Searching for ways to up the festive factor of Canada Day? Check out these easy and fun kid-friendly crafts:
Canada Day Pinwheel
What you'll need:
Paper
Glue
Desired materials for decorations
Scissors
Straight pin (or push pin)
Pencil with an eraser on top (or a length of dowel)
Instructions:
• Cut out a square from a piece of construction pape. Make it festive by decorating it with Canada Day themes (such as maple leaves), or glue a piece of red construction paper to a piece of white paper, so the two colors will be displayed on your craft.
• Fold one corner to its opposite corner in order to make a crease, unfold, and then take another corner and fold it to its opposite to make another crease. When you unfold it again you should have two creases on your paper that form an X.
• Cut along each of the four crease about three-quarters of the way to the centre. Bend – do not fold, just a gentle bend – one of the cut corners to the centre. Leave the next corner and then bend the one after that to the centre. Alternate like that until four cut corners are gathered at the centre.
• Place the eraser of the pencil at the back of the centre point.
• Take a straight pin and stick it through the gathered corners into the pencil eraser (you can also do this by gently hammering a push pin into a dowel or any wooden type material that can serve as your handle).
Wind tube
What you’ll need:
Paper
Glue (or tape or staples)
Hole punch (or anything that can help you punch through paper)
String
Ribbon
Hook (or anything that you can hang the tube from)
Bells (optional)
Instructions:
• Using construction paper, Bristol board, or foam, form a cylinder. Before you fasten it with glue, decorate your paper.
• Punch two to four holes on the top edge of the cylinder and then weave string, twine or ribbon through the holes to make a handle. You can either hang your tube by this handle or you can tie an additional length of string to the handle and fasten the other end of that string to your hook.
• Punch holes along the bottom edge of the cylinder and tie red and white ribbons through those holes – these ribbons will blow in the wind.
• If desired, attach bells to the ribbon, for a chime effect.
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