Working together

We worked co-operatively with a partner to design, illustrate and make a rain stick, based on the traditional Chilean musical instrument. Our rain sticks were constructed from cardboard tubes, tin foil and rice. In Chile they are traditionally made from hollow cactus leaves, cactus spines and small stones. When you tip the rainstick up, the rice trickles down over twisted spirals of tin foil, inside the tube, mimicking the sound of rain. Please come and view our finished products in the classroom and have a go with them yourself!