Starting today, I'll have a new tip every Tuesday. It will often be new ideas for past Songs of the Month, or homemade instruments. Today I'm posting an idea for a homemade rain stick. I used an empty plastic water bottle, aluminum foil, and rice.
Cut several strips of aluminum foil and loosely crumple them into ropes small enough to fit into the neck of the water bottle. kind of twirl them as you insert, so they wind around as they go in. The more "ropes" you put in the bottle, the more surfaces the rice will hit as it goes down. Add a couple of inches of rice, and replace cap on the bottle. Slowly tip the bottle, and you will hear the sound of rain as the rice makes it's way over the foil down to the bottom. If you leave the bottle un-decorated, as I have, children can see what's making the sound. Of course you (or better yet, the children), can decorate the bottle with anything from paper, colored tissue paper, ribbon, tape, string, stickers, or anything else you can find.I have left mine un-decorated so kids can see what's making the rain sound.
You can also use a stick or pencil and run it across the ribs of the water bottle and you have a guiro (Latin percussion instrument).
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