Rain sticks and storytelling bring out the individual in children

Thursday, July 29, 2010 | 6:42 p.m. CDT; updated 7:14 p.m. CDT, Thursday, July 29, 2010

COLUMBIA — Beans and uncooked pasta noodles exploded into the air from a homemade rain stick whose top popped off Thursday afternoon at the Columbia Public Library. The children gathered around the drummer with their rain sticks shouted in surprise, and the drumming stopped.

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