Materials:
 | paper plate (small or large) (you can pre-paint
the top, eating area, of your plate a nice color before starting this
project if you like) |
| wool, ribbon or string (quite a long piece) |
| photo |
| glue |
| scissors |
Directions:
| Glue a photo in the center of the plate.
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| Cut slits at equal distances apart around your paper
plate.
 | slits should be about 1/2 an inch deep
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| For young kids, space the slits far apart (less
slits on the plate) -- as far as 2 inches apart.
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| For older children (Age 8+) you can make the
slits as close as 1/4 inch apart.
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| For even older kids (Age 10+), use embroidery
floss instead of wool. Do one entire spirograph in one
color. Now change the initial spacing of the spirograph and
do a second one in a complimentary color.
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| You'll notice on the diagram that I've shown as
many slits as are on a clock (12 slits).
 | If children are learning to read clocks, you
can do this activity. |
| When you're giving the directions, you would
say, "start at 12 o'clock", "now go to 4
o'clock", "now up to 1 o'clock", etc. |
| If you go to 5 o'clock first instead of 4,
you'll end up with a small opening for your photo. Use
your judgement based on the size of your photo
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| Take a long piece of wool, string or ribbon and start
with the end at the back (leave about a 4" end so you can tie it
later).
This is a lot easier to explain in diagrams, so
follow along the pictures on the right if you don't understand the
directions.
Pink lines represent wool on the front of the plate. Blue lines
show wool on the back of the plate.
- Put the wool through one of the slits and then
pull it to one between 1/4 and 1/2 way across the plate.
- Cross under the plate to the next slit over
(moving clockwise).
- Bring string up and go back to the slit at the
top of the plate right next to where you started (moving
clockwise).
- Cross under the plate to the next slit over
(moving clockwise).
- Continue this process all the way around the
plate.
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cut slits
1) start working with string
2) cross under the plate to the next slit over
3) bring string next to where you started
4) cross under the plate to the next slit over
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