Musical rain sticks
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
Textas, crayons, coloured pencils
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime15 - 30 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
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
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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.
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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.
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