Making a Valentines Day Pinwheel Sweet Candy Gift Box Craft for Kids

This is part 2, today we will make the upper part (the vane – pinwheel part). Laura from Dacian Moon Handmade will show you today how to make a complex looking, but very easy to do, Valentine’s Day Candy Gift box with sweets or candies.

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Making a Valentines Day Pinwheel Sweet Candy Gift Box Craft for Kids – Part 2

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED (for part 1 and 2):

– colored paper (not too thin) – two squares ~15 cm and two other of ~5 cm
– scissors
– paint marker (red)
– glitter glue (to match the paper colours, in my case, gold and blue)
– 1 flexible straw (is not important to be flexible)
– one piece of crepe
– 1 pin
– pencil
– candies

Step 1

Take the second large square of coloured paper.

Fold it in half then unfold.

Do the same in the other direction. This is the same like the first part.

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Step 2

Fold one half in half again.

Then the other half.

Fold again the halves …

… to obtain this little square.

Step 3

Unfold the last two.

Step 4

Keep the center immobile …

… and open one half like in the picture.

Repeat on the other side. This will lift the edge.

Flatten the edge like this:

Step 5

Turn it with the worked part to you…

… and repeat the step 4.

Step 6

Lift the upper right part and fold it up.

Like this.

Now lift the lower left part and fold it down. Now we have a vane that will spin in the wind.

Step 7

Take one little square…

… and fold it at least four times (in cross)

With the scissor make a criss-cross cut around one corner.

Like this.

Now unfold: we have one of the center pieces.

Step 8

Cut a circle from the crepe, or if you want, cut it the same like in the step 7.

Step 9

Cut a little blue circle.

Step 10

Place the pin through all the center pieces…

… then through the vane …

… and finally through the flexible straw.

Step 11

Now is time to assemble the two parts.
With the scissor, cut the top of the lower part, just enough that the straw to pass.

Like this.
Note: if you want to be extra-sure of it, place a layer of craft glue on the back side, where the straw gets out of the paper. Let it dry well.

Step 12

Fill the lower part with candies.

Last Step

From the other little square…

… cut out a heart.

Adorn it with glitter glue and write „Happy Valentine”, and place it beside the straw in the top of the lower part.
Note: you can glue the heart on the straw, if you want.