Supplies

 Paper bag (a grocery or lunch bag)

 Craft glue

 Pipe cleaner

 Straw

 2 buttons

 One quarter

 Safety scissors

 Hole-puncher

 Decorations to make your pinwheel one-of-a-kind (markers, glitter)

Instructions 

1. Measure an 8 inch square and have a grown-up help you cut it out of your paper bag.
2. Fold and crease the square diagonally each way. Take your quarter and trace it in the very center, where the creases make an X.
3. Cut along the creases from the edge towards the center, but make sure to stop cutting before you reach the circle.
4. Punch a single hole on the left edge corner of each triangular section and then in the center of the circle.
5. Color and add any decorations you would like to your pinwheel. Be careful not to glue anything heavy to it, or else it won’t spin in the wind!
6. Fold in the corners so that each hole matches up over the center hole. Glue the corners to the center so that it makes one single hole.
7. Thread pipe cleaner through the straw and fold the bottom of the pipe cleaner up around the bottom of the straw so that it stays in place. String one button, the paper pinwheel and then one more button through the pipe cleaner sticking out of the top of the straw.
8. Fold down the remaining pipe cleaner to secure the pinwheel in place and then bend the straw handle down so that the pinwheel is vertical.
9. Now you have a beautiful pinwheel - watch as it blows in the wind!

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