🎶 Rice Shakers
Spoon rice into a bottle, tape it tight, and start the band.
🎨 Create·20 min·Free·Ages 2–4·👶 Easy·🧑 Hands on · 3 min prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Tape the lid shut, no coins, and check it stays sealed. Not for under 2.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Rhythm
- ✓Filling
What you need
2 bottles with lids · Rice · Strong tape
How to do it
- 1.Let them spoon rice into a bottle.
- 2.Screw the lid on and tape it shut firmly.
- 3.Play along to a favorite song.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put 2 bottles with lids, rice, strong tape on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Make whatever they want with it, not what the picture shows.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 2–3 they'll do it their own way, not yours, and stop after five minutes. Both of those are fine.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Give fewer materials and more time — limits make better work.