Make Your Own Toys!
There’s a fantastic new book out called Make These Toys: It has 101 easy crafts you and your kids can make with things you have (like toilet paper tubes and paper clips). Here’s one of our favorites:
Rolling Dogs
Materials
- Flimsy paper plate
- Markers or crayons
- Scissors
- Hole punch
- Drinking straw
- Two small empty spools
Fold the paper plate in half. Draw the outline of the profile of a dog’s head and body on the plate so that the fold will run down the center of the dog’s back. Cut out and decorate your dog with markers or crayons.
Hold the front legs together and punch a hole in them 1/4 inch from the bottom. Do the same for the back legs.
Cut the drinking straw in half. Slip one piece of the straw through a hole in the front leg. Put a spool over the straw, then put the straw through the hole in the other leg. Even out the straw and trim so 1/2 inch sticks out from each leg. Repeat this process for the back.
Now your dog will stand up on the spools. Give him a little push and watch him roll!
Reprinted from Make These Toys by Heather Swain by arrangement with Perigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Copyright (c) 2010 by Heather Swain.
3 comments
Wow! I can’t wait to get my hands on that book. We are always looking for new ways to reuse things that we can’t otherwise recycle!
This is so cute! I will do this the next time I run our playgroup, however I won’t have any spools, but I do have tons of old Rx bottles that I can clean out and drill holes through each end, I think it should work! Thanks for sharing!
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