make pinwheels
Follow our pinwheel tutorial, below, to make pretty paper pinwheels for parties or play. Our tutorial shows how to make a pinwheel that spins with you make do® pinwheel printables. Paper pinwheels can also simply be hot glued directly on to a dowel or pretty paper straw for decorative use. You may also make pinwheel pencil toppers using a straight pin (with a ball on top, found at any sewing/craft store) and poking this into the eraser of a fun pencil that matches your party theme.
supplies you may need to make a pinwheel:
• copy paper to print your pinwheel printable on
• dowel or fun pencil
• scissors
• push pin (or straight pin with ball on top for pencil option)
• small bead
• hammer (or fingers if you are doing the pencil option)
©heather cahoon • you make do®