Weather Bead Craft
A cardboard sun and cloud with pipe cleaner rays and rain, ready for a color-matching bead string. Pretty and quiet.
How to do it
- 1
Draw a sun and a cloud on cardboard.
- 2
Attach colored pipe cleaners as the sun's rays and the cloud's rain.
- 3
Have the kid string beads onto each pipe cleaner to match its color.
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