Arts and Crafts: How to make a bean tambourine.

How to make a bean tambourine.
What you need: Two stiff paper plates. Dried beans. Yarn (enough to go around the plate). Hole puncher. Crayons or markers.

Have your child color the back of both plates. When done, put plates together face to face. With the hole puncher punch holes around edge of plates. Match holes in plates so yarn can go through both plates. Tie a knot at one end of yarn. Pull yarn through a hole and down another and so on. If you have a big needle, and your child is old enough, you can thread it this way as well. When the yarn is almost around plates fill the inside with beans. Afterwards close up rest of holes with yarn and tie shut. So beans can’t come out of tambourine sew shut with another piece of yarn starting from the other side of plate. This project is for children ages four and up.