Easy
kids Christmas ornament is fun to make and cool!
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Kids Propeller Core
Christmas Ornament |
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The finished size is about 1.75 inches
high.
It's round! Made of 8 propeller blades that kids can
decorate first and then put together.
2 versions - ready-to-color ornament or already colored
ornament.
This is smaller and simpler than our propeller strip
ornament.
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Grade 2 through 6th grade |
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Unusual materials:
String
2 large beads or macaroni
Optional candle
Optional plastic needle
Optional glitter and glitter pan
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OPTION: Teacher plan ahead
and cut the strings the night before class and work in a dab of glue on
each sting end. Lay on plastic or wax paper. Let them dry stiff and straight. |
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Follow instructions in order
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1B. Glitter if desired. |
2. Cut all propeller on heavy solid lines
(to the large center circle) and mini straw box.
Each piece coming out from the center is called a blade. |
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| 3. Put glue on mini straw glue space. Make
mini straw by rolling pencil as shown. Tape to hold glue. Remove
pencil. |
4. Punch holes in all small circles
on propeller blade ends.
5. Fold over 1 propeller blade end near the center to get your
paper punch to the center hole. Punch center hole.
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6. Gently pick up the whole propeller and
turn it over (colored side down) .
7. Get your string and bead. Put the bead on the string.
8. Even up the ends. Tie the bead in the center of the string
just by crossing the string and looping the ends over each other
and pull
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9. If you have a candle, press the ends
of the string into the unlit candle and pull out to coat the tips
with a bit of wax. Repeat if needed to keep the ends from fraying
if you did not prepare the string in advance. This is not a foolproof
method, but it helps stiffen ends and inhibit fraying. Squeeze
your fingers on the string to the ends, pressing the wax into
the string fibers.
(See
plan ahead glue tips)
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10A. Take both ends of the string and put them
through the center hole in the propeller from the colored side
to the uncolored side. Lay it all on the table – |
10B. Though at this point if you pull the strings
around in the air gently, the propeller blade will twirl and it
is a lot of fun. |
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at the center 0 on the blank side. 12.
Take both ends of the string and push them gently through the
straw. Be patient.
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13. Take any propeller blade end and put
the strings through it’s hole from the uncolored side
out to the colored side.
The straw becomes a spacer. |
14. Put a dab of glue on the 0 that
has the strings through it.
15. Repeat steps 13 and 14 for all the blades. It does not matter
what order they are in.
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16. Press all the ends down toward
the straw.
17. When all are strung, add the other bead to one string and
press it all the way down to the straw.
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18. Tie the string and pull the tie
all the way down, pressing the bead as close to the straw as
possible without ripping anything. Double knot the string.
19. With the free ends of the string, tie
them together over a glue stick or fat marker or 3 fingers of
another student to make a loop. Cut off excess string. |
Lower images are this propeller ornament.
Upper images are larger propeller strips ornaments. |
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Click the button below the image to get Propeller
Core Ornaments here:
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Colored Propeller
Core Ornament |
Propeller Core Ornament to color |
Instructions
without photos |
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Faith Kids
Sunday School Bible Bytes: Kids Sunday School Christmas activities and Bible
crafts for kids:
Free kids Christmas ornament to make.
from the Sunday School Director of Christian Education of Faith Congregational
Church, Mount Prospect, Illinois
©Jo Dibbern
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This page created on November 28, 2011
