Kids Crafts & Activities

How to Make Mini Paper Fan Earrings for the Chinese New Year

I have another funny way to celebrate Chinese New Year : let’s make a pair of earrings (you’ll need a little help on step # 4). These will be made of paper and will have two very important Chinese symbols : the fan and the cherry blossom. The fan is a traditional Chinese handicraft used for cooling and as prop in the “fan dance”. For the Chinese, the cherry blossom is a very significant symbol of power. It represent a feminine beauty and within the language of herbs and herbal lore of the Chinese the cherry blossom is often the symbol of love.

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How to Make Mini Paper Fan Earrings for the Chinese New Year : Arts and Crafts Project for Kids

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

– paper (not too thin)
– scissors
– ribbon (about 10 cm)
– paints
– paintbrush
– 2 earrings findings
– 2 jumprings
– pencil

Step 1

Cut two square pieces from the paper (about 3 cm on each side)

With the pencil make a line like in this picture…

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…then cut it out.

Repeat for the second square and your pieces of paper should look like this.

Step 2

Take black and pink paint (if you don’t have pink, just mix red and white) and paint black cherry branches and pink flowers on them.

Don’t worry if you don’t draw the same on the two paper pieces. Your earrings will be more funny.

Let the paint dry very well.

Step 3

Take one piece of paper, keep it with the curved side to you and fold the left corner.

Continue folding like in this photo…

… and one fan is ready.

Repeat for the second piece of paper.

Step 4

Cut the ribbon in half.

This is the part where you’ll need a little help from an adult. Ask him to make a hole on the top of the fan (with a needle)…

… and then open the jumpring, put it through the hole and through the earrings finding and then close the jumpring.

It should look like in this photo.

Step 5

Take one piece of ribbon and put it through the jumpring, like in the photo.

Make two knots…

… and then cut the ribbon letting just a little near the knot.

Repeat for the other earring and you just finished a beautiful and funny pair of earrings that you can wear on the Chinese New Year or you can give them to your mother / sister… on that ocasion, just to bring them luck 🙂

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How to Make Oatmeal Containers Baby Doll Cradles Craft for Kids

If you make a little cradle like this for your favorite doll, you can be sure she won’t disturb you during the night with her crying. This oatmeal container / box cradle is very easy to make and it really turns out great. Have fun!

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How to Make Oatmeal Containers Baby Doll Cradles Craft for Kids

Crafts Materials Needed:

– oatmeal box

– cardboard

– ruler

– pencil

– magazine cut-outs

– glue

– scissors

– paints and brush or crayons

Step 1

Remove the cover from the oatmeal box and save it as you will need it later.

With a pencil and ruler, mark off 2 and 1/2 inches from the bottom of the box, for the hood of the cradle.

Cut away the upper half of the remainder of the box. Directly in the center of the under part, and one inch from each end, make two crosswise slits, a little more than one inch in length, as in the illustration above.

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Step 2

Cut two rockers from cardboard, with a small tab at the top, as in illustration B.

Step 3

Fit the tabs of the rockers into the slits in the under part of the cradle. Try your cradle, it should rock nicely.

Step 4 (Optional) : Decorate Your Cradle with Paint or Decorative Papers or Magazines

Glue the cover back onto the box for a footboard. Paint the cradle and allow it to dry thoroughly. To decorate the cradle, glue on magazine cut-outs, or decorate with colored wax crayons, as in illustration C.
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How to Fold a Paper Jet Airplane with Folding Pictures and Directions

Today, we will show you how to fold a paper airplane jet. There are 7 illustrated steps, that are also lettered to make it as easy to follow as possible for kids and others. You might want to actually letter your paper to make it easier for you to follow. Ask for your parents help if you can’t follow the pictures. Have fun.

How to Fold a Paper Jet Airplane with Folding Pictures and Directions

Step 1

(1) Fold Your Paper in Half

Step 2

(2) Open Your Paper and Bring ‘A’ to Center Fold and Crease.

Step 3

(3) Bring ‘B’ to center fold and crease. Now bring ‘D’ over to the center fold and crease on line ‘C’-‘E’.

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Step 4

(4) Bring ‘G’ over to center fold and crease on line ‘C’ – ‘F’.

Step 5

(5) Your shape now looks like this. Leave it in this position.

Step 6

(6) Now fold along line ‘C’ to ‘H’ so that ‘E’ falls on ‘F’.

Step 7

(7) Place your shape in position shown in picture above. Bring ‘E’ down to ‘H’ so edges meet. Crease along line ‘C’ – ‘I’. Turn shape over. Fold top edge down to bottom edge in the same way.

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How to Make Paper Lantern for The Chinese New Years Celebration

The Chinese New Year is coming up and this crafts project reminded me of a Chinese Paper Lantern. Today, we will show you how to make this easy-to-make arts and crafts project. These are also great for birthday parties, Christmas decorations, and other joyous get-together celebrations where you need fun decorations. Have fun..the instructions are below.

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How to Make Paper Lantern for The Chinese New Years Celebration

Crafts Materials Needed

– Sheet of colored paper 9 inches and 6 inches wide

– Scissors

– Ruler

– Glue or Paste

– ( Optional ) Jar Cover Lid and Tape

– String to String Up the Lantern to a Tree or Something Else

Step 1

Take a sheet of colored paper 9 inches and 6 inches wide and draw 2 lines 1/2 inch from each edge as shown in Figure 1.

Step 2

Then fold the paper in the middle lengthwise. Now cut the paper as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. These lines measure 1/4 of an inch apart. After all the cuts have been made, cut off the left-hand strip marked A in Fig.2.

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Step 3

Now open the paper. Figure 3.

Put paste on the end tabs, marked B and C, and bend the cut paper to form a circle. Paste end tabs B and C to those marked D and E. When this has been done you will have a paper lantern like the one shown in Fig. 4. Add a handle to the lantern. It is then ready to be used for a Halloween, a Christmas tree, The Chinese New Year, or garden party decoration.

If desired, a jar lid / cover may be used for a bottom to your paper lantern. This cover must fit exactly into the space at the bottom of the lantern, and be pasted or Scotch-taped into place.

Now String up those paper lanterns to help celebrate The Chinese New Year, or other fun party get-together…such as a birthday party.

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How to Make a Toy Soldiers Parachute with a Paper Napkin Crafts Idea

Today we will show you how to make a toy parachute for your toy soldiers. If you don’t want to hook this to a toy soldier, you can use a cork instead. It’s fun to make a parachute and more fun to see it float downward as a real parachute does. It’s easy to make, too.

How to Make a Toy Soldiers Parachute with a Paper Napkin Crafts Idea

Crafts Materials Needed:

– Paper Napkin
– 4 Lengths of String, each 12 inches long
– Cork

Step 1

Ask your Mom or Dad for a paper napkin. Then find 4 lengths of string, each 12 inches long. Also find a small cork (ask your Mom or Dad if they have one that you can have). Tie a piece of string to each of the 4 corners of the napkin.

Step 2

Then tie the loose ends of the strings around the cork. Later on you can hook it to a toy soldier or guy…but first use the cork to see if it works.

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How to Play With Your Toy Soldier Guy’s Parachute

Ask your Mom or Dad if it is okay that you stand on a chair. If so, find a chair, stand on it, hold the parachute by the middle of the top of the napkin, then drop it. Down, down it will float the floor. If you aren’t allowed to stand on a chair, then toss it up in the air and sometimes this works just as well.

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How to Make Color Wheel Spinning Toys Craft Idea for Kids

This is a good arts and crafts activity to teach kids about colors (and it is a lot of fun to play with). Kids will be so surprised when they find out that when they spin the toys, the colorful rainbow of colors turns into a charcoal gray. You can teach kids a little bit of science and lit bit of art with the use of this crafts project. Have fun.

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How to Make Color Wheel Spinning Toys Craft Idea for Kids

Crafts Materials Needed

– Cardboard
-String
-Crayons or Paint
-Scissors

Step 1

Take a piece of white cardboard, and from it cut a circle about 3 inches across.

Step 2

Now from the middle of this cut another circle about 3/4 inches across.

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Step 3

Divide the circle into 7 equal parts, and paint or crayon the sections with the colors of the rainbow : red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Step 4

When this is dry, make a large loop of string and put it through the round hole of the card.

How to Play With Your New Color Wheel Spinning Toy

Now hold the ends of the loop one in each hand. Now if you turn the string at one end as if you were turning a skipping rope, and then suddenly pull it tight, your card will revolve very rapidly, and you will find that instead of a colored card you have what appears to be a light grey one. This is really a little piece of science, for it shows that the white light about us is really made up of the different colors of the rainbow.

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How to Make a Miniature Desk for Your Dolls House Craft for Kids

Do you want to make a desk for your dollhouse so that the dolls can actually open up the drawers and put things int he desk? This is a great craft that actually turns out fantastic. I hope you enjoy this diy dollhouse furniture miniatures tutorial for kids.

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How to Make a Miniature Desk for Your Doll House with Empty Match Boxes for Kids

Crafts Materials Needed:

– 6 empty match boxes

– cardboard, 8 by 4 & 3/4 inches

– decorative paper

– 6 buttons

– paint

– glue

– scissors

– tape measure or ruler

Step 1

Glue three match boxes one on top of the other. Do the same with the other three match boxes. These will be for the drawers of the doll chest.

Step 2

Glue decorative paper all around the two separate sets of match boxes. Paint the ends of the inside parts of the match boxes the same color as you will paint the cardboard for the top of the chest.

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Step 3

Paint the cardboard a color either matching or contrasting with the decorative paper. Glue it on top of the match boxes. There will be 3 inches between the two sets of match boxes.

Step 4

Glue on pretty buttons, or beads, as indicated in the illustration, and your chest of drawers will be finished.

Finished Desk of Drawers for Your Dolls

This is what a finished doll house desk looks like. I hope that you had fun and that your drawers desk turned out incredible! See You Later!
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How to Make a Shoe Box Doll House Arts and Crafts Project for Kids

Today we will show you how to make a really great toy doll house out of shoe boxes and other materials. This little two-story doll house with its gabled roof can be made in less than a half hour by any handy boy or girl. To make it you will need the following materials below.

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How to Make a Shoe Box Doll House Arts and Crafts Project for Kids

<<Crafts Materials Needed:>>

– shoe boxes

– ruler

– cardboard

– pencil

– scissors

– glue or paste

– paints (optional)

– lace paper doilies (optional)

– brush (optional…needed only if you paint)

– fancy paper (optional…needed only if you want to wallpaper the inside of the house)

Step 1

Remove the covers from four shoe boxes of the same size, and throw them away as you will not need them. Glue one pair of shoe boxes together, end to end.

Glue the second pair of boxes the same way.

Step 2

Place the boxes with the open ends towards you, and glue the second pair over the first to make a two-story house.

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Step 3

For the roof, measure a piece of cardboard two inches longer than the width of the house. ( When the roof is folded and placed over the house, the overhang will be one inch on each side. Cut out the roof. Fold the roof section exactly in half, the long way, as in illustration A.

Step 4

For the gables of the roof, cut two triangular pieces of cardboard, with a little flap on each of the three sides, as in illustration B.

Bend the flaps back.

Step 5

Glue the bottom flap to the box top, and the two other flaps to the underside of the roof section. Do the same to the gable at the other end.

Step 6 : Wallpaper or Paint (Either is Optional)

Paint the inside of each of the four rooms a different color. Allow them to dry thoroughly. If you like, you may glue fancy paper to the walls of the rooms, instead.

Step 7 : Cut Out Windows and Curtains

Cut out windows, and glue pieces of lace paper doilies inside the windows, for curtains, as in illustration C.

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Making Unity Placemats Craft for Martin Luther King Day Activity

This is a great project to do while thinking about Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Specifically the quote “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” This craft can help remind us that all colors, whether they be the colors on a piece of paper, or the colors of our skin, can work well together and create wonderful things. This would be a good project for parents and kids to do together while they discuss the importance of Dr. King’s words. It involves a lot of cutting so I would not suggest this as an “all-by-myself” craft for children under the age of 10.

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Making Unity Place Mats Craft for Martin Luther King Day Activity

The crafts materials you will need are:

Safety Scissors (or have an adult use sewing scissors)
5 sheets of construction paper (I just picked mine randomly)
Tape
Laminating sheets (if you want it to last longer)

You will pick one color to be the base of your placemat and you will cut it so that one edge is untouched and there are eight strips coming off of it. You will take the other four colors and cut them so you have 8 pieces that are one and a quarter inches by nine inches (or however wide your construction paper is) and weave them together. Follow these instructions:

Step 1 : Prepare your base color

Fold base paper in half lengthwise and cut, leaving about one inch at one end.

If unfolded it should look like this. Notice how it's not quite cut in two?

Fold in half again lengthwise and cut, leaving the same amout on the same end.

If unfolded it should now look like this, with four strips.

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Fold in half one more time and cut, you may need an adult to help since you will be cutting through 4 thicknesses of paper by now. Make sure to leave the inch at the end!

Now it should look like this and you're ready to start weaving. If it doesn't look like this, see if you can figure out where you went wrong and try again. This may take a time or two to get right, so don't get discouraged!

Step 2 : Prepare your accent colors

Now take the four remaining colors, square them up, fold in half SHORT way and cut. Set aside one half, you won't need it. Then fold again the same way (shown here) and cut again. Set one of those halves aside. Now, fold the last piece you have in half again the same way and cut. You will need all eight of these. Square them up.

You should be left with a pile that looks like this. 4 large rectangles and 4 medium rectangles which you can set aside to use another time, and 8 thin rectangles for this craft. But they're still just a little too big.

So cut just a little off of one side of the eight rectangles you have. About a quarter of an inch. The pieces you are left with should be 1 and a quarter inches. If it's not exact, that's ok.

Step 3 :Weaving

Now we're going to start weaving. Take your first strip and put it under the top strip of the base color, then over the second strip on the base color and so on. Slide it as close to the begining of the base color as possible. You may find that your base color strips aren't quite even and now is a good time to snip a little more so the strips you're weaving can fit in there snugly.

Now you're going to take your second color and put it OVER the first strip in your base, and then under the second and so forth. Push it as close as you can to the first color.

Keep weaving back and forth so you end up with a checkerboard pattern. You may find it easiet to start at the open end of the base color and wiggle it across to the side with the rest of the colors. You will find your own favorite weaving technique, but be careful not to tear the paper.

Step 4 :Taping the base

When you have finished weaving tape the open end of your base color so your alternating color strips won't fall out. Then straighten your color strips as best you can. Don't worry, no one can get them to look perfect.

Step 5 : Taping the accents

Once they are all in the right places tape each one in place at the ends.

Step 6 : Laminating (if you wish)

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I Have a Dream Wall Hanging “Poster” Martin Luther King Day Craft

For Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday, why not make a poster or wall hanging full of your dreams? This craft can be done at home by one or two children on construction paper, as in the example, or as a class project, if you use poster board. The age of the children doing the craft can decide what kind of “dreams” to fill it with. A preschool or kindergarten child could put memories of bedtimes dreams they’ve had, whereas older children can put what they want to be when they grow up, wishes for their own future, or put dreams more like Martin Luther King’s.

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I Have a Dream Wall Hanging “Poster” Martin Luther King Day Craft

Craft Materials Needed:

Construction Paper or Poster Board (blue, for a sky)
Crayons, Colored Pencils, or Washable Markers (if you have permission to use markers)
White paper (for sheep)
Safety scissors (be sure to ask for help if you’re not allowed to use scissors by yourself)
Tape, glue stick, or glue

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How to Make a Peace Handprints Flower Craft Idea for Martin Luther King Day

What is Equality? What is Peace? Peace is to get up in the morning and your mommy and daddy will welcome you with a smile. You have good friends and you can play and have fun with them. You have dreams that one day will be true…Every children on this word wants those things. Think at Peace as a beautiful flower. How this flower will look like? You can make this to celebrate the great Martin Luther King Jr. on Martin Luther King Day.

How to Make a Peace Handprints Flower Craft Idea for Martin Luther King Day

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

– paper
– scissors
– pencil
– colored paper (pink, light brown, dark brown, green)
– glue

Step 1.

We take the pink paper,

Place your left hand on it,

And draw it’s contour with your pencil.

Step 2.

Take the scissor and cut out the drawing.

Now you have a paper hand.

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Step 3.

Repeat the steps 1 and 2 using the brown papers, so, in the end you’ll have 3 paper hands, to use as petals.

Step 4.

We want to make a flower… what every flower have? You said steam? Yes, you’re right! So, let’s draw a steam on the green paper. You can add some leaves too.

Step 5.

Take the scissor and cut out the steam and the leaves.

It really looks like a plant 🙂

Step 6.

Apply a thin layer of glue on the back of the steam and leaves,

Then place it on the white paper.

Take care to put the steam low enough to let space for the flower.

Step 7.

Apply the glue on the back of the paper hands too and place them on top of the steam.

That’s it! The Peace flower…

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How to Make a People Peace Dance Paper Cutout Craft for Martin Luther King Day

Because Martin Luther King Day is approaching, I think we should remember that, even if we are looking different, we are equals and we wish for the same things in life. One of those things is PEACE. Today, Laura from Dacian Moon Handmade will be showing you how to make a Peace Dance out of paper.

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CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

– paper
– scissors
– pencil
– colored pencils

Step 1.

Take one corner of the paper and bend it to the opposite side.

Step 2.

Press well the edge…

… and then, with the scissor cut the remaining part of paper.

Step 3.

Now, we have a triangle. Set it on the table with the peak to you. Bring the right corner over the left one, like in the picture.

We have now a smaller triangle. Press well the new formed edge.

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Step 4.

Set the triangle on the table with the bigger edge to you.

Then bring again the right corner over the left one.

Now, we have an even smaller triangle who have on one side 3 corners one over the other, and on the other side, only one corner.

Step 5.

Let the triangle folded, with the 3 corners one over the other in the left.

Draw with the pencil two silhouettes – one girl and one boy, like in the following picture.

Step 6.

With the scissor cut out the silhouettes from the paper, following the contour. First the lower part…

… then the upper part. Take care at the hands of the silhouettes because they should be merged, so don’t cut them on the paper edge.

On this point you should have :

Step 7.

Look at the boy’s hand. You’ll see that can be opened:

Gently, pull the detachable corners and you’ll have 4 kids.

Repeat that and …

Mmm, it looks good. Look very carefully: can you open it more?

Yes, you can !
Now, you have the “peace dance”.

Step 8.

The last step:

You can play with coloured pencils, to make the dance full of joy. Don’t forget to make kids with different skin colours, because we are all equals, we like to play, to dance… we like Peace. I begin to play with colours. What are you waiting for?

… and most important: HAVE FUN!

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How to Make Chinese Abacus for Chinese New Year or 100th Day of School

I noticed that there are 2 holidays / events coming up – The Chinese New Year and The 100th Day of School. I think that the Chinese Abacus could be a craft to tie both of these 2 celebrations together. The Abacus uses 100 beads and was created by the Chinese people who called this calculating instrument a Swan-Pan. In face, in some countries an abacus is still widely used to add and subtract. The following step by step arts and crafts instructions will guide you the parent, teacher, child, or whomever through the process of making this Abacus. Have fun.

How to Make Chinese Abacus fro Chinese New Year or 100th Day of School

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

square box

string

small colored beads

pencil

ruler

nail

Step 1

With a pencil and ruler, mark off 10 even spaces along one side of a medium-square box, about 1/2 inch down from the top. Do the same on the opposite side of the box.

Step 2

With a nail, make a small hole at each mark.

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Step 3

Pull one end of a piece of string through the first hole, and tie it securely with a knot.

Step 4

String 10 colored beads on the string and fasten the other end of the string, across the box, to the first hole on the other side.

Step 5

Do the same with 9 other pieces of string, placing 10 colored beads on each row. If you like, you may use a smaller box and string 7 colored beads on each row, which will make your counting toy like the ancient Roman abacus. On another note…you don’t have to use colored beads the way we did, you can use a different colored bead on each row…or vary different colors on every other row…it is completely up to you.

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How to Make Paper Windmills with Paper Modelling Craft Instructions

Today, we will show you how to make a cute paper windmill. Below you will find two printable paper models. All you will need to do is cut and fold the model into the proper shape. Have fun.

Below you will find 2 pages to print. These are diagrams to print out….then you will need to cut them out. Fold on the dotted lines and glue on the tabs. The picture of the windmill (above) is what you will want your windmill to look like so base your folding on that picture. You might want to draw windows / ladders on the windmill too…to make it unique to you. If you want your windmill to spin….you will need a paper fastener (one of those things that you push it through the paper and close it on the other side.)

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How to Fold Paper Windmills craft for Kids — Click on The Above Picture to Print Out the First Set of Instructions

To attach the windmill blades to the windmill structure, use a paper fastener so that it can spin. If you don’t have a paper fastener, you can either use two buttons sewed on either side of the paper so that it can still turn, or you can just fasten it with glue (in which case it won’t be able to spin)

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How to Make a Confetti Blowing Pipe to Celebrate Festivities and Parties for New Years Eve

Tomorrow is New Years Eve so it is time to party (partaaaaaaaaaaaay). So how about making a toy confetti pipe to make cool little fireworks to celebrate the upcoming New Year. We will show you how to do this with the easy illustrated steps below. Have fun.

How to Make a Confetti Blowing Pipe to Celebrate Festivities and Parties for New Years Eve

Crafts Materials Needed

..Pins

..Stiff Paper or Card Stock Paper

..Colorful Paper

..Scissors

..Glue or Paste

Step 1

Take a strip of stiff paper 3 and 1/2 inches wide and 11 inches long. Cut a hole in one end. Fig 1.

Step 2A

Paste the 2 lengthwise edges together to form a hollow tube as seen above in fig. 2A

Step 2B

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Pin up the open end nearest to the hole. Figure 2B.

Step 3

Cut the bowl of pipe in the form of Figure 3, making it about 4 inches across the widest part. Slash the lower edge.

Step 4

Now paste the pipe-bowl into a funnel shape by bringing the 2 sides together in figure 4.

Step 5

Fasten the bowl over the hole in the tube. Glue in place as seen in figure 5.

Step 6

cut a bunch of gold, silver, red, blue, yellow, green, and all different types of colorful paper into VERY small pieces. The brighter the colors, the more sparkling and intense the colorful celebratory fireworks will be.

To Play With This Toy Confetti Maker:

To play with this toy, place the open end of the pipe stem to your lips and blow. Grab more paper confetti or take it off the floor and place it back into the pipe bowl. Re-blow the toy confetti pipe.

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How to Make 6 Pointed Snowflakes and Stars Step by Step Craft for Kids

It is Winter time and since we just had a big snowfall, I thought it would be a good idea to show you how to make these fancy 6-pointed snowflakes that look like fancy stars. These can are a bit more complex than the normal stars / snowflakes. I have tried to simplify it for you below by showing you every single step of the process in an illustrated fashion. Have fun.

Arts Materials Needed:

..Paper

..Scissors

Step 1

If you don’t have a square piece of paper, then take a normal sheet of paper and fold the bottom right corner over towards the left until it forms a triangle. Draw a line where the triangle ends. This is where you need to cut the paper to form a perfect square piece of paper.

Step 2

Now fold the square piece of paper in half.

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Step 3

Now that you have a rectangle piece of paper. You are going to have to fold the piece of paper on the triangle dashed line that you see above. You are either going to have to imagine it or lightly draw it so you can fold it this way…below we have illustrated it.

Step 4 Illustrated in Detail

Step 5

Now this is what your piece of paper should look like after you have folded the piece of paper as detailed in pictures above.

Step 6

Now fold the paper in half lengthwise so it now looks like a kite or diamond.

Below we have four different Snowflake designs for you to cut out. Feel free to make your own designs up. The dashed lines are where you should cut.

Snowflake Stars : Design #1

Snowflake Stars : Design #2

Snowflake Stars : Design #3

Snowflake Stars : Design #4

How to Make 6 Pointed Snowflakes and Stars Step by Step Craft for Kids

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