Make A Rainstick At Home

One 16oz empty and dry water bottle 1 2 cup rice half a box of toothpicks.

Make a rainstick at home.

The kids love the creative freedom of being able to decorate their rainsticks and especially love using. Follow our crafts for kids pinterest board. The kids loved making this homemade instrument and using it to explore sound. Here s how to make a rainstick using a cardboard tube and some crafting materials.

Use pebbles of different sizes pennies dried rice dried beans beads and any other items you like. Different materials will make different sounds as they plink against the wooden skewers. Make your own rain sticks. Rain sticks are those fun instruments that you turn upside down to make it sound like rain.

You ll find more weather related activities on my weather unit study page. A good mix is lentils and something larger like red or white beans. Fun and easy and not expensive at all. Don t overfill the rainstick or you won t be able to hear the individual sounds of the objects.

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. To make a rain stick start by getting a cardboard tube and covering one end with a piece of construction paper. They sound magical but they can be a little on the pricey side. Fill the rainstick about 1 8 1 4 with objects.

Then hammer toothpicks or nails into the cardboard tube and pour some rice dried beans corn kernels or beads into it. Feel free to use a funnel to make this easier for the kids to do. Who can resist picking up and listening to a cool rain stick when you randomly see them at a store. Subscribe to our channel click here http bit ly 2lsle5w rain doesn t ever have to go away with a rain stick.

You can even use broken up spaghetti if you don t have any toothpicks at home. Several years ago me and the kiddos made our own rain sticks and we loved how they turned out. To make these rain sticks we gathered the following supplies. Pour the rice into the bottle.

So make sure to mix and match what you use inside the rainstick to get the sound you want. Homemade rainsticks make a great craft for kids and a fun science activity too.