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Summary: Make a rain stick from cardboard and various household items. Learn how to make musical instruments with your child using everyday items around the house in this free instructional video. Build a rain stick with your kids and play together!
Annie Brunson has a degree in Music and Theater from Bretton Hall (part of Leeds University, England). She has taught piano, oboe, and middle school band. She has also been trained...read more
"Today we are going to learn how to make musical instruments with everyday household items. Today we are going to make a rain stick. So what you will need a lot of different things to put inside it to make a nice sound. I'm going to be using a certain dried peas, rice, macaroni, even gravel, popcorn, and even some old nails, screws, and things like that. You will also need a card board tube something you will get maybe a posture that will be mailed in. so you will need a nice cardboard tube. Also some kind of funnel so you don't make a mess pouring all the things in it and things to decorate it. First thing we are going to do is we are actually going to decorate it. So now I have cover the tube and the next thing we are going to do is actually fill it with all the noise making. It is recommend that you use some kind of funnel. If you don't have a funnel you could use a two liter coke bottle with the end cut off. So now I'm just going to fill the tube with all the items. You want to fill it so it is about 2/3 full you don't want to fill it all the way to the top and you don't want to put not enough in but about 2/3 full is the ideal amount of stuff. Now once you have filled it the next thing is to put your lid on. Secure it with duct tape and you have your rain stick. So once you have filled it up shake it around a little bit to mix all the peas and the different things that you have in it. Then you have your nice rain stick so slowly tip it."
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markgrey said
on 5/1/2009 You skipped over a vital step- You must stick obsticals in the way like nailing lots of nails into the tube.You can put tape or paper around the rainstick to cover up any sharp points.You won't need as many little things that way. The whole thing creates the watery sound. However, this might be more dangerous to make with little kids, so the video up above would be another option.
malu1 said
on 8/2/2008 i like it