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 the 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 taping

• 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 thing 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.