Bug Pipe Cleaner Crafts with Pom Poms

Cleaning stick crafts are really fun (and great for fine motor development) and there are so many things you can make with them – check out these cleaning stick crafts we made using them and pom poms!

There are so many fun insects you can make, so this is a great spring craft for kids.

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Today we were walking in the woods and heard some humming around some trees. And guess what we found? A beautiful bee house hanging from a tree.

Did you know that wasps chew up bark fibers in their little mouths and just spit them out to form the rough paper they use to make these houses? Interesting, right?

And the house we found was full of little bees. We could see them coming in and out of the house and flying around the house.

We didn’t want to bother them because they could get very nasty and sting us on the nose and hands, so we just kept walking.

After getting home, we came up with a fun idea and made cute, painless colorful finger bells, then put them on our fingers and fly them around the house.

We had so much fun.

How to make crafts with insect straws

What you need:

• 1 cotton swab + 1/4 cotton swab
• a big pom-pom
• four or five small shuttlecocks
• two bulging eyes
• Styrofoam
• hot glue gun or kids glue
• drag
• pencil

Step by step instructions

Head

Apply a little hot glue to the top of the large shuttlecock – or if working with young children, have them use glue, …

…then put the googly eyes on. That will be the siren’s head.

Body

Now apply some glue to the back of the head and start by adding a small pom-pom, …

… then continue adding smaller tassels, forming a row.

Wings Frame

Take a cotton swab and fold it like a pretzel.

Then wrap the two ends of the stick around the cookie to secure it.

Apply a little glue to the wing…

…and place them on top of the bell body.

Let the glue dry.

The Ring

Take ¼ cotton stick, form a circle …

…and secure it with hot glue.

Attach the circle to the body.

Wings

Use a pencil to draw two wing-like shapes on the back of the self-adhesive foam sheet, …

… then cut out the wing shape.

Place a little hot glue on top of the wing shape, …

…and glue them to the wing frame.

Finished!

Too easy right?

You can do as much as you want.

Have fun playing with these cute colorful bells!

Project contributed by Ema P.

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