Making New Year's Eve a special evening for the kids can be great fun for both of you. Explaining to them that it's a celebration of the coming new year can be done in a conversation while you're making your noise makers for the party. These are also crafts that can be done for music too!
1 clean, empty toilet paper roll
1 small sheet of wax paper
2 rubber bands
small handful of dry beans
small handful of dry rice
Decorative items like; markers, feathers, glitter, glue, etc.
Take the empty toilet paper roll and cut a piece of the wax paper so that's it's about 1/4 inch bigger than one end of the cardboard roll. Cut a second piece of wax paper to match the first.
Place the wax paper on one end of the cardboard roll and fold the excess down the sides of roll. Secure the excess paper gently with the rubber band. (You want the rubber band tight enough to keep the paper taught but not so tight it bends the cardboard.) Put your dry beans and rice down into the tube. Repeat the same process with the wax paper on the other end.
Give it a shake to make noise. Decorate the outside!
2 very sturdy paper plates (styrofoam or very thick paper ones)
small handful of dry beans
small handful of dry rice
glue
decorations
Put your dry beans and/or rice on one plate. Put glue all around the edges of the plate. Take the other paper plate and turn it over so the plate is facing the inside of the other plate and gently lay it on top. The edges should be glued together.
Let it dry thoroughly and decorate!
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