How to Make a Pinwheel (And Impress Your Kids!)

Impress Your Kids by Knowing How to Make a Pinwheel!

This post was contributed by Erin of The Usual Mayhem.

It’s so so easy to make a pinwheel.  And your kids will think you’re awesome for being able to do it!

It only takes 4 simple supplies – which you probably have around the house – and just a couple minutes.

Then watch the kids’ faces light up, and let the pinwheel spinning fun begin!

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How to Make a Pinwheel – (And Impress Your Kids!)

Supplies:

• square paper (Patterned scrapbooking paper is awesome for this!)
• scissors
• a thin dowel rod (You could also use a wooden chopstick or pencil!)
• a push pin

Steps to Make your Pinwheel:

First, cut your paper diagonally – from each corner in toward the middle – but NOT all the way to the middle.  Leave about a 1″ – 2″ square in the middle uncut.  You would cut on the black dashed lines shown in the photo below.

Next, you’ll be bringing every other corner into the middle of the paper.  You will bring in each corner that is marked with a star – as shown in the photo below.

As you bring each corner in, stick the push pin through it – as shown in the below photo.

Finally, push the push pin through the back/middle of the square paper and into the end of the wooden dowel or the eraser of a pencil.

And that’s it.  You made a pinwheel in just a couple minutes!

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Erin is the owner and author of The Usual Mayhem blog. She is also a daycare educator, a homeschooler, and the mother of three rambunctious children with very different personalities and challenges.

This post contains affiliate links.  Which just means if you make a purchase after clicking a link, I will receive a small percentage of the sale – without your price being any higher!  Thank you for your continued support.  For more information, see my disclosure policy.