A simple yet amazing craft using paper cups! An idea that’s also great for independent research projects.

Paper Cup Bowling

Bowling play with everyday materials

How about an easy-to-make bowling game using paper cups? You could simply place the cups upside down, but they don’t knock over easily that way, so let’s make pins by connecting two paper cups at their rims.

It’s a good idea to put a few marbles or small stones inside as weights.

Then decorate them however you like—draw pictures, add stickers, or glue on origami paper! For the ball, crumple up newspaper or flyers into a ball and wrap it with tape or origami paper to finish.

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SAKI

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Paper Cup Merry-Go-Round

A carousel made with paper cups! A spinning craft activity for 5-year-olds

This is a project to make a merry-go-round that spins when you twist a bar sticking out from the side! Make holes in the side and bottom of a paper cup large enough for a straw to pass through, then insert a bendable straw from the side and out through the bottom.

Cut the protruding end into four equal sections, spread them open, and attach a circular piece of paper—now you’ve created the spinning mechanism.

Make the roof and pillar parts from construction paper, hang drawings of characters the children made from the roof, and assemble.

Twist the straw to spin your handmade merry-go-round!

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yuri

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paper-cup wind chime

Let’s make colorful wind chimes! ~Let’s make a colorful wind chime!~

Let’s make wind chimes using paper cups.

Because the materials are familiar, children will be interested and eager to participate.

Patterned paper cups are, of course, cute, but it’s also great to have the kids draw on white construction paper and then stick it onto the cups! Once the body is ready, make a hole in the paper cup and thread twine through to attach a bell and a strip of paper.

Since this involves fine work, the teacher should handle it.

If you choose construction paper for the strip as well, the children can create their own original designs.

Displaying the wind chimes in the classroom will bring a cool, refreshing atmosphere.

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tsukada moe

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robot arm

[Playable Craft] Using a Paper Cup and a Kitchen Paper Tube! Cool! Magic Hand (Robot Arm) [Recycled Craft / Independent Research]

The magic hand you see in toy sections and the like—the one that’s handy for picking up items a little out of reach or retrieving something that’s fallen where you can’t reach—can actually be made easily with this idea.

The materials are very simple: two paper cups, a paper towel tube, construction paper, and string.

Just make a hole in the bottom of one paper cup and attach it to the paper towel tube, then combine it with a tube made from a paper cup and colored construction paper that serves as the gripper inside.

You can put it together in about an hour!

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utatane

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