Make A Rainstick At Home

Feel free to use a funnel to make this easier for the kids to do.

Make a rainstick at home. To make these rain sticks we gathered the following supplies. 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. Different materials will make different sounds as they plink against the wooden skewers.

Follow our crafts for kids pinterest board. They sound magical but they can be a little on the pricey side. A good mix is lentils and something larger like red or white beans. Rain sticks are those fun instruments that you turn upside down to make it sound like rain.

Don t overfill the rainstick or you won t be able to hear the individual sounds of the objects. Fun and easy and not expensive at all. Learn how to make your own in this video. Here s how to make a rainstick using a cardboard tube and some crafting materials.

Homemade rainsticks make a great craft for kids and a fun science activity too. Who can resist picking up and listening to a cool rain stick when you randomly see them at a store. So make sure to mix and match what you use inside the rainstick to get the sound you want. You can even use broken up spaghetti if you don t have any toothpicks at home.

You ll find more weather related activities on my weather unit study page. Use pebbles of different sizes pennies dried rice dried beans beads and any other items you like. 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. Today i m showing you how to make kid friendly rain sticks that actually work.

Make your own rain sticks. The kids love the creative freedom of being able to decorate their rainsticks and especially love using. One 16oz empty and dry water bottle 1 2 cup rice half a box of toothpicks. 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. The kids loved making this homemade instrument and using it to explore sound.