The instructions for bamboo wind chimes are shampoo-simple if you buy the bamboo wind chime ready-made. Hang it up where there is a breeze and where it won’t fall down a lot. Rinse. Repeat if necessary. The instructions for bamboo wind chimes that you make yourself are a whole different gust of wind.

Gathering Materials

Wind chimes have been around for thousands of years. One of the reasons is that they are relatively easy to make. Bamboo was the all-purpose building material in the Orient, so bamboo was a natural choice for wind chimes. These instructions for bamboo wind chimes can also be adapted for other materials like metal, pottery, wood and even shells.

You need sting or wire, at least four varying lengths of hollow bamboo, something to serve as a clapper (what hits the bamboo) and a disc at the top to hold the lot together. You might want the clapper made out of bamboo, a light link chain with a knot at the end or another substance. It has to be heavy enough to survive multiple impacts but light enough to be moved by a breeze.

You might want to paint or decorate the bamboo tubes, but test them to see if that significantly changes the sound. You might want to put a kind of waterproof coating on the bamboo tubes or leave it alone.

Put A Lid On It

You’ve seen wind chimes. If you don’t have instructions for bamboo wind chimes in a craft book or printed from a web site, you can pretty much figure it out for yourself. You need a disc of some sort –flat or a cone – that you can attach all other the wires, chains or strings to. You might need to drill holes in it. It does not have to be bamboo. Thread wires through the bamboo lengths and the clapper and then trough the disc holes. Tie them above or below the disc, whatever works better for you. You might want to try to pull all the wires a few inches through the disc and then tie them all together so you can immediately hook the chimes over a branch or a hook. Or you might have another attaching device in mind. The instructions for bamboo wind chimes are not set in stone (no pun intended…heck, I lied. Pun was intended).

The hardest part will most likely be determining where the clapper should strike the bamboo tubes. Try tapping many areas of the bamboo tubes to get the right length of chain or wire for your clapper.

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