How to Decorate Rain Sticks with Torn Paper

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. Another fun way to decorate your rain stick is with torn paper. It gives it a little bit more of a natural look, especially if you want to cover up what's left behind of the glue residue and you don't really want to paint it. The best thing to do is to tear the paper into little pieces, not necessarily strips, leaving no straight edges. You can use a variety of colors, you can use all one color, you can make a design with it. But tear your paper into little strips, I mean, not strips, little hunks. Little pieces of variety of sizes and shapes. If you're really good at it, you might be able to tear specific shapes out of your paper, but you just don't want to leave any straight edges. After you've torn a multitude of pieces of paper of different colors, you can start to put them on your rain stick. What you might want to do is take one particular color and glue it on, maybe in a row so that you have one color here, and then glue another color on and then fill in like a mosaic, until your entire rain stick is covered with little pieces of torn paper. You can experiment on your work surface first and make a design that you think would be pleasing, different colors, change it around, then copy it as you glue it onto your rain stick. Just simple craft glue works really well when you're dealing with cardboard and construction paper. You can also use newspaper, tissue paper, tissue paper would be very interesting because it changes colors as it gets wet, or any other paper that you have on hand. It's kind of a fun way to cover your rain stick using torn paper."