Celebrate the sun with this summer craft; make a sun paper plate yarn weaving scene that will brighten up everyone’s day!
Weaving yarn into various shapes makes for a great fine motor-exercise for young kids.
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We love making all kinds of Summer Crafts for Kids (check out our Shark Paper Toy or make some Fish Clothespin Puppets).
The sun weaving project is fun to craft, and will make a nice indoor decoration.
How to Make a Sun Paper Plate Yarn Weaving
What you need:
- yellow yarn
- large needle
- blue and white paint
- paintbrush
- scissors
- glue
- googly eyes
- pink pipe cleaner
- 2 pink pom-poms
Step by Step Tutorial
The Sky
Start creating the craft by painting a paper plate blue.
You may need to add a few coats of paint to make it vivid.
Grab the scissors for this next step.
The Sun
Cut a hole in the middle of the plate.
Take a needle and start poking tiny holes around the large hole.
To start the weaving, make sure there are enough holes.
Attach the yellow yarn to the needle.
Start the weaving project by going directly across the plate with your weave.
Your first step should be a piece of yarn from one end of the plate to the other.
You are going to continue to weave the paper plate.
Here is a front version of what the sun will look like as you continue to weave.
Keep on weaving through all poked holes.
Thread yarn through the loops at the backside to secure the sun.
Our sun is almost finished.
There shouldn’t be any white space showing.
Make some more weaves.
Secure at the backside again by threading the yarn through a loop.
Make a knot.
Once you are done weaving the sun, you can cut the excess yarn.
The Rays
Next, you are going to make the rays. Take the needle and start poking holes.
Poke sets of holes around the sun.
Start the weaving from the backside of the paper plate.
Make the first ray by weaving the sun’s yarn towards the second poked hole.
We just made the first sun ray.
The back should look like in the picture.
Go on and finish all the rays.
When you finish, you should have rays of sunshine surrounding the sun.
Secure the yarn at the back.
Make sure you cut the excess yarn off.
You can paint white clouds onto the blue plate.
As you can see, several clouds make for an elegant sky scene.
Add the googly eyes to give the sun some personality.
Using a pipe cleaner and pom-poms, you can add a mouth and cheeks to the sun.
Your shining sun is ready.
We love how ours turned out.
How do you like yours?
Have fun crafting!
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