1. Now take the birch bark and begin to make a rattle.
You will need scissors, a pencil and a ruler. On the birch bark we mark the contour of the rectangular patch. 5cm x 10cm.
2. The thickness of the rectangular patch is 1 - 3 mm.
3. Cut 6 identical shreds.
4. Now we will use a planer. You will need to find some wooden blank and make a rounded stick out of it. The length of the stick is 20 cm. The diameter is about 1 cm. If it does not work out with a plane, then you can use a knife.
5. Process the resulting stick with sandpaper.
6. From the residual materials of wood, make bells that make a sound inside the rattle.
7. Let's go back to the 6 sides of the future rattle. In order to connect them, you will need boiling water, which will turn the bark into a tube.
8. When the patches take the form of a tube, remove and begin to connect them at a fast pace. This is the most difficult manufacturing step. One person with two hands will not cope.
9. When the square of the birch bark is obtained, make two holes, on opposite sides, with a diameter of less than 1 cm, to push the bells into it (if you did not do this by connecting the sides) and put the previously made stick into the holes. water. Using a little glue to fix the ending.
10. The remaining gap at the top of the rattle, wrap birch bark. Done!