottoms are lined up
they form a round container with a
symmetrical hole at the top let’s bring
back the piece we made earlier and fit
the barrel inside one of the caps then
expand it so it completely fills the
inside now that we know it fits together
nicely we can line the inside of the cap
with some hot
then place the rounded strip back in
position when the glue is hardened it
should look like this
now this is the point where we form the
noisemaker carefully cut the strip so it
lines up with the top of the notch then
pull the scrap part out of the
mouthpiece there’s only one thing left
to do and that’s to add hot glue to the
other cap and press the two pieces
firmly together making sure the notches
line up symmetrically now for one last
embellishment
I tried cutting one of the tabs in half
and hot gluing it to the back so now we
have the option of adding a lanyard
that’ll just make it fully accessible
anytime we want it the whistle works by
directing air through the mouthpiece and
splitting it over the sharp edge of the
metal not only does it look good but it
actually sounds good too if you try
rolling your tongue when you blow it
will sound a lot like a referee’s
whistle and it’s really really loud well
now you know how to convert your cans
and bottle caps into colourful and
customizable party whistles it’ll summon
you attention when you need it and make
a great conversation piece when you
don’t well that’s it for now if you
liked this project perhaps you’ll like
some of my others check them out at the
king of random calm hey guys this is the
whistle that I just made in this video
and I thought one of the coolest things
I can do is give it to one of you so
here’s the deal all you have to do is
leave your comment below and I’m going
to choose a random comment and ship this
thing in about a week just a little way
to express my appreciation for the
support that you’re giving me I put on a
new video every 5 days so if you haven’t
already please subscribe to my channel
because I’ve got a few things coming up
that I don’t think you’re gonna want to
miss for all of you who are subscribed I
want to say thanks for being one of my
random citizens
I appreciate you and I’ll be looking for
you in a future project video
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