Fathers Day Shirt Origami

I made these oragami hawaiian shirts one christmas to decorate the tree with! I have also used this pattern many times at church or else where to use as a gift or a card for Father's Day. Here is an excellent step by step how to on folding one of your own.

Hawaiian Snowflakes

One year while I was searching for some patterns to decorate some Hawaiian stockings I stumbled across this fun site that has lots and lots of Hawaiian snowflake patterns. Granted that some are a little bit intricate for a four year old you can look through and find some that are easy or you could cut them out and let the kids decorate with them.


There is also a link for some history on the Hawaiian snowflake you may be interested in. Have fun making your very own Hawaiian snowflakes!

These snowflakes are also a good way to teach kid about patterns and geometric shapes.

Candy Starburst Plumeria

I made this mini plumeria from a Starbust candy. It is really easy.

Here's the step by step

1) Mold a Starburst until it is soft enough to flatten on a hard surface. Take the cap off a ball point pen and break of the point. Use the cap to cut out 5 little circles in the flattened Starburst.

2)Remove one of the cut circles

3)Press it slightly with your thumb and finger.

4)Pinch one end

5)Repeat steps 2-4 until you have 5 petals.

6)Press the petals together.

It's that simple!

I thing this pretty little flowers would look great on top of a cupcake at a Luau or something.

String and Straw Leis

My niece made my little girl this beautiful Lei. I thought it was fun I have worn it for a few days at my daughter's request.

The construction is easy once you have the supplies. Some sort of yarn or string (this one is made out of poofy thick yarn and it helps the flowers and straw beads stay in place nicely!), paper flowers, and cut up pieces of a straw for beads. You will also need some tape to put on the ends of the yarn to make it easier to thread through the beads.

My daughter and I did our own version on this with small photos of herself and her family. It was a really fun charm necklace filled with mementos of our favorite outings. Quick tip though..... when we punched the holes they were a little bigger than the straws that we bought at the store and we had to use a larger straw like the kind you find at McDonald's so the straw's wouldn't slip through the holes we punched in the photos.

Here is another get idea for making flower leis
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10492

Here are some flower necklace printables from Wondertime Online as well. Click here for the link! As well as a How to on lei's thier way! Click here to see.