These wall-hangings compiles two symbols of winter – mitten and snowflake. These can add to the festive season decoration of house. The mitten and snow flake wall hanging is a fun activity both for kids and parents. The instruction to make it is provided below.
Difficulty level
Moderate
Time required
3-4 hours
Resources required
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Cereal box of thin cardboard
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Black marker
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Blue, light blue and green construction paper
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White paper (1 sheet)
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A white glitter glue
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A white paint pen
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White yarn
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Packing tape and a scissor
Instructions
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First get the marker and mark a shape, which has at least one straight side. It should be at least 6-7” long. Just make a half circle, a triangle or a scalloped size and then cut out the shape. It is going to be your cloud template.
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Then place the blue template into the blue construction paper and line up the straight edge with the straight edge of the paper. Make a trace around the template and make a shape around the blue paper.
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You can make use of the glue stick to connect the blue paper cloud in the cardboard template.
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Then turn the header over and create a line of the glue on the straight edge. Make it about ½” wide. Put the white paper on the glue and press it to seal. Spruce the white paper and leave a scalloped edge just hanging below the blue template. Make use of the glitter glue to beautify the white scalloped edge and set it aside to dry.
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Then cut out three paper snow flakes from the white paper. The size should be 3 inches. Join the snow flakes with the light blue construction paper. When it becomes dry cut and create a piece around each snowflake and give each one a round border. You can beautify each snow flake with glitter glue.
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Create two pieces by cutting out two mitten pieces from the piece of green paper and do slightly overlap the mittens and put glue to them by joining those together at the overlapping position. Make the mittens look good with glitter glue and leave those to become dry.
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Write the words “let it snow!” with a black marker on the front of your blue cloud. You can beautify it with little snow-flakes if you want. You can use the white paint pen to specify the lettering by putting a white line along side the black lines of the letters.
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Once the snow-flakes and mittens become dry make five strands of white yarn of 15” each. Use packing tape to connect the yarn to the back of the each snow-flake and mitten. Connect them to the blue cloud by matching their heights so that they would not overlap each other.
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At last, attach a shorter piece of yarn to the back as your hanger.
Quick tips
1. Children can use paper glitter glue or white pen paints in the place of paper snowflakes to create pictures of snow flakes on to the light blue paper.
2. Usually the glitter glue takes a much longer time to become dry. To dry it fast, spread the glue around with the help of your finger to make the glue surface plane.
Things to watch out for
As this is a very delicate preparation, parents can guide the children to make it better.
