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Monday, January 30, 2012

Pipe cleaner/Fuzzy stick Snowflake Stamping

Pipe cleaner Snow flake Stamping

We made Pipe cleaner snowflakes and used them for stamping. The snowflakes are simple to make and the prints are beautiful. We just love it.



Materials Used:

Pipe cleaners
Paint
Poster board
Child safe scissors

Steps overview:

To make the snowflake

pipe cleaner snowflake

1. Cut a 12 inch pipe cleaner into 3 pieces of equal size(4 inches). Hold the 3 pieces together and tightly wrap a new pipe cleaner around the middle of the bundle, twisting its ends to secure it. Twist the middle pipe cleaner to form a handle like shape.

2. Straighten out the 3 pipe cleaners to form a six-sided snowflake shape as shown above. We made one stamp with the simple six-sided snowflake and one by adding pipe cleaner to the ends.

3. Cut 2 inch pieces from another pipe cleaner. Twist the pieces on the sides of the snowflake as shown.

4. Pipe cleaner Snowflake ready to stamp.

Dip the snowflakes in paint and stamp!



At the end of the six-sided snowflake prints, we stamped dots using the pencil eraser side

Pipe cleaner/Fuzzy stick stamping



We made the below snowflake prints to go along with the book The Snowy Day





16 comments:

  1. Never would have thought to stamp with pipe cleaners! Nice.

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  2. This is so sweet. I have been looking for a quick winter art project. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. What a creative idea! I've made snowflakes out of pipe cleaners, but have never thought to use them as a stamp. It looks like they had tons of fun! Thanks for the great idea.

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  5. Beautiful, what a lovely idea, I love the little handle on the snowflake printers to make it easier for little hands to hold. Thanks for sharing. Ellie

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  6. Didn't they turn out well! Fun!

    Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

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  7. oooh printing with pipe cleaners... what a clever idea! Just think of all the shapes you could make!

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  8. What a brilliant idea! Pinned this to my preschool winter unit board.

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  9. What a great idea, it wouldn't have occurred to me to use pipe cleaners to stamp.

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  10. great idea - fun! thanks for sharing on the sunday showcase - pinned this!

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  11. awesome idea.. I pinned it to my Block printing board

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  12. Oooh they turned out so well!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

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  13. Awesome idea! Would have never thought of this. They came out great. Just pinned!

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  14. This is a great idea. Do you think they could be used as Christmas decorations afterwards? Off to pin.

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