Super Easy (and CLEAN) Patriotic Craft

Today I'm sharing a really easy and really CLEAN craft idea. I know that sometimes the "mess" of crafting can hold some of y'all back in doing crafts with your kids and so I really hope that this idea will inspire some mess-free creative time :)

What You'll Need - Blue plastic cups - Hole punch - red/white ribbon - star stickers - a pipe cleaner
Using your hole puncher, punch holes along the rim of the cup. I punched 12 holes (just like a clock if that makes sense).

Next, cut 12 strips of ribbon (6 of each color) for each wind catcher that you're going to make. We were making two so I cut 24 total strips of ribbon.

And that's it! Then I just gave the kids each their ribbon pieces, showed them how to thread them through the holes and once they pulled them through I tied them. EASY!

Once they had all their ribbons tied on they decorated their blue cups with the white star stickers...

... I poked a hole through the top and put a pipe cleaner through...

... Dave helped the kids hang them...

... and we were done!

Festive, easy and CLEAN!!!

We'll probably take these down on the Fourth and bring them with us to the parade to wave around and they had a great time making them. You cold really do these for any occasion/season (black cups with orange ribbon for halloween, rainbow for St. Patrick's Day, etc.) and because I used satiny ribbon they should hold up in the weather.
Happy (clean!) crafting, friends!!!