DIY Paper Pinwheels
Ready for a fun and easy summer craft project you can use both to keep your crew entertained and also decorate for a summer party?
Supplies:
- Card stock
- Scissors
- Extra-long brads (paper fasteners)
- Beads
- Paper straws
- 1/8 inch hole puncher or an extra small pokey stick—think of a small object to poke things, perhaps something in a toolbox, a meat thermometer or even a door key for a bedroom door.
Directions:
- Using a 6-inch-by-6-inch square of card stock, fold the square in a triangle, corner to corner. Repeat with other corner.
- Cut just over halfway along each seam toward the middle of the square.
- Poke a tiny hole about a half-inch down from the top of a paper straw.
- Poke a tiny hole in the middle of the square.
- Poke a tiny hole on the right side of each now triangle.
- Secure the triangles with the brad and place the brad through the center of the square.
- Place the bead on the back of the pinwheel square on the brad before attaching the straw.
- Secure the brad and you are all set to spin!
- Repeat as many times as you want—we ended up with nine in total before my kids were done!
Janelle Cumro-Sultzer lives in Manhattan, Kansas, with her husband, three children, two dogs, eight fish and a frog. Janelle is the owner of Flint Hills Mediation LLC and loves to focus on learning through play and getting messy with crafts.