Make A Rainstick At Home

You can even use broken up spaghetti if you don t have any toothpicks at home.

Make a rainstick at home.

Follow our crafts for kids pinterest board. To make these rain sticks we gathered the following supplies. Use pebbles of different sizes pennies dried rice dried beans beads and any other items you like. Here s how to make a rainstick using a cardboard tube and some crafting materials.

Subscribe to our channel click here http bit ly 2lsle5w rain doesn t ever have to go away with a rain stick. Homemade rainsticks make a great craft for kids and a fun science activity too. Several years ago me and the kiddos made our own rain sticks and we loved how they turned out. The kids loved making this homemade instrument and using it to explore sound.

Make your own rain sticks. The kids love the creative freedom of being able to decorate their rainsticks and especially love using. They sound magical but they can be a little on the pricey side. Fun and easy and not expensive at all.

So make sure to mix and match what you use inside the rainstick to get the sound you want. Pour the rice into the bottle. One 16oz empty and dry water bottle 1 2 cup rice half a box of toothpicks. Rain sticks are those fun instruments that you turn upside down to make it sound like rain.

Feel free to use a funnel to make this easier for the kids to do. Don t overfill the rainstick or you won t be able to hear the individual sounds of the objects. Fill the rainstick about 1 8 1 4 with objects. Learn how to make your own in this video.

The lentils travel through the tube the fastest because of their small size while the red beans follow slower but continue and raise the sounds to a much larger and louder sound. Who can resist picking up and listening to a cool rain stick when you randomly see them at a store. A good mix is lentils and something larger like red or white beans. How to make a rain stick.

To make a rain stick start by getting a cardboard tube and covering one end with a piece of construction paper. Then hammer toothpicks or nails into the cardboard tube and pour some rice dried beans corn kernels or beads into it.