Supplies for Making Rain Stick

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Hi, this is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. In order to make your own rain stick, 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. I am going to show you a wide variety of supplies and later on we'll talk about different styles of rain sticks and also different ways to decorate them. The first and most important thing you need is some kind of a tube. If you don't happen to have a dead cactus lying around there are many different things you can use. This is a mailing tube you can purchase this is many mailing place or a post office. It has ends already which are very nice you don't have to create them, but it is something you may have to purchase. You can also use paper towel holders, you can use toilet paper holders, or you can use the tubes that come on wrapping paper, any tube will do. This tube is two paper towel holders together. So you have your tube. Now you?re going to need something to stick in your tube so that your filling will filter through rather than just falling all at once, again there are a wide variety of things you can use. You can use push pins, you want ones with a flat end but you'll want one with a big head that you can push into the cardboard to start, you can use nails, you can use tooth picks, or if your working with children and you don't want to use hammer and nails or pins, you can use aluminum foil, and you can also use a piece of chicken wire. So you need a tube and you need something to filter the sound as it falls through the tube. Your going to need some rubber bands for decorating and also some for putting the ends on the tube, you'll need a pair of scissors if you are going to use nails a hammer, and you will need something to mark the places on your tube where you are going to put the filtering mechanism and then you will need something to put in the tube to sound through. You can use little pebbles, you can use rice, dried beans, something like lentils, bird seed, anything that is small and hard and won't fall through your tube. If you live in a damp climate you might want to consider using little pebbles because they are not going to absorb moisture, and then after your done with your tube, your going to want to decorate it and you can do something as simple as just painting your tube with tempera paints or acrylic paints, to putting something with texture on it, covering it with construction paper or fabric, using craft paper, paint, crayons, using yarn, using jute, even sand. So to sum it up, you will need a tube of some kind, a filter agent of some kind, something to fill it with that will make the sound, and what ever you want, what ever your imagination can come up with to decorate your rain stick. Are your ready to get started?

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