RAINSTICKS

This rainstick lesson isn't just about making art; it's about understanding Native American symbols and culture. Kids read about the use of rainsticks and why specific symbols were used to decorate them. They then make their own...

Second graders read a book together as a class about the rainstick and then use their creativity to design their own. They then will be able to see the connection between the sounds of the rainforest and their own rainstick.

Fourth graders explore the American Indians and the music from their culture. They discuss the music of American Indians and compare that music with the music that we listen to today. Students create rainstick and perform their own...

Second graders read about how rice grows in water and make a rainstick when they are done. In this rice lesson plan, 2nd graders make a rain stick out of rice, posterboard, scissors, glue, and a cardboard tube.

Students create rainsticks. In this rainstick lesson plan, students use rainsticks as instruments to create the soothing sounds of rain. This lesson plan contains the directions to creating large and small rainsticks. 

Second graders listen to a read aloud of Sandra Robinson's, The Rainstick, a Fable. They make a rainstick of their own. They compare the sounds of the rainstick with those of the rainforest.

Students research the history of the rainstick and learn how it was originally made. They comprehend the use of the rainstick in various cultures. Students create a replica rainstick and decorate it in authentic Native American designs.

Students add digitally-produced, water sound effects to a song, using electronic keyboards.

Students construct a rainstick. In this music activity, students investigate the history of the rainstick by reading the book Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema. Students express their feelings about the rain and...

Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.