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DIY ocean squid windsocks

by This crafty family | Jun 1, 2020 | All crafts, Animal crafts, Crafts, Ocean crafts

Todays craft has been so much fun, how adorable are these DIY ocean squid windsocks? My son is still crazy about all things under the sea and has been particularly fascinated by one creature for ages. It’s easy to see why he finds squids so interesting, there are many different types and each one looks so odd and unique. He loves learning about the different types and Weve been watching some of national geographic’s squid videos on YouTube this morning. So we thought perhaps it might be nice for us to make a squid themed craft for him to play with in the garden.

Here’s what we used

Coloured card
Scissors

Glue
Crepe paper
Black marker

How to make our DIY ocean squid windsocks

First you will need to take your coloured card. Line one end with glue and then roll it round to make a tube

Use your scissors to round the top end of your tube into a curve.

Place your tube onto another piece of coloured card. Draw a raindrop shape around your tube so that it starts around halfway up and extends a few cm above your tube. Cut out your shape and glue it in position as you can see a above

Cut out some strips of crepe paper and glue them around the inside of your tube so that they hang freely down. You’ll notice that we made two of the front strips slightly longer and on these we cut out some rounded shapes to make the suckers.

Cut out two white circles for the eyes and then use your black marker to draw on the pupils. Glue your eyes to your tube. So that you can hang your squid up, you will need to make a hole on either side of your squid’s body. Cut off a length of string and then thread each side in through one of the holes and in to the centre. Tie the two loose ends together inside your tube.

To finish off our squid we added a dab of glue at the bottom of each of side of our rainbow shape. We then folded it inwards so that it stuck to our tube giving it more of a curve and making it more secure.

All that’s left to do now is to wait for a windy day so that you can see your squid in action! Aren’t they just the cutest?!

Here are some more crafts that you may enjoy

Paper plate orca

Paper plate Narwhal

Snail and the whale craft

Paper chain octopus

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Magic star suncatcher craft

by This crafty family | May 30, 2020 | All crafts, Crafts, Spring Crafts, Summer Crafts

Magical star tissue paper suncatcher craft for kids

For todays craft we decided it was time to use up some of our mountainous pile of tissue paper. We’d recently made some cute rainbow suncatchers and decided it would be nice to add some more colours to our windows. My son decided that we should make some stars. I find stars a pain to draw (I can never get them equal), so we made our star template on the computer and have also added it below to make our cute magic star suncatcher craft that little bit easier for anyone else who has the same problem! I think these suncatcher crafts are loads of fun and hopefully we will have some more to share soon!

Here’s what we used

Black card
Star shape template (optional)
Tissue paper
Crepe paper
Scissors
Double side tape

How we made our magic star suncatcher craft

First you will need to make your star shape outline. To do this you can either free hand draw a star and then draw another star inside at a 1-2cm gap or you can print, cut out and draw around our star shape. Once you have drawn your star you’ll need to cut it out.

Place your double sided tape around the edges of your star. Then cut out some strips of tissue paper, stretch and stick them tightly across the centre of your star.