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Ideas for Five Minute Crafts

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When you're trying to keep kids busy, five minutes is plenty of time to create these great craft ideas. You can make a game of these crafts by counting down five minutes and seeing if you can get each item made well within the time. Or you can use these craft ideas to fill the time spent waiting for a visitor to come or any other event that the kids are impatient to get underway.

Flower Crafts

This first flower craft idea requires a glass and some napkins. Start by arranging napkins around the edges of the glass, pushing a third of the napkins into the glass. Turn the glass and then arrange another napkin that overlaps with the last. Keep doing this until you've covered the glass. You can overlap as many napkins as you like, in fact, the more you use the better the flower will look when you turn the glass over and lay your creation on the table.

Glue Gun Magic

You can do much more with a glue gun than stick materials together. Have you ever considered making a fridge magnet with one? All you need to do is to create a pattern or write a word on a surface using a glue gun. When the glue hardens it's very strong so create your pattern or write a word and let the glue harden before peeling it off and applying a small magnet to the back to create your personalized fridge magnet.

Table Drum

You might not like the noise your kids will make with this but you'll enjoy the five minutes spent putting it together. To begin with, take three tins out of your trash, wash them through and set them down on your work surface. Now take out one party balloon for every tin you have and cut off the end. You'll use the rest to create the skin for the drum. Put the balloon over the tin and then take two chopsticks. Add a cork on the end of each and you'll have two drumsticks.

Give Me a Hand

To make this next craft idea you'll need to plug your glue gun in again and let it heat up. Now trace around your hand using a pencil on paper. When that's done, take the glue gun and cover the outline of your hand with glue. Go over the lines several times if you like to help build up the outline. Let that dry and harden and then give it to one of your kids to complete with coloring pens, glitter or tissue paper which they can apply with PVA glue.

School Supplies

Whether the children are heading back to school or not it's always a good idea to be prepared. Once you've finished this five minute craft your child will have a new pencil roll to keep their latest stationary. All you'll need is a sheet of felt that's 20cm by 30cm, some ribbon, and scissors. To begin, lay out the felt and then place the pencils side by side on it. This will give you the measurements you need to cut the felt to. You'll need roughly 2cm at each end and 1.5cm between each pencil so mark those out on the felt with a pencil. Using a craft knife or scissors, cut two slits for each pencil, one at the top and another below which you'll guide your pencils through. Now you make two further cuts in the felt. Make these cuts on one end of the felt and towards the middle then thread ribbon through each. Roll up the felt over the pencils and tie the ribbon to close.