Fun Crafts for Kids With Pipe Cleaners

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Stacy and in this video you will see how to make kids crafts using pipe cleaners. For this first one, we are going to make a person out of pipe cleaners, the materials are four pipe cleaners, scissors and a pencil. The first step is take a pipe cleaner and you're going to make a V with it and twist a small loop at the top, so here's my V and I'm just going to twist a small loop. Next you're going to twist the two ends a few times to make a torso, so you're going to just take this and twist them around about three times. You're done with this one, so you're just going to set it aside and you're going to grab another pipe cleaner and you're going to coil it around your pencil. So you're just going to wrap it around your pencil and this will be your body. Slide it off the pencil and you're going to take your first part and you're going to slide it through, and you're going to want to make sure that your loop is still sticking out. Next, you're going to take another pipe cleaner and fold it in half and you're just going to cut it apart, these are going to make your arms. And now you're just going to slide it to the loop, you're only going to use one of these, then they'll be your arms. You're going to take your last pipe cleaner, and wrap it around the pencil, this is going to be head. You're going to kind of want it to be fat, so don't make it long, like you did the body. Slide it off, and then you'll just stick it up at the top. Then you're just going to make loops in your legs, in your arms. And if you want to, you can add the googly eyes on the face, to make a face or you can use markers and you can always have a hat or anything else that you want to. And now you have made a person with pipe cleaners. In this clip, we'll make a pipe cleaner reindeer, the materials are brown, white and red pipe cleaners and scissors. The first step is to cut your white and your red pipe cleaner in half and you're only going to be using one of those. You're going to take the red and white and you're just going to wrap them around each other. After you've wrapped them around each other, you're going to want to go back to the top and just bend it over to look like a candy cane. And then you're going to want to take your brown pipe cleaner and you're just going to cut, just a little bit of it, just to make your antlers. You need to make the brown pipe cleaner into this shape. Now you're going to hook your brown antlers on to your candy cane, so you're just going to put it right in there, just push them together. You can add googly eyes and a nose, if want with a pom pom to finish off your reindeer pipe cleaner. For the last project, I will show you how to make a sun, the materials are one yellow pipe cleaner and scissors. The first step is cut your pipe cleaner in half, then you're going to use one of them and form a circle. You're just going to have to tie the ends together. Then you're going to take the other half of the pipe cleaner and you're going to cut it into pieces, then you're going to wrap them around your circle. Pipe cleaners are great to use for pictures, the sun is just one example, there's lots of other things you can make."