How to Use Newspapers to Make Rain Sticks

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Hi, this is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. Another simple way to make a sound filter for your rain stick, especially if you're working with young children, is to make wads of paper. Just take a newspaper and wad it up and get it as tight as you can. Now if your tube is relatively small like this one, that wad is going to be too big, and you won't be able to filter things through. So you're going to have to judge how big of a wad you make by how big around your tube is. So can experiment with it. Try different sizes. You may be using one of these larger tubes. You may be using a tube that comes from wrapping paper, and in that case this big of a wad would work. But for this little tube we're probably going to want wads of paper that are about this size. OK. You'll just drop it down in the tube. Now if it's going to be this small, for this tube you'll want to cap the end first. Just put something over it and secure it with a rubber band so that you can fill your tube with wads of paper. The point of the wads of paper is so that if you put rice or something small, bird seed in it, it will fall between the wads of paper and filter the sound as it goes. You may have to experiment several times, but it's newspaper and you're done reading it anyways. So, it's not going to cost you anything but a little bit of time and maybe some inky hands. Once you've filled the tube with as many wads as you think you will need, go ahead and use whatever it is you're going to fill it with, whether it's bird seed or any of the other fillings. Put a little bit in it. Hold your hand over both ends and simply try it and see if it has the sound that you like. If you feel that your filling is moving through too rapidly, then you're going to want to put more paper wads in. And if it's not moving fast enough, you simply take some of them out. A very simple, inexpensive, easy way to make a sound filter for a rain stick.

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