Duration: 45 minutes – 1 hour

Age: 3 years old and above

An affordable craft gift idea for children to make for their love ones for different occasions. This can be used as a paper clip for notes and photos or magnets.

Purpose:

• Creativity and imagination
• Parent and child bonding session
• Improves fine motor skills

Materials Needed:

• Wooden clothe pegs (with or without hooks)
• Wooden ice cream sticks
• Plastic gems
• Glitter glue
• UHU glue
• Stickers
• Felt pieces
• Marker pens
• Scissors

Step 1: Bend the metal hook backwards

• Bend the metal hook of the wooden peg backwards
• The hook enables you to hang the completed airplane up and to give it a flying illusion

Original hook position

Bended hook position

Step 2: Preparing the tail of the airplane

• Get your child to identify the colour of the ice cream stick in which he/she would want to represent it as the tail of the airplane
• Use a pair of scissor and cut the ice cream stick into half
• Parents can assist in the cutting of the ice cream stick

Step 3: Attaching the tail of the airplane

• Apply glue onto the back of the wooden peg
• Paste ½ of the ice stick onto the top of the wooden peg

• Apply glue onto the bottom of the wooden peg
• Paste the other ½ of the ice cream stick onto the bottom of the wooden peg

Step 4: Creating the wings of the airplane

• Apply glue to the front of the wooden peg

• Paste 1 ice cream stick onto the top portion of the wooden peg
• Flip the wooden peg to the other side and apply glue to the back of the wooden peg

• Paste the other ice cream stick onto the bottom portion of the wooden peg

Step 5: Creating the airplane propeller

• Cut a small piece of felt into an oblong shape
• Apply glue to the center portion of the felt
• Paste the plastic gem onto the center of the felt

Step 6: Attaching the propeller to the airplane

• Apply glue to the back of the felt piece
• Paste the felt piece to the front of the wooden peg
• Avoid sticking onto the bottom of the opening

Step 7: Decorating the airplane

• With the glitter glue, marker pen and stickers, allow the child to decorate his/her airplane
• Complete your airplane with a little note or Polaroid photo clipped onto it

By Poppletots.

Poppletots was started in 2010 by a mom who left her job to be spend more time with her child. Poppletots aims to provide unique, fun and useful children related products such as educational kits and apparels. Within 2 years, Poppletots has become a fun-going cosy community for reviews and parents to exchange ideas. Find out more about Poppletots at www.facebook.com/poppletots.

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