Crafts With Q-Tips
Versatile and inexpensive, Q-tips are an ideal craft material. Because Q-tips are light and easy to use, even very young children can use them in their craft projects. Q-tips can be easily chopped into pieces to create different shapes. Provide kids with a mix of colored and white Q-tips so they can create different types of designs and images.
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Snow flakes
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Have children glue two white Q-tips across each other on a piece of blue construction paper to give a snowy night sky background. Cut other Q-tips into two pieces, and have children glue these around the cross to create snowflakes. Older children can create complicated shapes.
Name Card
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Help kids use Q-tips to make letters of the alphabet and numbers. Give them white construction paper, and have them glue colored Q-tips onto it in the shapes of the letters that spell their names. Have them use the Q-tips to mark their age underneath. For extra decoration, they can glue rows of Q-tips around the edges of the construction paper to create a colored border.
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Skeleton
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Have children cut out a skull shape from white paper and glue it onto black construction paper. Alternatively, they can paint on the skull if they have thick white craft paint that will show up on the black card. Then have them use white Q-tips to mark out the bones of the skeleton, and glue them onto the card under the skull. They should use whole Q-tips to create the major body parts such as spine, legs and arms, and cut ones for the ribs, hands and feet.
Paint Spots
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Use Q-tips as paint brushes for small children. Provide them with a palette of different colored nontoxic craft paints, and have them use a separate Q-tip for each color. Q-tips are particularly effective for creating dot-shaped designs. Give them bright yellow paint to create stars on a black background, or have them use their Q-tips to create different colored flowers on a sheet of green paper.
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References
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