Let's make DIY pinwheels, simply not just whatsoever paper pinwheels, allow's make giant ones! This is one of the best summer crafting ideas for kids. Utilize our printable pinwheel template with some simple supplies like colored paper, pin and pencil, to make the nigh amazing homemade pinwheel.

Summertime wouldn't be summer without colorful pinwheels spinning in the cakewalk. We've started making Behemothic Color Popping Newspaper Pinwheels, ready to plant in the bloom beds every bit soon as Sammy Sunshine decides to visit and stay awhile! and yes Sammy nosotros want you to stay for a long while!

giant diy paper pinwheels - three spinning paper pinwheels on wooden dowels shown
Permit's make newspaper pinwheels!

Summer is fast approaching, and we are featherbrained with apprehension in our house. I can't await to spend some extended hours outside with my daughter, after the endless cold, wind and rainy this leap, and with that in heed am making lists of fun diy garden games and Summer Crafts to go along united states both entertained.

DIY Paper Pinwheel Arts and crafts for Kids

The essence of these colour popping pinwheels is the strong color contrast. Onto colorful craft newspaper we glued some contrasting wrapping paper but y'all have a few options when making yours:

    • Invite your kids to paint, postage, describe on the arts and crafts paper to add together a gorgeous individual art patterns to each pinwheel.
    • Layer rows of washi tape or duct tape on the arts and crafts newspaper to add your contrast side.

Short Video: How to Brand Giant Paper Pinwheels

Begin past downloading the pinwheel cut template here

Reduce or enlarge the template for a variety of pinwheel sizes, palm size or giant…. you decide.

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Supplies Needed to Make Behemothic Paper Pinwheel Craft

  • Multiple sheets of colored paper: wrapping paper, scrapbook paper, construction newspaper
  • Glue
  • Ruler
  • Exacto pocketknife
  • Cutting pad
  • Hole punch
  • Small pinwheels: pencil with eraser & stick pivot with beaded finish
  • Behemothic pinwheels: wooden rod, eraser, pivot & button
  • Needle nose pliers
  • Printed pinwheel template pdf on paper size of your choice – see reddish text above to download.

Directions for DIY Pinwheelgiant diy paper pinwheels

Step ane

First glue your dissimilarity paper onto your craft paper, and with a scissors or craft pocketknife use the cutting template to cut out your pinwheel square.

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Step 2

Cutting diagonal lines in from each corner equally shown (don't worry the guidelines for the length of line are on the template).

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Footstep 3

Next punch every second corner, as shown, and another hole in the centre of the pinwheel.

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Step four

Then start folding in the corners.

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Step 5

I put a drop of mucilage under each corner to concur the corners together while nosotros worked on the handle – Miss7 didn't accept the patience to stay belongings!

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Stride 6

Brand sure the holes are all lined upwardly.

Make Pinwheel Spinning Mechanism

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Pocket-sized Pinwheel Spinner

For small palm size pinwheels it's super easy – just bend a pivot and stick it in to the top of a pencil eraser!! so cool!

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Giant Pinwheel Spinner

For the giant ones I used a wooden rod, eraser, pin and button.

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Step 1

And it'due south every bit easy as this – chop a cube off the eraser, dig out a picayune hole in the eraser and push in the stick.

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Footstep 2

Thread the pivot through the pinwheel holes, I used a button in front for two reasons, one because it was a cute i, and two the button would prevent the pivot head making it's fashion back through the holes.
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Step 3

When the pin feeds dorsum through the holes it simply continues through the eraser cube and depending on how long the pin is you lot might need to bend it back through the eraser to protect petty hands from whatsoever pointy $.25!

More Summer Crafts & Fun from Kids Activities Blog

  • Nosotros have a huge selection of 5 minute crafts to cure those little spurts of boredom.
  • Whoa…so many fun summer activities & ideas for summer play.
  • Follow our elementary giant bubble recipe to make the best homemade bubbles…always!
  • Cheque out our big listing of DIY summer crafts for kids…adults dear them as well.
  • Teachers and parents dearest this list as summer crafts for preschoolers.
  • Looking for outdoor h2o games for hot summer days?  Nosotros take you covered and cooled downwards.
  • Download & print these fun summer coloring pages for kids.
  • An ultimate summertime arts and crafts is tie dye!  Bank check out all these ideas for tie dye patters and designs the unabridged family volition love to make.
  • Pinwheels aren't the simply diy air current spinners arts and crafts we have hither at Kids Activities Web log…so many fun things to arts and crafts!
  • Let's make a colorful suncatcher arts and crafts to hang in the summer lord's day.

How large did you lot make your DIY pinwheels?

Michelle McInerney, an Irish based graphic designer and mum of 1, is the craft designer behind award winning web log MollyMooCrafts.com - a fun and colorful online earth of unique and cute crafts for children and their parents.

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