Spring Flowers and Vase Chopsticks Craft

This simple Spring flowers with vase craft is great for preschoolers. Use chopsticks, a paper cup, and construction paper.

Materials:

• 2 pair of disposable chopsticks(or short dowels)
• paper cup
• sharp pencil
• flowers template or draw your own
• construction paper
• scissors
• tape

Directions:

1. Trace 4 simple flower tops on colorful construction paper or draw your own and cut out.
2. Break the chopsticks apart so you have 4.
3. Tape the flowers to the tops of the chopsticks.
4. Turn your paper cup upside down and poke 4 holes with a sharp pencil.
5. Stick your flowers in the holes to make your vase. Finished.

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Koi Nobori Carp Streamers Windsock Craft 2

In Japan, May 5th marks "Kodomo no Hi", Boys' Day or Childrens' Day. The traditional decoration are large carp streamer windsocks. Carp swim upstream and are considered strong and lucky. Parents want their children to be like carp.

Here's a small handheld  Carp Streamer version you can make yourself.

Materials:

•  large paper for decorating, or wrapping paper.
• 4 inch wide wooden loop or ring cut from a toilet roll
• scissors
• glue
• bamboo stick, dowel or chopstick
• hole punch
• string
• tape

Directions:

1.  
2. Cut a piece of 13.5x18 inch paper to decorate or use wrapping paper.
3. Decorate your paper to look like a carp and make big fish eyes.
4. Roll your paper into a tube and wrap around and glue to the wooden loop.
5. Flatten out the fish tube and cut along the bottom halfway from the end to make a fish shape as shown.
6. Punch 4 holes around the top, just under the wooden loop.
7. Tie 4 pieces of string to the carp, then tie together and tape to the top of the stick.
8. Run and fly your carp streamer.

Source: Free Kids Crafts

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4th of July Fireworks Wand Craft

The kids will love waving around their 4th of July fireworks wand craft at their next Independence Day Party.

Materials:

•  wooden dowel or disposable chopsticks
• red ,white, or blue tape like electrical tape
• red, white, and blue star wire garland
• scissors

Directions:

1.  Cut several 5 or 6 inch lengths of 4th of July garland.
2. Tape garland around one end of a dowel or chopstick
3. Wrap the rest of the dowel in red, white, or blue tape.
4. Wave your magical and patriotic wand.

 

Source: Kiboomu

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Inkblot Butterfly Craft

This is a simple and colorful idea to make a butterfly by using an inkblot technique. You can use chopsticks or lacking that a Popsicle stick. This is a great follow up activity after reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.

Materials:

• white paper
• paints and paintbrushes
• scissors
• pair of disposable chopsticks attached at one end (or you can use a craft stick)
• tape

Directions:

1. Read the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Look at the picture of the butterfly.
2. On one side of a piece of white paper,  paint 1 large colorful circle and then 1 more small colorful circle above it.
3. Fold the paper and press down gently. Open again to reveal a beautiful butterfly. Allow to dry.
4. Cut around the image in a butterfly shape.
5. Insert the butterfly between the chopsticks and tape to secure. Or tape to a craft stick.
6. Let students make their butterflies fly around the room.

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Paper Cup Pinwheel Craft

You can make a cute pinwheel from a paper cup.

Materials:

• 1 paper cup
• thin dowel rod or disposable chopstick
• drinking straw
• masking tape
• scissors

Directions:

1. Poke a hole in the center of the bottom of a paper cup.
2. Using scissors, cut slits down the sides of the cup all the way around making about 8 or 9 segments. Leave about a quarter of an inch at the bottom of the cup.
3. Fold the segments down at a slight angle to make the pinwheel shape.
4. Wrap masking tape around the end of a a thin dowel or chopstick.
5. Slip on a length of a drinking straw. The dowel should stick out of the other end.
6. Put the pinwheel on the dowel in front of the straw, the bottom of the cup facing out. There should still be some dowel sticking out.
7. Wrap masking tape around the dowel in front of the pinwheel so it can spin freely, but not fall off.
8. Decorate the front of your pinwheel if desired.
9. Hold your pinwheel in the wind or run  to make it spin.

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Chopsticks Rubber Band Gun Craft

 This is a very easy toy gun you can make from disposable chopsticks and rubber bands.

 

Materials:

 

• set of disposable chopsticks (the kind that are fused together)
• 2 short pieces cut from a chopstick, about 1.5 inches long
• rubber bands
• box cuter or sharp knife
• tape
• small squares cut from cardboard(ammunition)

 

Directions:

 

1. Using a very sharp knife or box cutter, score and break off two short lengths from a chopstick.
2. Place a rubber band over the skinny end of an unbroken pair or disposable chopsticks and secure with tape.
3. Lay one short stick across the chopsticks near the thick end and wrap from underneath with a rubber band. This will create the fulcrum for the trigger.
4. Lay the second piece on top of the first, perpendicular and tie down the front with a rubber band. The back will be sticking up. This will be the trigger.
5. Pull back the rubber band from the front and place it under the trigger.
6. Insert a small square cut from cardboard into the rubber band. Take aim and push down on the trigger and watch it fly.

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Japanese Chopsticks Launcher Toy Craft

 There are a lot of fun craft toys you can make from rubber bands and disposable chopsticks. This one can launch a toilet roll into the air.

Materials:

• 1 pair of disposable chopsticks(the kind that are fused together)
• short piece of cut chopstick(longer than the opening of a toilet paper roll)
• 1 rubber band
• toilet paper roll
• tape
• pen
• box cutter or sharp knife

Directions:

1. Loop a rubber band over the thick end of a pair of unbroken disposable chopsticks and secure with tape.
2. Use a sharp knife or box cutter and cut another piece of chopstick longer than a toilet paper roll is wide.(only by an adult)
3. Tape the cut piece to the other end of the rubber band.
4. Draw a rabbit, frog, kangaroo, or other jumping animal on the toilet paper roll.

How to play:

Hold the chopsticks straight up with one hand and press the toilet paper roll down the middle over the stick. Let go and watch the rabbit jump up.

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Japanese Chopsticks Boat Toy Craft

 Here in Japan, disposable chopsticks are a common everyday item. But, disposable chopsticks can also be the source of a lot of original craft ideas. This is how to make a simple boat toy for the bathtub from chopsticks.

Materials:

• 3 disposable chopsticks
• rubber bands (a few colored ones are better)
• milk carton
• scissors
• stapler

Directions:

Motor paddle

1. Cut a rectangle from a milk carton about 6 inches long and 1 inch wide.
2. Fold the rectangle in half, then half again, then half again to make eight equal sections.
3. Fold every two sections onto each other and then into a four way cross shape. Staple each section in the middle to secure.

Boat Frame

1. Put two chopsticks together and tie near the top with a rubber band.
2. Open to a "V" shape and place one more chopstick across to make an "A" shape. Tie with rubber bands.
3. Tie two blue rubber bands together and then two purple to make two sets of two.( colors are only examples)
4. Tie one end of each color set around the center of the motor paddle.
5. Tie the ends to bottom of the "A".
6. Wind up and let your boat sail in a bathtub.

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