DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Winter Construction Paper Roll Wreath

Contributed by Leanne Guenther

A construction paper wreath is the perfect way to decorate your bedroom door or refrigerator to make the winter more cheery this year.

Alternative: Instead of using a paper snowflake as the center, Try our 3D hanging snowflake.

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.
check here if you don't know how to make paper snowflakes
(how to make paper snowflakes).
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.