Making a Homemade Recycled Baby Noisemaker

You can make a baby noisemaker for an older baby or a toddler out of recycled material and household items.

Babies and toddlers love rattles and noisemakers. They learn cause and effect, when they shake or move the object, it makes noise. For babies 12 months up to toddlers that are 18 months, try this easy recycled baby noisemaker.

Materials for Making a Homemade Recycled Baby Noisemaker

an empty water bottle with a cover
superglue
dried beans, peas or lentils

How to Craft Homemade Recycled Baby Noisemaker

Toddlers like to walk around with empty water bottles as much as they like to make noise.

Take an empty water bottle that has been allowed to complete dry out. Either use a large water bottle, or a smaller one that is used to hold a child size portion of water.

Selecting Beans for the Homemade Recycled Baby Noisemaker

Next, find some dried beans in the cabinet. If you don't have any dried beans in the cabinet, you will want to purchase some. For under a dollar a bag, the beans will find plenty of uses in future craft projects for toddlers and children.

Pour some beans out into a bowl or on a papertowel. Pick out any stray stems or tiny grains of sand that sometimes find their way into bags of dried beans. Take a handful of the dried beans and drop them into the empty water bottle.

The type of sound that is made with the dried beans in the bottle can be changed depending on the level of beans put in and the size and shape of the beans.

A child that is interested in music and rhythm may enjoy a whole variety of these homemade recycled baby noisemakers. By having homemade recycled baby noisemakers the child can explore different noises.

For example, using lentils in in the homemade recycled baby noisemakers will create one of the quieter sounds. Using a larger bean like a black bean or a white bean will make louder noises.

The level of noise created can also be controlled by how many dried beans are dropped into the homemade recycled baby noisemakers. A reasonable amount is about 1/8 of a large bottle. If there are too many beans, it may be too heavy for the child to shake.

The more dried beans put into the homemade recycled baby noisemakers, the quieter the sound.

Also experiment by mixing different dried beans together. Not only will this create different sounds, it will also be colorful.

Completing the Homemade Recycled Baby Noisemaker

Squeeze superglue in the water bottle cap. Screw the cap on tightly. Leave the cap and bottle to dry for at least 24 hours to ensure the cap is secure.

Give the homemade recycled baby noisemaker to a child and get ready to dance.