Pencil shavings bouquet, educational; hands on

Shavings Bouquet

Things needed: Two ice-cream sticks, a pencil, paints, a sharpener and glue.

Best of waste - pencil shavings- pencil shavings bouquet
Best of waste – pencil shavings

Method:

  1. Sharpen the pencil, taking care not to break the shavings. Try to get long, unbroken shavings.
  2. Cut one ice cream stick in half and stick the two pieces on the remaining stick, in the shape of ‘V’.
  3. Now curl the shavings very carefully to form flowers. Stick these flowers to the ends of the sticks on either side.
  4. Paint the shavings in bright colors like flowers!
  5. Put in a small vase.

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