Easy-to-Make Tropical Rainstick

A wonderful sensory project for kids and crafts are a great way to work on fine motor skills as well!

You'll need:

• Heavy cardboard tube, different sizes are fine too!
• Caps for the end or duct tape
• Seeds, pebbles, dried rice or other filler
• Pretty paper to cover or brown paper you can decorate with coloring, painting, yarn or stickers!

Directions:

• For older children you can push in nails no longer than the width of the tube throughout the tube this creates the "trickle" effect and great sound!
• Cover  one end of the tube and all of the nail area with tape, clear mailing tape or duct tape is fine
• Pour in beans, lentils, seeds, etc. You don't need a lot!
• Cap off the over end with good tape
• Cover with brown wrapping material (bags or found at dollar tree in a roll)
• Tape on the brown wrapping material
• Decorate the tube with colors, yarn, stickers, paints, whatever!

For younger children that can't help with the nails you can make shakers:

• Decorate your tube.
• Seal off one end.
• Add handfuls of your filler material. Seal off the other end.
• Try different things inside and different size tubes. Turn up and down slowly.

This is a simple craft even little ones can do.

This is a wonderful sensory craft. Young children love the sound and sensations this makes.

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