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DIY Unicorn Dreamcatcher

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This dreamcatcher can be a great gift for a Unicorn fan! It requires only a few supplies, which you might already have at home. Spare a few minutes to make this adorable unicorn theme dreamcatcher!

Materials

  1. Yarn – 5 to 6 Different Colors
  2. Felt fabric – 3 to 4 Different Colors
  3. Scissors
  4. Craft Wire – 16 Gauge
  5. Hotglue Gun
  6. Faux Pearl Beads

Step-1: Determine the size for the dreamcatcher and create the loop accordingly. Wrap the loop using white yarn or fabric; make sure to cover the loop entirely. Use white yarn to create the dreamcatcher web pattern inside the loop.

We love our Unicorn parties around here so much that we decided to create our own DIY Unicorn Party  Pinterest board. Which means we have literally 100’s of our favorite Unicorn ideas, party decorations, Unicorn cakes and other Unicorn tutorials and crafts all in one spot. You can check them all out here DIY Party Ideas – Unicorn.

Or check out these Unicorn Crafts

 

Step-2: Cut out long strands from different colored yarns. Take 4 yarn strands to make a group and make 8-10 groups of yarns strands. Attach the yarn strand groups at the bottom intact side of the loop. You can trim the open bottom edges of the yarns if you want to.

 

Step-3: Use felt fabrics, cardstock papers to create flowers. Keep a nice and balanced color combination of the flowers. Make as many flowers as you’ll need. Cut out the unicorn horn pattern from a foam piece. Cut out a slightly curvy piece from foam piece, see picture of this step. This curvy piece will be the base for attaching the flowers, horns and ears.

 

Step-4:  Cover the top of the horn pattern using golden fabric or paper or paint, which ever supply is available. Attach the flowers on the front side of the base one by one. Attach the ears and then the horn at the back side of the base. And finally attach the curvy piece on the top side of the dreamcatcher loop.

 

Attach hanging mechanism and done! You can add more details if you want to.

Enjoy!

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Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town. 

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why. 

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble. 

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings. 

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school. 

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!). 

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town. 

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again. 

[Photo: Brother]