Make Your Own Lei.
Materials:
1. Flower shape cookie cutter or wooden flower shape(I found wooden shapes at Joanne's or Michael's for $.29). You can also find silk lei flowers in party shops and craft stores as well.
2. Straws--any color is fine. For this sample, I used four straws.
3. Yarn, string, cording. Enough to go over head without attachments.
4. Bright colored paper. I used two colors for this project, but one, two, three, or more colors work just as well.
5. Scissors
6. Pencil for tracing.
7. Sharp pencil or single hole punch.
Instructions:
A. Take wooden flower shape and trace about 9 flowers on each paper. (With younger children, an adult should do the tracings and later the cutting of the paper flowers.)
B. Cut out flowers.
C. Cut straws into about 1.5 inches in length. If the straw bends, cut out the expansion part and discard. With four straws, you should end up with 12 cuttings.
D. Punch a hole in the middle of flowers with a sharp pencil or single hole punch.
E. Knot string at one end about 2-3 times. Leave enough string to be about to tie/close lei at the end of the project.
F. Add straw first. Then a flower and so on.
G. Once you have completed lei, tie ends together.
*** For another project using this same process for tweens or teens, make several strings. Do not tie together as a lei. Door hangers/dividers are great project for them. Just tape the strings to the top of a door frame for an instant divider.
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