Rain Stick

Mailing Tube with removable lid
Tempera Paint
Paint Brush
Screws
Screwdriver
Scissors
Tacky Glue
3 cups of hard beans (pinto beans work the best)

Paint the mailing tube with a paint brush. Make sure you rinse the brush well between colors in the small water dish.

Allow the paint to dry.

Use the screwdriver to screw the screws into the mailing tube. Do this with all the screws.

Make them spiral around the tube, about 1 and 1/2 inches apart.

Using glue, go around each of the screws to ensure that all of them stay in place.

Fill the tube with the three cups of beans.

Hot glue the lid to the mailing tube.

Make different patterns with the screws. Be original :-)