It's 90 degrees here today and it definitely doesn't feel like Fall. However, I'm not going to let that stop me from making some more Fall crafts, like these paper pumpkins! Here's to wishing for crisper air, sweaters and apple cider.
materials:
pipe cleaners
scissors
paper of your choosing
small hole punch
get to work:
1. Fold your paper in half and cut 1" strips. (You'll need about 10 1" x 4" strips).2. Bring all the strips together in a nice and neat stack. Using the hole punch, make a small hole at one end of the strips.
3. Poke the pipe cleaner through the hole and bend it at the end so that they strips stay on.
4. Punch a small hole in the other end of the strips.
5. Splay out the strips (you can tell the kids to make it look like an octopus).
6. Place the pipe cleaner through the hole of each piece, one by one. The pieces should fold up and over the pipe cleaner. (This is the part that children seem to have the hardest time with so they may need extra help).
7. Once all top holes are through the pipe cleaner you can begin to spread out the strips making your pumpkin. ( You might want to pull the pieces up or down on the pipe cleaner to make it more pumpkin like).
extra:
This is a great project for helping children learn to cut. If you'd like, you can draw cutting guide lines on the paper before cutting it up, so that they may follow them as they cut their strips.
Max's ever growing pumpkin and Fall leaf collection.
