Handmade rainstick

Handmade Rainstick Tutorial ☔️

One of my instruments in this months Waldorf Magic is a handmade rainstick! So simple and lovely for little hands to help make (swipe to see the little ones effort with a hammer today) it’s already a massive hit in our home and will live with our musical instruments for song, story time and play.

To make one you will need:

☔️ The inner tube from tin foil or similar (quite long and thick cardboard)

☔️ Small tacking of panel pins

☔️A Hammer

☔️Tape

☔️ A funnel and handful of dried beans and pulses

☔️ A watercolour painting (we did blue wet on wet yesterday

☔️ Glue.

1 • Tape one end of your tube with sticky tape.

2 • Hammer your panel /tacking pins in one at a time, you want them a couple of centimetres apart and rotating around the tube, so hammer one, then turn the tube and hammer the next, continue to the end.

3• Use your funnel to add the dried beans - don’t over fill, hold you hand over the open end and tip it - do you like the sound? Add or remove beans, even add panel pins if you want more of a rain sound.

4 • When happy tape them other end, coat the tube in glue and roll your painting around the end from, securing with tape along the edge to hide the pins.

Have fun making a rain stick, decorate how you like and don’t forget to tag me in any makes I would love to see!