HOW TO MAKE A RAINSTICK

In order to make your own rainstick, you really need a very limited amount of supplies and almost anything that you need as far as supplies, you probably already have at home.

The first and most important thing you need is some kind of a tube.

You can use paper towel holders. Any tube will do. This tube is two paper towel holders put together.

So you have your tube.

Now you are going to need something to stick in your tube. You can use nails, you can use tooth picks.

Then you will need something to put in the tube to sound trough.

You can use rice, dried beans, something like lentils, anything that is small and hard and that wont fall through your tube.

And then, after youre done with your tube, you are going to want to decorate it and you can do something as simple as just painting your tube with tempera paints or acrylic paints... using craft paper... paint, crayons

Now, lets make the rainstick

Draw dots on the tube.

Hammer the nails on the dots

Something like this

Cover one end of the tube with a cardboard

Now, lets put some rain in our rainstick

Here come the rice, dried beans or lentils

Glue the other cup onto the end of the rainstick

Decorate the rainstick