I loved playing with pinwheels when I was younger. This was a great craft where I got to combine my love of both flowers and pinwheels by making these great daffodils. They are easy to make and make great decorations for the upcoming Spring.
Materials Needed:
- Paper
- Something to color with
- Pencil with eraser at the end (unsharpened is best, I think)
- Push pin or straight pin
- A small bead (like a pony bead)
- Green paint
Instructions:
- Paint your pencil green so it looks like the stem of a flower.
- Print off this handy template that we used
- Take the circle and crimp it along the lines to make an orange cup shape.
- Fold the rectangular template piece on the dotted line to make a square decorated on both sides
- Glue the square together so you have a square decorated on both sides
- Cut on the diagonal dotted lines (don’t cut all the way into the middle).
- Bend each corner to the center dot, but don’t crease your folds.
- Place the cup in the middle of the pinwheel.
- Push a pin through the center into the eraser of a pencil (don’t push it super tight)put a bead in between the eraser and the paper … some people find it spins a bit better this way… I’ve never noticed the difference (maybe it’s the type of pencil eraser? I use fresh, unsharpened school pencils)
- Place it in a vase or pot and decorate your springtime table.
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