How to Decorate Rain Sticks with Craft Paper

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. One of the many ways in which you can decorate your rain stick is to use craft paper. If you don't like the lines that are left behind from the paper towel or from whatever tube you're using but you want to keep it to the natural color, craft paper is a great choice. You have a couple of options. You could cover your tube with craft a paper first, and then paint and decorate on the craft paper. Or you can decorate the craft paper before you put it on the tube. That's what I would rather do. So, you want to take your craft paper. Put your tube in it. Roll it out so that it comes to the edge, and then give yourself just a little bit beyond the edge so that you have an overlap. Mark it. And then so that your edges will be nice and straight roll it out a little more. Fold it at the mark. Keeping your edge straight, make a nice crease. Recap your pen so it doesn't run out of ink or dry up. And cut your craft paper. Once your paper is cut that way, then you want to cut it the length that you want for your tube. If you have both ends of your tube secured, you want your craft paper probably to go all the way to both ends. So you're going to do the same thing. You're going to mark slightly on the inside to slightly on inside of your tube so that it doesn't overlap. Fold it and cut it. And now you're ready to decorate. As I said, there are one of two ways you can do this. You can go ahead and glue it onto your tube before you decorate it and decorate it once you're on your tube. Or, you can lay it flat and take your paints and make your designs on your craft paper before you put it on your tube. For me that seems to be a simpler way to do it because it's a little more difficult to work on your tube. There are many different things that you can do. You can use crayons. You can use paints. You can use markers. And you could simply just make lines or designs. Whatever you would like. You might even take a sponge and put it in your paint and make sponge designs. When you're finished, you want to cover your tube with craft glue. Wrap your craft paper around it. Use a couple of those rubber bands to secure it. And wait until it's dry. If you've painted it, and your rubber bands would interfere, just put on some paper clips."