Rockas!

Easy-peasy!

We did a quick one today. My son calls them "rockas" (maracas). We washed out our yogurt cups from lunch, and filled about a 1/3 of the way with popcorn (unpopped of course). I hot-glued cardboard tops on them, that we traced and cut beforehand from a recycled cracker box, and then hot-glued plastic knives left over from my son's birthday party. This took us less than 15 min, and both kids played with them right up until bedtime!

Great entertainment, but our version didn't involve my son too much in the production phase.

I suggest...
If you have any of the clear plastic Gerber baby food containers, to use them. You can be much more creative with the contents of the shakers, with things like colored beads, dried beans, glitter, rice or painted pasta. Then your little one will feel he or she has put their own signature on it, and he or she can see the fruits of their labor. Plus you would already have a lid to glue on and wouldn't have to trace, and cut one out.


We used:
-yogurt cups
-popcorn
-cardboard
-hot glue
-plastic knives

You could also try:
-rice, beans or beads
-plastic baby food containers, or clear fruit cup containers
-popsicle sticks