Today we had steady, heavy rain and wind gusts up to 60mph! When Mitch got home tonight he had to head up and down the street to hunt down our blown-away garbage cans. I was so glad that today wasn't a school day for the boys and that we didn't have to go out in this storm! We stayed in our jammies all day and did a few craft projects in keeping with the crazy weather theme. Sawyer kept looking outdoors and telling me, "Mom, this sure is quite a rainstorm!"
We started by covering paper towel rolls with construction paper. Normally I would have had the boys paint them, but I was too lazy today to deal with cleaning up a paint mess :)
Start decorating your tube...we used dot markers and stickers
Take a sheet of aluminum foil about as long as your tube, and crunch it up loosely
This sheet of foil actually ended up being a little too crunched up, so learn from our mistake! It ends up sounding more like real rain if the foil is a little bit looser. Insert the foil into your tube. Cut two circles from construction paper, and use one of them and some strong tape to close up the end of the tube.
Pour about a 1/2 cup of uncooked rice (or beans or pasta or whatever you have on hand) into the tube, and then use your last construction paper circle to close up the other end.
Viola! Turn the tube gently from end to end to hear the sound of rain!
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