Fun With Coffee Filters

I've been wanting to post this fun craft I did with my kiddos since Earth Day but never got around to it - imagine that.  Here we are the day before Mother's Day and I have a second craft all using coffee filters.  This is neat to do with a classroom full of kids or even a craft at home.  If you need a last minute Mother's Day homemade gift, you can whip this one up quick.  Here it goes:

Get together a coffee filter, markers, a piece of construction paper and a spray bottle with water.

With the markers and to the best of your ability, outline a map of the world and roughly color it in, leaving a a bit of white space.

Spray it down with about 5-7 sprays of water (a mist, not a jet-like stream).

Allow it to dry and voila - the earth!

And if you're a teacher like me, you'll have your kids write a paper about how they can save the earth!

"You can save the earth by turning off the lights when you go to the other room."

Come next April 22nd, you can put this craft on your calendar.  However, for something to do NOW, turn it into a Mother's Day craft like this:

Using two coffee filters, color them bright, "flowery" colors and spray 5-7 times as stated above, then allow to dry.

Get together your glue gun, a clothespin, a pompom, and a 4" piece of pipe cleaner.

Stick the pipe cleaner through the "hole" in the clothespin.

Accordion style, pinch the two pieces of coffee filter together at the middle after laying them on top of one another.

Twist the pipe cleaner around the pinched part of your coffee filter.

Side view: you can see that it is attached to the clothespin now.

Use a drop of hot glue to secure your pompom to the center of your flower and "fluff" your coffee filter into flower petals.

It is to be worn like a broach - Happy Mother's Day!

(Do excuse my gnarly looks - it's 2p on a Friday and I teach 5 year olds.)

Enjoy this fun, easy and cheap craft!  Maybe you can even come up with some fun things to create from coffee filters yourself.