How to make easy Christmas craft
CHRISTMAS is a time for family, gifts and food.
Most of us look forward in beautifying our homes during Christmas. What better way to do it by creating your own decoration. This way it will bring more meaning to your day and plus you get to share the joy of creation with your loved ones.
Kids, bring out your thinking cap and your creative mind and let’s start creating a masterpiece for Christmas.
Here is a Christmas decoration idea you can try out when you have the time. Plastic Bottle Wind Spiral Mobile This plastic bottle wind spiral mobile is perfect to hang on your Christmas tree. This is a cross between process art and a craft and it is a great activity for preschoolers through to tweens.
Plastic bottles are always something we have in our home, so we had lots to experiment and have fun with.
We used acrylic paint as it sticks straight onto the bottles. We have also used sharpies to colour bottles for our plastic bottle lanterns. If you use acrylic then you need to make sure that you do not get it on to clothes or furniture as it can stain and if you do that you wash it in cold water first as not to set the colour.
Materials:
Plastic bottles; Paint; Paintbrushes; Scissors; Wooden stick; and String.
How to make a plastic bottle wind spiral mobile
Take the caps off your bottles, take the wrappers off and allow to dry out;
Then let the kids loose with the paint and watch them have lots of fun. I did this with a five-year-old and a 10-year-old and they both had a blast. We talked about patterns, how the paint didn’t go in the lines easily and generally just chatted and laughed whilst the bottles were painted;
Then you need to allow your bottles to dry – which was the hardest part for the impatient five year old!;
Cut the bottom off the bottle (this is easiest with a craft knife, so needs to be done by an adult or an older child under supervision);
Starting at the bottom of the bottle, cut a spiral up and around the bottle until you reach the spout area;
Place the spout opening of the bottles on a stick;
Tie the string onto the ends of the stick and hang the water bottle wind spiral mobile in the garden and watch is spin in the wind; and
Just take a look at it blowing in the wind. It would make a great bird scarier for our vegetable patch.
“Love the giver more than the gift.” - BRIGHAM YOUNG