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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Winter Construction Paper Roll Wreath

ALTERNATIVE:  Instead of using a paper snowflake as the center, try our 3D hanging snowflake

Materials:

  • Ring of cardboard (empty cereal boxes work wonderfully)
     
  • blue and white construction paper
     
  • scissors
     
  • glue
     
  • small piece of wool
     
  • OPTIONAL:  stapler and tape

Instructions:

  • Trace a small plate and a large plate onto a piece of old cardboard.  (My 6 year old enjoys tracing by herself.  My 3 year old prefers I do this part.)
     
  • Empty cereal boxes or frozen dinner boxes work well as a source of recycled cardboard.
     
  • It doesn't matter if you go over the folds of the cardboard

trace plate

  • Cut a small strip of cardboard and glue or tape it onto the back of the ring over any folds in the cardboard.
     
  • This will reinforce the ring.
     
  • Cut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4 inches)
     
  • glue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain)
  • In kindergarten/grade one, pattern practice is important.  Allow the children to design and repeat a pattern of blue and white loops (we did single alternating, but there are lots of things kids could do... like 2 blue, 1 white)
     

reinforce

  • Glue the rolls of construction paper onto the wreath. 
     
  • For the center snowflake decoration, cut a small snowflake out of paper. 
     
  • If you don't know how to make paper snowflakes, click here to learn how.

     

  • Take a piece of string and tape it to the wreath and to the snowflake so the snowflake hangs in the center of the wreath.
     
  • Hang on the wall.

 

Printable version of these instructions