Kids Crafts With Cone Coffee Filters
Use items from around the house to create original craft projects, and teach kids to recycle objects and think independently. Not everything needs to be used for its original purpose. Cone coffee filters can be used for many different craft ideas. Their absorbent material creates unexpected and random effects when different colored watercolor paints are allowed to mingle and run.
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Christmas Cone Angels
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Coffee cone angels are an easy project for children of all ages. You need two cone filters, one for the body and one for the wings. Flatten out both coffee filters into circles, and make the wings by scrunching one filter in the middle to form a bow shape. Tape the middle to hold it together. To make the body, fold the coffee cone filter in half, then cut a triangle out on opposite sites of the half circle to form arms and a skirt shape. Fold the arms in front of the body and tape into place. Tape the wings to the back of the body then add a head either from a picture cut from a magazine or from a photo of the child making the angel.
Scrapbook Pages
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Coffee cone filters are a useful shape and size to become pages in a scrapbook, and the craft is versatile enough to occupy both young and older kids. Flatten the filters and use one for each page. Punch holes along the closed edges and thread the pages together with ribbon. Use cardstock or heavy construction paper to create sturdy covers for the scrapbook or, alternatively, the first coffee filter cone can be a soft cover. Small photographs, vacation or day-out memories can all be glued or written into the pages. Scrapbooks made from coffee cone filters are quick and cheap enough that one can be made for each special memory.
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Coffee Filter Butterflies
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Bright and colorful butterflies made from coffee filters are a kids craft that's quick and easy to do. You'll need one cone coffee filter for each butterfly, a clothespin and a black pipe cleaner for antennae. Open the coffee filter by cutting along two sides but leaving the bottom joined like a hinge. Spray with a little water until the filter is just damp rather than soaking wet. Paint it by dabbing on spots of watercolor paint and allow the paint to seep into the wet filter paper to create random patterns. While this dries, paint the clothespin black and cut the pipe cleaner to about 2 inches, then glue it to the flat ends of the clothespin to form the antennae. Gather up the middle of the dry coffee cone filter and hold it in place by pegging on the clothespin body. Turn the butterfly into a fridge magnet by gluing a magnet onto the back of the clothespin.
Coffee Filter Bats
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Make Halloween bats from cone coffee filters by first cutting the filter in half to make two matching wing shapes. Paint a clothes pin with purple or pink paint and let it dry. Paint the two halves of the filter, one black and the other purple. Let them dry then cut half-moon shapes ending in point along the curved edges so they look more like bat wings. Place one of top of the other and gather the straight edge up then clamp it into the clothes pin to hold the gathers together. Glue wiggle eyes onto the front of the clothes pin to complete the bat.
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References
- Photo Credit café et filtres image by Vely from Fotolia.com
