DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Teepee Craft

Contributed by Leanne Guenther

This is a fairly simple craft for kids to make (you likely remember making one as a child).  It's fun for them to get creative when they decorate the paper before wrapping it around the straws.

Materials:

• scissors,
• tape
• 3 drinking straws or straight twigs
• something to decorate with (markers, stickers, paints, etc).
• paper and printer

Instructions:

• Print the template of choice.
• If using the B&W template, use markers, pencil crayons, stickers or paints to decorate the teepee as you see fit.
• Cut out the template.
• tape one straw on either side of the opening so it sticks up through the hole where the top of the teepee will be and so there's a fair sizes flap of paper between the opening and the straw.
• Tape the last straw in between the first two.
• Form your paper into a cone with the straws on the inside, sticking up through the opening in the top.
• Tape or glue your cone so it holds (I find tape works better).

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

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