DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Winter Construction Paper Roll Wreath

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

• 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).
   

• 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.