This year, celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a little shake, rattle and roll! Now you can join in the rhythm with a pair of homemade maracas!
4 plastic cups
1 cup beans or beads
green tape
scissors
yellow sticky foam
red sticky foam
REMEMBER THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS WORK UNDER ADULT SUPERVISION. SOMETIMES WE USE THINGS THAT CAN BE HARMFUL, LIKE SCISSORS, SO DON'T EVER ATTEMPT TO MAKE THESE CRAFT PROJECTS ALONE.
- Take 2 plastic cups and fill one of them with beans. You can also use beads or rice.
- Place the second cup on top of your first cup - with the open ends facing each other - and tape the two together. You can use regular tape and some paint if you don’t have green tape. Trim the excess tape with your scissors and press all along the seam.
- Take some red and yellow sticky foam and cut them into decorative shapes. Try cutting 2 zigzag shapes out of your yellow foam. You can always use paint to decorate your maracas if you don’t have sticky foam.
- Peel the backing off the zigzags and stick one to each end of your maracas.
- Take your red sticky foam and cut out two small strips.
- Remove the backing from both strips and place them above the yellow zigzags, around the bottom of your cups. Trim the excess.
- Repeat the whole process on your second maraca.
