How to Pick a Tube for Rain Sticks

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jenny from Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to pick a tube that is just right for the kind of rain stick we want to make today and that will depend on how much time you want to put into your rain stick, how long lasting you want it to be and how much you have in the way of materials and supplies. The bigger the tube and the fatter the tube the more you are going to put a sound filter in it and the more filling you are going to have to put into it. By the same token the smaller the tube the less time it will make sound of course. This tube is an excellent tube to use, if you have a lot time and patients. Its a mailing tube and it has ends already so you don't have to make your own end. You can also use nails in this and they will go about half way across so you will have to use a lot of nails in order to have a good sound filtering system in this because you want many, many things in there so that the things that are going through it will filter and take a long time to go from one end of the tube to the other. This is a tube from wrapping paper. They come in a variety of lengths, of course as you know; some are bigger around than others. This you will have to consider if you are going to use toothpicks for example because you don't want to use something that is longer than your tube. You don't want it to protrude from both sides, so if you?re going to use toothpicks this tube might not be big enough. You need to check and see if your filtering system with these nails would work in this tube and pins would work as well. Then of course you might not have those kind of tubes around but you might have the tubes from the paper towels. If you would like for your rain stick to be longer you can just crimp the end of one paper towel tube and gently put it in to the other tube. Kind of scrunch it with your fingers and put it in the other tube. You have one tube that is two tubes long and if you have enough time or patience enough you can also do it with another tube. Then you have one that is almost as long as a tube from wrapping paper and even longer than your mailing tube. You would need less filling in this because it is smaller around. If worst comes to worst and this is all you have, you can do the same thing with your toilet paper holders. Some tubes are thicker, some tubes are thinner, some tubes require nails, some tubes require pins so it really depends on what you have on hand, how sturdy you want your tube to be, how long you want it to last, and how much of the filling you want to put in it. It also makes a difference when it comes to the supplies that your going to need to decorate it. So, let's pick a tube and get started."