Pinwheel
Materials- ¼ sheet of construction paper
- Markers/Crayons/Pencil Colors/Pencil
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Push tack
- Pencil with eraser
- Dime
Time
Under 1 hour
Procedure
Instruct students to:
- Mark and cut a 4 ½ " square from construction paper.
- Center dime in the middle of the square and trace around it.
- Cut diagonally from each corner towards the opposite corner. (4 x)
- Stop cutting when you reach the mark you made from the dime.
- From the back, push the pin through the center of the pinwheel.
- Take the right corner of the first section and bend to the middle of the pinwheel and push over the needle to hold.
- Repeat with each section.
- Remove from needle, carefully holding the sections together.
- Push the pin through the front of the pinwheel completely through the back.
- Push the pinwheel into the eraser of the pencil.
- Let the pinwheel loosen up between the corners and the back.
- Blow on the pinwheel and watch it spin
