Things You'll Need:
- Styrofoam cups
- masking tape
- dried beans
- dried rice
- packaging tube
- nails
- hammer
- empty pop bottles
- 12-inch wood board
- rubber bands
- scrap material
- Velcro
- Christmas bells
- needle and thread
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Step 1
Fill a Styrofoam cup half way with dried beans. Use masking tape to attach a second Styrofoam cup upside down over the mouth of the first cup. Decorate the cups with marker or paint. Presto, you have a maraca.
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Step 2
Make a colorful rain stick. Punch nails into a cardboard packaging tube following the seam on the tube. Put approximately 50 to 75 nails in, depending on the size of the tube. Glue on one end of the tube. Pour one cup of dried rice into the tube, and then glue on the other end. Decorate the stick using paint.
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Step 3
Take two pop bottles and tape them together using masking or duct tape. Put about half a cup of water in one of the bottles. When your child blows into the two bottles, it will create sound. Experiment with creating different sounds by adjusting the amount of water in the bottles.
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Step 4
Take a board approximately twelve-inches long and hammer five nails in a straight line across one side. On the other side of the board, hammer in five more nails directly across from the first five. However, each of the second five nails should be at a different distance on the board. Connect each pair of nails with a rubber band. Instant guitar.
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Step 5
Measure a strip of material to fit snugly around your ankles and wrists. Cut the strips to size, and put self-adhesive pieces of Velcro on each side so they will attach on you like bracelets. Then sew Christmas bells to the outsides of the strips so when you put them on your ankles and wrists they jingle as you move.
