Snowflake craft

This is a fun, easy craft to do on those chilly winter mornings when it's too cold to go outside. (Too cold for the mamas, anyway -- my kids want to go outside no matter what the weather is like!) 

First, take 10 pipe cleaners. Separate 1 from the bunch and lay it in the opposite direction of the other 9. Twist that 1 around the middle of the bunch a couple of times, making sure that it's tight.    

Separate the pipe cleaners and fan them out like this: 

Add beads, and voila! A super easy, pretty snowflake. :-)

 

 Oliver even stopped his Lego-building to make one. :-)

 


I like the cluster of fish beads that he chose for the center. :-)


Buttercup was having too much fun with glitter and stick-on foam letters to make one. :-)

 Theodore didn't make a snowflake, but he did have fun learning how to string beads on a pipe cleaner, thanks to help from his NaNa. :-)

Pretty!