toys created byMoroccan children

musical toys

document made for the Facebook group

toys created by children

Celebrating children’s creativityin their self made toys froma multicultural perspective

www.sanatoyplay.org

Jean-Pierre Rossie

2009

Moroccan children make a lot of musical instrumentsamong which percussion instruments

are predominant

Gnaoua rattlesAnti-Atlas, 2006

they imagine themselves the most popular music group of the region

Sidi Ifni, 2005

pupils playing a drum for the throne feast

Goulmima, 1996

talented drummers

with thedrum of

goat skinthey made

themselves

Anti-Atlas2005

drum made by a fourteen-year-old boyAnti-Atlas, 2005

training to be a drum kit player in a

wedding feast orchestra

Sidi Ifni2005

traditional types of percussion instruments made by adults and related to the ashura feast

Marrakech, 1992

children’s drums for the ashura feastmade by potters

Kénitra, 1994 Sidi Ifni, 2007

children’s percussion instruments

Midelt, 1999 Sidi Ifni, 2008

whistlemade with a flower’s

chalice

central Morocco1999

paper whistle Midelt, 1998

whistles made from pieces of tin canAnti-Atlas, 2006

penny whistle

region of Tan-Tan

2007

Marrakech, 1992

Tiznit, 2007

flute Tiznit, 2007

penny whistle cut from a

plastic tube

region ofTan-Tan

2007

oboemade with

waste material

Midelt, 1999

herdsboy playinga violin

he madehimself

Middle Atlas1999

top and bottom of the violin

violin and

guitar

Anti-Atlas2005

guitars

Anti-Atlas, 2003

‘lotar’made by

an adolescent

Pre-Sahara2007

wood, old pan, goat skin,spirals of an exercise book and nails

young star of popular

songs

region ofTan-Tan

2007

traditional rattlesAnti-Atlas, 2007

toy rattle of waste materialAnti-Atlas, 2005

but the toy industry is more and more getting the upper hand

Marrakech 1992 Sidi Ifni, 2008

Sidi Ifni, 2005

© Jean-Pierre Rossie

all photos taken by the authorexcept the photos of slides 15, 18 and 26

taken by Khalija Jariaa