Pinwheels
Materials
| Construction or other heavy paper
An unsharpened pencil or other stick
Pin with a large head, such as a corsage pin
1 bead such as a 1/4" wooden bead or pony bead
Pencil
Scissors
Quarter |
|
- Cut a square piece of paper (the larger the paper square, the larger your pinwheel will be).
- Fold the square in half to form a triangle, matching the corners
- Unfold the square and fold another triangle, matching the opposite corners.
- Unfold the paper. You should have 2 folded lines forming an X in the center of your paper.
- Use the quarter to draw a circle in the center of the paper. [black circle on diagram]
- Cut the paper on the folded lines to the drawn circle [blue lines on diagram]
Do not cut all the way to the center!
- Gently curl the corners marked with a red dot toward the center of the square (do not fold them!) Poke the pin through each corner [red dots on diagram] and pushing the corner toward the head of the pin. Then stick the pin through the center of the paper.
- After pushing the pin through all the red dots, slide the bead on the pin behind the pinwheel and then push the point of the pin into the side of the pencil eraser or top of the stick you will be using.
|  
|
|