You can make a homemade football game noise maker with a paper towel roll, small amount of beans or rice, and two small pieces of cardboard, and paint or anything you want to use to decorate it. The little man's veteran preschool teacher grandma made the noise maker with him, and we later had fun painting it in prep for watching our Denver Broncos win a spot in the 2014 Super Bowl! Here's how to do it...
First, cut out two round pieces of cardboard to cover the openings of the paper towel roll, glue one to one side of the paper towel roll to close up the hole, put some beans or rice in the paper towel roll, and then glue the other piece of coardboard to close up the other side. Let dry completely. I like to use tacky glue for things that really need to stay stuck on.
Below you can see that the peice of cardboard doesn't have to be the exact size of the opening; it can be a little bit bigger.
Even though we do projects on an art mat to protect the table, I still like to lay down a piece of large cardboard for easy clean up, and so that paint can be put right on top of it.
Working away...
The younger your kid is, the faster they will find something more interesting than the project, lol. You can generate some new ideas, like we started applying dots to the noise maker instead of just strokes, but soon enough, they will want to explore in their own way, which is certainly part of the process.
Don't expect even the majority of the paint to end up on the noise maker if you have a toddker, but they will live playing with it regardless.
Oh, and go Denver Broncos!
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