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Wind Sock Craft

Happy Fine Motor Friday! My co-hosts (Lalymom, Craftulate, School Time Snippets, Little Bins for Little Hands, P is for Preschooler, Racheous, Still Playing School, House of Burke and Powerful Mothering) and I are excited to share fun activities for toddlers and preschoolers that help build fine motor skills every Friday. At the end of this post you will find links for more great fine motor activities from my co-hosts. Be sure to check them out!

Wind Sock Craft {Fine Motor Fridays} | Stir the Wonder #kbn #finemotor #springcrafts

We are starting a science unit on wind and one of the activities in our Science is Simple book by Peggy Ashbrook is to make a wind sock. I wasn’t sure I wanted to share this activity as part of Fine Motor Friday, but after looking at the pictures I see that we practiced many fine motor skills while making this wind sock craft. 

To make your own wind sock you will need:

  • Plastic soda bottles
  • Tissue paper
  • glue sticks
  • markers and/or stickers
  • string
  • scissors

The first thing you need to do is cut your plastic bottle into 1 inch wide hoops. This will make the mouth of your wind sock.

wind sock2

Next decorate your sheet of tissue paper. Caden decided to draw on his tissue paper with markers, and told me he was drawing a snowman and a road. He did great drawing lines and circles. Then he decided to add a couple of car stickers. I decorated my lavender tissue paper with butterfly stickers. Obviously Caden isn’t quite as ready for spring as I am! 🙂

wind sock1

After we were finished decorating our tissue paper, Caden used the glue stick to apply glue to the plastic hoops. Caden was able to get most of this done on his own, and I just finished up making sure it was all covered.

wind sock3

Then I wrapped the tissue paper around the plastic hoop and added a little glue to the edge of the tissue paper. After the glue had dried we used scissors to cut a fringe on the bottom of the wind sock. Caden cut his own fringe (sorry no pictures, I was helping him.) I then used a hole puncher to punch two holes into the plastic hoop opposite each other. Caden tried to do this but it was too tough to punch holes into the plastic.

wind sock4

Next tie on your string or ribbon to hang your wind sock. Caden helped by threading the yarn through the holes and then I tied them on with a knot and hung them up!

Wind Sock Craft {Fine Motor Fridays} | Stir the Wonder #kbn #finemotor #springcrafts

Happy Fine Motor Friday!

Fine Motor Fridays

Be sure to check out these great fine motor ideas from my co-hosts!

Yarn Wrapped Rainbow from School Time Snippets

Hammering Water Beads from Lalymom

Easter Fine Motor Activity with Tongs from Craftulate

Spring Fine Motor Mini Activity Tray from Little Bins for Little Hands

20 Ways Siblings Can Help with a New Baby from Still Playing School

Easy Box & Pipe Cleaner Fine Motor Skills from Powerful Mothering

Simple Colour Mixing Fine Motor Activities from Racheous – Lovable Learning

Fine Motor Fridays Pinterest Board

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  1. Still Playing School says

    March 14, 2014 at 8:20 am

    It’s been so windy here these would be a great way to demonstrate that to my preschooler!

    Reply
  2. Laura @ Lalymom says

    March 14, 2014 at 8:45 am

    Oh wow those turned out great! And so many great fine motor skills went into it! Cool!

    Reply
  3. Barb @ A Life in Balance says

    March 14, 2014 at 11:53 am

    I love this idea! I’m saving it for our Girl Scout bridging ceremony in June. We’ll be bridging Daisies and Brownies up to Brownies and Juniors.

    Reply
  4. Kelly at Little Wonders' Days says

    March 14, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    This is a great craft for March! I’ve never thought to use an empty soda bottle to make the neck of a windsock, clever.

    Reply
  5. Rachel | Racheous - Lovable Learning says

    March 16, 2014 at 8:23 am

    Great tutorial and fun too! Thank you for the idea 😀

    Reply
  6. Alicia Owen says

    March 19, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    Awesome! I love it when I find crafts I already have all of the materials for, so I need to make one of these just based on that principle. ha ha! I suppose I could let my daughter help me decorate it. 😉

    Reply
  7. Jolanthe says

    March 19, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    I love this idea! I can imagine these being fun to make while creating some great memories in the process. Thank you for sharing!

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  8. Jill says

    March 23, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    This is an adorable idea!

    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

    Reply

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