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Cardboard tube pasta shapes sticky-backed plastic eight lolly sticks scissors paint
Step by step
* Fill the cardboard tube with uncooked pasta and seal both the ends with sticky-backed plastic.
* Carefully cut small slots around the cardboard tube and push the lolly sticks through.
* Paint the cardboard with brightly coloured paint and leave to dry.
* When the children turn the tube upside down, the pasta shapes will get caught on the sticks as they fall, creating a sound like rain.
* As they move the rain stick around the children can also sing songs to do with rain, for example 'I hear thunder' or 'It's raining, it's pouring'.
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