Musical rain sticks

Creating your own rain stick at home

Materials Required

Paper towel roll
Piece of aluminum foil
Plastic cling wrap
Rice or dry beans
Tape (or rubber band)
Craft supplies or anything to decorate your rain stick with

Optional materials

Textas, crayons, coloured pencils

Play experience profile

Ages:
Min Playtime

15 - 30 Minutes
Skills

Creativity, Musical, Sensory play
Energy Level

Quiet Play
Messiness Rating
EYLF Outcomes

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Play Experience Preparation

Tape plastic wrap in place and decorate as you desire.

Experience Steps

Crumple up a long, thin piece of aluminium foil and insert it into the paper towel roll.
Put a doubled-up piece of plastic wrap over one end of the roll and tape to secure in place.
Pour a tablespoon of dry rice into the open end of the roll then seal the end with plastic wrap.
Tape plastic wrap in place and decorate as you desire.

What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience

Weather, rain
Sounds - shake, rattle

Build on this...

How many songs and rhymes can you think of about rain?
Talk about the weather.

WHO guidelines for physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Provide evidence-based public health recommendations for children, adolescents and adults on physical activity. Learn more

Dancing and singing while playing the rain stick encourages movement and wellbeing.

EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF

Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking
Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

EYLF Principle

Principle 5: Ongoing learning and reflective practice. Critical reflection involves closely examining all aspects of events and experiences from different perspectives.

EYLF Practice

Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.