Cool Christmas Decoration ideas for Children Using Disposable Paper Cups

This Christmas encourage your children to do something creative with a few disposable paper cups. You can teach them make a wide varieties of attractive and colourful wind chimes and holiday bells that can be hung from the branches of a Christmas tree, a fireplace mantel, garden or a window.
Find out how to recycle and make cool stuff with disposable cups with the following arts and crafts decorations, instructions and patterns.

Making Christmas Bells out of Paper Cups

  1. Take 2 or 3 Paper cups 
  2.  Either cut and paste coloured paper or metal foil over flat-bottom drinking cups, or
  3.       You may colour the cups with bright coloured paints.
  4.       Let the painted cups dry thoroughly.
  5.    Take a nail or any sharp objects to punch 2 holes through the bottom of each cup
  6.      Hang a bead or a bell on a piece of string or ribbon, so that it will hang below the cup for a clapper.
  7. Colour the bells with paints and decorate it with gummed stickers, sequins, paper ruffles, beads or ribbon bows.

Making Beaded Wind Chimes

Wind Chimes have long been is in use at most part of the world within houses or buildings and in the garden where there are possibilities of movement of air to ward off evil spirits and to bring in good luck. Today, wind chimes are common and used to maximize the flow of life's energy. They are usually hung outside of a residence or building as a visual and aural garden ornament.

The relaxing sound of wind chimes tinkling in the wind would help to calm your mind, soothe your nerves as well as discharge your entire stress.

Here’s is a quick craft idea to make colourful wind chimes using varieties of disposable items.  
Materials Needed:
  •          Paper cup
  •          Pipe cleaner
  •          Strings
  •          Big beads
  •          Small bells
  •          Metal shank button or metal washer
  •          Drinking straws
  •          Poster paint or acrylic paint
  •          Paint brushes
  •         Scissors
  •          Hole punch

How to make a Wind Chime?
1.       Cut a paper cup to a height of 2 to 3 inches.
2.       Make 4 evenly-spaced holes around the cup's mouth.
3.       Paint the cup using poster paints and make your own designs. (Use acrylic paint if the surface of your paper cup is glossy or waxy)

    4.    Cut a string into 4 equal lengths of approximately 12 inches long. Cut a 5th string that is 2 inches longer.
    5.    Tie a small bell at the end of all the 4 strings. Set the 5th string aside for the pendulum.
    6.    Cut drinking straws into ¾ to 1-inch long pieces.
    7.     String beads and drinking straws through each of the 4 strings. Leave a gap of 1.5 to 2 inches at the top of each string.
8.       Attach the beaded strings around the painted paper cup by tying the top end of each string around the punched-out holes.
9.       To make the pendulum, trim a pipe cleaner to around 6 inches and make a loop on one end.
10.   Tie one end of the 5th string through the loop on the pipe cleaner.

11.    Attach a metal shank button or metal washer on the other end of the string.
12.    Punch a small hole at the centre of the paper cup base.
13.    Attach the pendulum to the wind chimes by inserting the end of the pipe cleaner through the hole at the centre of the paper cup. Pull all the way through, the loop on the pipe cleaner serves as a stopper.
14.    Check if the metal button or washer is at the same level as the bells.
15.    Loop the pipe cleaner on top to make the wind chimes' handle.
16.    Hang the wind chimes where it can catch a soft breeze.

This is going to be really a good idea for children to engage their creative side of the brain and at the same time develop the soft skills with the help of an adult. 

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