Easy to make, bright and colourful these bold pipe cleaner flowers are great for younger kids. Just be sure to help them with the glue gun. Look at them standing there and posing with one leg up. It’s time to recreate those flamingos during your next craft session. I always get sad when my pretty flowers wither. Sure, I love replacing them with fresh ones, but sometimes, it can be a day or two before I get to it.

Once you’ve assembled your popsicle, glue the pipe cleaners in place and allow them to dry completely! Add “ornaments” to your pipe cleaner Christmas trees by stringing small plastic beads on one of your pipe cleaners before you twist it together with the others and begin wrapping your trees. Step Four: Cut a small piece of yellow pipe cleaner about one inch long. Fold into a v shape, place in the centre of the flower and loop through the green pipe cleaner. To secure twist the green one at the base of the flower. Button Flower Bouquet Cut one of your pipe cleaners into thirds. Line up all 3 pieces so they’re side-by-side (parallel to each other). Twist all three together at the center three times to secure. Spread each end out until you’ve formed a star shape. With your second pipe cleaner, cut it into 6 equal pieces, you can use a ruler if you need to. Take one of the small pieces you just cut and twist it around one of the ends of the star-shaped pipe cleaner in a v-shape. You’ll be forming a trident shape. Repeat with the remaining 5 pieces on each of the remaining 5 ends of the star. Tie a string or ribbon around one of the tridents, creating a loop to hang on your Christmas tree! Conclusion This particular craft project is all about bunnies. So maybe you can add these to your Easter decorations.Sure, hand puppets are great, but you only have two hands. But you have ten fingers, so you know what that means? Finger puppets! Just follow the pattern, and you’ll have your little pipe cleaner monkeys ready in no time at all! 13. Dragonflies So, finding pom poms like these for the flower pistils, your glue gun, and the pipe cleaners to get started. 6. Bunny Finger Puppet For this project, you can customize the shape, size, and even the color of your cacti. It’s a very creative way for kids to experiment with 3D shapes, too!

Sometimes, you just have to give in to the urge and make dozens of pipe-cleaner flowers. Once you know how easy they are to make and how much fun you’ll have making them, it can be hard to stop. Well, let’s simplify that game a little, shall we, and make our own DIY fishing game with pipe cleaner fishes? Go ahead and gather these supplies: pom poms, craft glue, sequins and shells, ribbons, magnets and, finally, googly eyes. Once you’ve gathered all your supplies, set out some newspapers to catch any spills. Now you can get started making some snowflakes! 11. Heart Shaped Bubble Wand

27. Pipe Cleaner Trees Christmas Craft

Don’t forget to attach the antennae when you’re done. Just curl a couple of pipe cleaners, then glue them in place, and you’re all set!