Craft Club #1

I signed up for craft club this year and we completed our Halloween/Fall craft this past Thursday. The club is open to Grade 4 students since our school is huge so we had to pick one grade. Also, students in this age group are capable (for the most part) and don't seem to suffer from the "I'm too cool for school" syndome yet. We meet for each special holiday.

I found this cute idea on Pinterest: (the picture is an actual one from our club)

 Materials needed: 

• pipe cleaners
• orange beads
• pencil crayon for curling

Step 1: Twist the middles of 3 pipe cleaners together. We used white ones but ideally orange would be best. But whole packages of orange pipe cleaners turned out to be impossible to find.

Step 2: Open up the pipe cleaners so they resemble a star. 

Step 3: Put the beads on each pipe cleaner section. We did 15 per section but you could adjust this accordingly.

Step 4: Bring all sections together so they meet at the top and then twist.

Step 5. Hide the white by wrapping a brown pipe cleaner around it. This will be the stem.

Step 6: Curl a green ribbon around the stem leaving the ends loose to look like leaves. We used a pencil crayon to make them curly.

Step 7: Throughout this activity bend the sections to make them as round as possible and to look like a pumpkin.

They turned out great! The best part of this activity was that there was minimal clean up. No one dumped beads and it was completed in less than 1 lunch recess (only took around 30 mins.)

Happy Fall!

xo
Meg