Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Pipe Cleaner Creations

TO MAKE PEOPLE

What you Need:


  • 4 yellow pipe cleaners

  • Googly eyes

  • Pencil

  • Fingernail clippers

  • Glue
How To:

Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 1. Make a V with a pipe cleaner and twist a small loop at the top.





Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 2. Twist together the two ends a few times to make the torso.






Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 3. Coil another pipe cleaner around a pencil.






Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 4. Slide the coil onto the torso.






Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 5. Clip a pipe cleaner in half and slide one half through the loop.






Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 6. Bundle a pipe cleaner around a pencil and stick it on the loop to make a head.





Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Peppy People 7. Make loops at the ends of the arms and legs for hands and feet.






8. Glue on googly eyes and pipe cleaner accessories: hair (a C-shaped snippet of brown), a necktie (looped from red) and briefcase (a length of brown bent back and forth).


TO MAKE DUCKS
What you Need:


  • 4 white pipe cleaners

  • 1 orange pipe cleaner

  • Googly eyes or markers

  • Pencil

  • Fingernail clippers

  • Glue
What to Do:

Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Dazzling Duck 1. Connect two white pipe cleaners end to end.





Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Dazzling Duck 2. Bundle the double pipe cleaner around a pencil to make the body. Bundle another white pipe cleaner to make a head.




Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Dazzling Duck 3. Bend the orange pipe cleaner in half. Thread the folded end into the head and out through the bundle.





Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Dazzling Duck 4. Thread the body onto the orange pipe cleaner.






Pipe Cleaner Crafts: Dazzling Duck 5. Bend the ends of the orange pipe cleaner into V-shaped feet. For wings, clip and bend two 3-inch sections of white pipe cleaner.






6. Insert the wings into the body with a dab of glue (if you want) for extra strength. Glue on googly eyes or draw them with a marker.

Need More Ideas?

Go to: http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/
In the search box type in Pipe Cleaners
And it will show you how to make TONS of other people, animals, dinos, and Monkeys!!!

(If you have questions on the wording above, or how to do your Pipe Cleaner creations, CLICK HERE There is a wonderful How to Video)

Have Fun!!!

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