DLTK's Crafts for Kids:
Snowflakes Wreath

This craft is fun for older children (and adults!) - Age 6+.  There are quite a few steps that younger kids (Age 2+) can help with, but they won't be able to do the craft independently.  This is a good family project!

This fun Winter wreath is made with, you guessed it, TP ROLLS!!  Everyone in my family has been collecting them for me and we ended up with a whole bunch of extra ones.  I was stumped for a way to use them!

Materials:

• Wire coat hanger
• 14 to 16 tp rolls
• Optional:  Winter color paint like silver or blue
• white paper (you could also use craft foam, gift wrap or aluminum foil)
• tape.
   
• glue,
• scissors,

• ADULT:  Take each tp roll and cut a slit HALFWAY through.
   
• Optional:  Paint tp rolls a neutral color.  You can see from the finished craft that not much shows through, but my kids have fun painting, so we painted them all shades of blue.
   
• Let dry.

• ADULT:  Bend the coat hanger to form a circle.
   
• Using the slits cut halfway through the rolls, slide each of your tp rolls onto the hanger to form a big circle of tp rolls.
   
• Optional:  Take a bit of masking or scotch tape and tape the tp rolls together.  (tape the openings of the tp rolls on the inside of the circle together).  This will keep the rolls from spinning around while you're working.  If you choose not to do this, the paper snowflakes will keep everything from spinning on the finished craft 

• Cut out many snowflakes.  We made ours by hand from white computer paper and aluminum foil.
   
• I've provided a template you can choose to use.  We just freehand cut our own!
   
• One person can be doing this part while another (daddy *grin*) is assembling the tp roll wreath base.

• Glue all the snowflakes onto the tp roll base, overlapping so it's nice and full.
   
• Tie a bow on the top if you want to.

Note:  Origami paper comes in appropriately sized squares and you can get winter patterns during the season at many craft stores.  This is an Alternative to making your own squares (but I'm "thrifty" so I always make my own *grin*)

Fold your square in half (to make a rectangle)

Kids sometimes curve and cut off the wrong edge side of the triangle and end up with a snowflake that falls apart.  Make sure the point of the triangle is the center of the paper.

You can make them rounded, square, triangular or like half hearts -- have fun and experiment!)

I always like to make some sort of small snip in the bottom point.

NOTE:  scrapbooking scissors with funny edged blades make wonderful snowflakes!