Project: Pin Wheel Card

image by Heather Holbrook

I wanted to share with you the instructions for this fun Pin Wheel Card I made recently.

Supplies:

cardstock: yellow, rust, orange

double-sided pattern paper 3″x 3″

button

string

small dowel, stick or skewer 3 1/2″ long

“smile” stamp (from Close To My Heart “April Word Puzzle” set)

rust ink pad

large glue dots

foam squares

Directions:

-cut orange cardstock in half and fold in half for card base

-trim rust cardstock to 5 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ and trim yellow cardstock to 5″ x 3″ and adhere both to card base

-stamp “smile” word with rust ink onto yellow cardstock

-turn patterned paper over to backside and draw an X with a pencil from corner to corner, cut along all four lines about half way towards the center of the X (see picture below)

-turn cut patterned paper over and apply a glue dot in the center, fold down every other point and adhere in the middle (see photo below)

-tie string through button holes and adhere button to middle of pin wheel

-glue stick to center of card

-apply foam squares to back of pin wheel and adhere to card front on top of stick

image by Heather Holbrook

image by Heather Holbrookimage by Heather Holbrook

image by Heather Holbrook

Hope you try out this fun card for yourself!

-Heather

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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.

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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.

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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.

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[Photo: Brother]

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