Your students will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part activity gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.

Bring music-making activities home or to school. Check out how to guess instruments by their sounds and learn how to make a rain stick at this resource. It gives great directions on what you'll need and what to do.

Ali really loves to make music. Help make Ali's dream come true. Together, answer questions about musical instruments.

Making homemade instruments is always fun for young kids. Help them make these percussion rain sticks using ordinary materials. Kids will have fun decorating and playing their rain sticks.

A great multicultural art lesson plan that also connects visual art to music. Students create a set of paper mache maracas emphasizing rhythm and expression in the painting details. Upon completion students will have the opportunity to...

This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how to make a kazoo out of a cardboard tube.