WAGGS (Stock photo) |
Secure safety pin to stick first! |
The first was our caterpillar. We broke a Popsicle stick in half and secured a safety pin around the middle with medical tape.
Finished Caterpillar pin |
Finally, we glued googly eyes to the front pom-pom or head. The most difficult part of this little cutey was letting the glue dry! The girls were so anxious to get their hat crafts on, some forgot glue needs a chance to dry to hold the pom-poms on. hehehe. We used Felt Glue and Alene’s because they really are the best for the fluffy stuff. But even the tackiest glues need a chance to dry before you start wearing your creation.
Figure 8 for wings |
Find the centre of the wing colour by folding the pipe cleaner in half. Then, bend each of the ends of the pipe cleaner down to the centre and twist it on. When you’re done, you’ll have something that looks like a figure 8 or a set of glasses. When you hold the side of the loop, the twists shouldn’t come undone.
Lay thorax colour across wingspan |
Next, push the side walls of the loops into the centre. It doesn’t have to look like wings at this point. You’ll use your thorax piece of stem to bind the wings into 4 quadrants that can be shaped later. Take your body colour and lay it cross-wise across your wings like this.
Twist the thorax colour around antennae |
Next, fold your antennae stem colour in half and place on your wing/body piece so that the antennae piece will become trapped when you start winding/twisting your body colour around to secure everything in place. We found the easiest way to do this was to wrap one end around and around from top to bottom, then the second end from side to side.
Finished Butterfly pin |
Next, pull the wings open and shape them. They should be nice and secure in the body pipe cleaner now. Shape your antennae (some girls used their finger to make the loop, some used a pen) and add a safety pin to the back or wing: you’re done!
Bug Off Fly Swatter:
Overexposed, but you get it, right? |
This one was super cute and super simple to assemble. Using a piece of plastic canvas, cut out a piece that is 6 squares wide by 8 squares tall. Then on each of 2 parallel ends cut off a 1×2 grid. This is where your handle goes. You’ll be left with this:
Finished Fly Swatter Pink |
Next, twist the pipe cleaner all the way to the end. The fly swatter itself is done! Now add drama by gluing a bug on. We found these cute bumble bee push pins at the dollar store. We removed the pin part with a set of wire cutters. Alene’s Tacky glue was good and tacky for this project and once it dried, the results were adorable!
Some imaginative ideas at the other craft stations too; check out the Firefly Night Light (put a glow stick inside the bottle!), the Butterfly Sun Catcher and the Pet Rocks they made: