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Make a Rainstick
You don't need any special craft materials to make your own rain stick, everything you need can be found around the house. You will need:
A cardboard tube (kitchen roll tube, wrapping paper tube or poster tube)
Baking/greaseproof paper
Two elastic bands
Rice, gravel, shells, pasta, etc, for the 'rain'
Materials to decorate the rainstick.
Decorate the cardboard tube. You could try glueing wrapping paper over it, painting or colouring it (which may work better if you put a layer of white emulsion on it first and leave it to dry).
Cut out two circles from the baking paper, slightly bigger than the width of the tube. Secure a circle over one end of the tube with an elastic band.
Fill the tube with the rice or other chosen filler material and seal off the open end with the second circle and elastic band.
To work the rainstick tilt it backwards and forwards slowly.
See how using different lengths of tube and different filler materials affects how the rainstick sounds.
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