Make Music With Your Child: a Homemade Rain Stick in 5 Easy Steps

A great way to entertain your little one on a rainy day while spending quality time together exploring music and sounds.

What You'll Need:

• Aluminum foil roll

• Aluminum foil

• Duct tape

• Small bowl of rice/small pasta

• Wooden spoon

• Funnel

5 Easy Steps:

• Tape one end of the foil roll with duct tape

• Fold an aluminum foil piece into a strip, then help your toddler twist the foil strip around a wooden spoon handle to a snake shape

• Help your child insert the foil snake into the roll (without the spoon)

• Help your child pour the rice/pasta into the funnel and into the tube

• Tape the second end of the tube with more duct tape

Make the Most Out Of It!

• Enjoy quality time doing craft and exploring sound and music!

• Show your child videos of different rain sounds -rain in the forest, jungle rain, rainstorm, soft rain – and talk of how the same things might sound quite different.

• Get creative together with your child! Color and decorate the rainsticks with different colors, washy tape, and stickers!

• Try making a few rainsticks with different “fillings” – lentils, small pasta, rice etc. and explore the different sounds they make.

• Play songs you like and let your child play along is an amazing way to make your little one engage with music!

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