Try this fun magic wand art with pipe cleaners and streamers. With this fun creative art project, kids ages 2-8 can transform simple materials into a fun colorful wand for pretend play, dancing, or fun celebrations. This activity is so easy to make, it helps to improve motor skills and creates a colorful and fun toy!
Creating Magic Wand Art with Pipe Cleaners and Streamers
Making these magic wands is an engaging and easy craft for kids to do at home or in the classroom. Set up and clean up takes little to no time, and it is so easy to make these, but it will keep kids entertained for hours! They only use a few simple and cheap materials and kids have a blast dancing with them when they finish!
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This art activity works for various activities like ribbon dancing to pretend play the Olympics, celebrations like birthdays, holidays, and even magic! This can even be use along side fireworks for a cheap fire free sparkler! This project is fantastic for developing coordination, spatial awareness and fine motor skills.
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Supplies needed for this art activity
- Pipe Cleaners
- Streamers
- Paper, scissors, and markers (optional)
How to create these wands
First, twist some pipecleaners together
Begin by taking three to five pipe cleaners and twist them together all the way from one end to the other. This will make it sturdy and strong to stand up straight.
Then, twist in the streamers!
Now its time to add the streamers. On one end of the pipe cleaners make a candy cane shape and place several streamers at the end. Fold over the pipe cleaners and twist the end so the streamers stay in place. To add another element to this project you can create a star or symbol for the tip of the wand and tape or glue it on.
Our experience with this activity:
We loved this activity! It was the last day of summer camp before the Forth of July so we created sparklers and the kids had a blast dancing with these to music before they went home to celebrate the forth of July. It made cleanup so easy and quick and watching them dance was so adorable!
Active Time
10 minutes
Total Time
10 minutes
Difficulty
easy
Estimated Cost
$1
Materials
- – Pipe Cleaners
- – Streamers
- – Paper (optional)
Tools
- – Markers or Crayons (optional)
- – Scissors (optional)
Instructions
- Twist 4-5 pipe cleaners together. for the wand.
- Bend the wand into a candy cane shape.
- Add streamers at the bend, then twist the pipecleaners around the streamers.
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What did you use these magic wands for? Tell us in the comments!
