What you need to make the shakers
- Plastic bottles: 500ml, 330ml, 150ml. Only use bottles that have a screw top
- Dried beans, chickpeas, lentils, rice
The small 150ml bottles with rice will make a light sound like the egg shakers.
The larger bottles with larger beans or grains will make a deeper sound.
How to make them
- Wash the bottles to make sure they are totally clean. If there is a paper or plastic label, now would be a good time to take it off.
- Dry them upside down, and the leave standing upright to get totally dry.
- Put two spoons of the dried food in the larger bottles.
- The 150ml bottles are perfect for a spoonful of rice.
- Screw the top on tightly
Decorate
If you want, you can decorate the bottles, paint them and add stickers.
How to play
Some of the bottles we use are using are bigger than the shaker on the video but they are still played the same way.