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Making : Toilet-Paper-Roll Flowers
9 November 20096 Comments
The other day, we found out how we could actually make nice flowers using … toilet paper rolls.
Simple activity idea for preschoolers using simple everyday things we find at our home!
Check this out!
What we used:
– Toilet paper rolls
– Watercolour
– Scissors
– Satay sticks / wooden chopsticks (the latter is ‘safer and less sharp’, better for younger kids)
What we did:
– Draw straight lines on both ‘ends’, leaving about 1cm in the middle. See top picture.
– Cut out the straight lines
– Fold the lines outwards
– Colour the ‘petals’ with watercolour
– Put aside to dry
– When it’s all dried up, poke the middle part with the stick (and it’ll serve as the ‘stem’)
That’s it!
Simple and do-able, yes?
Happy crafting, everyone!
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Carrin:
Yes, sure is easy to do … 🙂
Usually after arts and crafts, we display what the kids have made for a while (like, 2-3weeks?), eg. in our living room.
If it’s a drawing or something that we can stick on the well, then it goes to our ‘creative works wall’ for a while. When the ‘wall’ gets crowded, then I’d take down the old ones.
Sometimes I take photos of the works first, if I haven’t already, before discarding them.
Siska:
Welcome 🙂
(usually I keep one or two spare toilet rolls around though I have no idea when I’ll use them, hehe… junk-keeper!)
Nic:
Sounds great! 🙂
this is nice and easy to do !! thanks for sharing.
hmmm … wonder if you keep all their craft works or discard them after some time ?
hmm… might try this today if I can find any spare toilet rolls around. thx for d idea
simple n nice! will try it out with Will! 🙂