Sunday, September 7, 2008

Windmills made of paper

What you need:

Ruler
Scissors
Pencil
Pins with large heads
Small beads
Stiff colored paper
Pencils with erasers on the end or pieces of wooden dowel

What you do:
1. Using your ruler measure and draw to equal size squares on two different colours of paper.
2. Cut out the squares.
3. Using the ruler, draw two diagonal lines across each square so that they cross in the middle. Cut 2/3 of the way on each line towards the center.

4. Holding the squares of paper together, bend the paper back along each cut line toward the center. Hold the corners with your fingers until you have all four corners folded into the center.
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5. Push a pin through the centre making sure it goes through all four corners. Then slip a small bead on the back.
6. Push the pin into the eraser of a pencil or the doweling.
7. Blow on your windmill and watch it spin!

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