Make sunny days even brighter with these colorful suncatchers! Perfect for honing fine motor skills, this project takes the concept of cutting out paper snowflakes to a new level for year-round fun.
Materials
- Coffee filters
- Bowl of water
- Paintbrush
- Food coloring in assorted colors
- Scissors
- Tray or mat to use as a workspace
- String
- Tape
- Warm iron (optional, for adult use only)
- Hair dryer (optional, for adult use only)
Instructions
- Lay a coffee filter on your workspace. Protect your area appropriately because food coloring can stain surfaces.
- Use the paintbrush to wet the entire coffee filter with water so it lies flat.
- Add a few drops of food coloring to the wet filter and brush the color out so it covers the entire surface. Use different colors and see how they blend.
- Allow the filter to dry completely. You can use a hair dryer to dry it quickly or apply a warm iron to a dry filter to flatten it further. Make sure that only adults use the iron or hair dryer.
- Fold and cut the dry filter into a snowflake design. To create a six-sided design, fold the filter in half, fold it in half again and then fold it in thirds before cutting it.
- Open the filter and iron it again with a warm iron if you wish.
- Use the string and tape to hang your filter in a window and watch as the sunlight filters through it.
