To make them, you will need:
Pipe cleaners
Pipe cleaners
Colored drinking straws
Plastic pony beads
Wooden beads for the heads
Scissors
Glue
Sharpies – we used a fine tip black for the faces, and larger tipped colored ones to color the heads
Step 1: Twist 3 pipe cleaners together in the middle, and bend them. Make sure that you do at least a couple of complete twists, or the pipe cleaners won’t stay together.
Step 2: Slide 3 pony beads over both of the legs together.
Step 3: Cut a drinking straw into 8 1″ segments. Slide two segments onto each arm. Slide two segments onto each leg with a pony bead in the middle of the leg segments. You can also include a bead in middle of arm segments.
Step 5: Draw a face on a wooden bead and slide it over the top two pipe cleaners. Design the extra pipe cleaner into hair design of choice. A popular one for the girls was curling around pencil, remove pencil, and voila - curly pigtails. The boys made their hair zig-zag or spiked for example.
Have Fun!
Craft credit: http://frugalfun4boys.com/2013/04/01/pipe-cleaner-ninjas/
Step 1: Twist 3 pipe cleaners together in the middle, and bend them. Make sure that you do at least a couple of complete twists, or the pipe cleaners won’t stay together.
Step 2: Slide 3 pony beads over both of the legs together.
Step 3: Cut a drinking straw into 8 1″ segments. Slide two segments onto each arm. Slide two segments onto each leg with a pony bead in the middle of the leg segments. You can also include a bead in middle of arm segments.
Step 4: Twist the extra pipe cleaner into hands and feet to help keep the straws from sliding off.
Step 5: Draw a face on a wooden bead and slide it over the top two pipe cleaners. Design the extra pipe cleaner into hair design of choice. A popular one for the girls was curling around pencil, remove pencil, and voila - curly pigtails. The boys made their hair zig-zag or spiked for example.
Have Fun!
Craft credit: http://frugalfun4boys.com/2013/04/01/pipe-cleaner-ninjas/
