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Wind Chime

This homemade wind chime will alert you to a breeze with a gentle tinkle.

Materials
• Scissors
• Clear plastic lids
• X-Acto knife
• Hole punch
• Fishing line
• Stick or dowel
• Jingle bells


Step 1:
Cut the rims off the plastic lids, then help your children cut out seven (or as many as you like) leaf shapes from the clear plastic. If you want, you can create "veins" on the leaves by lightly scoring each one with an X-Acto blade.

Step 2:
Punch a hole in the top and bottom of each leaf. Tie a 7- to 10-inch length of fishing line to the top of each leaf, then hang the leaves, evenly spaced, from the stick or dowel.

Step 3:
Using short lengths of fishing line, hang a jingle bell from the bottom of each leaf.

Step 4:
To make a hanger, tie the ends of a 6- to 8-inch piece of fishing line to each end of the stick.




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augustabelle

Dear Jalex, From one Ga girl to another I love your craft ideas especially the umbrella basket and the wind chimes. Keep them coming I will be trying a few of them. Thanks for sharing.

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DOOFIS

This is cute. I love windchimes.

jalex

wanted to give that one a bump too

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