Simple yet amazing crafts: craft ideas that elementary school students will want to make

paper cup hat

If you’re looking for a craft idea that can double as a decoration, how about making a paper cup hat? Cut off the rim of a paper cup, then leave about one-third from the bottom intact and make many vertical slits starting from the rim side.

Spread the slit sections outward, then weave them by folding them up diagonally from the rim side to form the brim of the hat.

Decorate it with your favorite ribbon and you’re done.

The color and pattern of the paper cup will become the hat’s design as-is, so choosing the cups is part of the fun, too.

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Honey Toast accessory case

[Sweets Deco] How to Make a Honey Toast Trinket Box [Fake Sweets, Clay Craft, DIY Fake Sweets]

Almost real? Let’s make a sweet and cute “Honey Toast Trinket Box”! It’s a big hit with upper-grade girls: it looks like a dessert, but inside it’s a practical storage box.

The design mimics crispy honey toast topped with plenty of honey, ice cream, and fruit.

It’s a craft project with a soft, sweet vibe.

Using paper clay, sponge, and paints, you can create realistic “browned edges” and a “melty” look.

Coming up with the decorations will be fun to do with friends, too.

Try finishing it off cutely with silicone whipped cream and berries.

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A coin disappears!? A mysterious piggy bank

Coins disappear!? Let's make a mysterious piggy bank [Summer Vacation Craft]. Easy craft with 100-yen shop materials: magic piggy bank, enchanted piggy bank, magic money box.

The charm of a piggy bank is that your money accumulates little by little—seeing it pile up and feeling it get heavier brings joy.

This is a curious piggy bank that deliberately takes away that charm: the coins you put in seem to disappear.

The piggy bank you’ll make is a simple one with a window so you can see inside, and it’s structured so that you can also see a decorative pattern within.

Before closing the lid with a coin slot, you install a mirror to divide the interior into two blocks, and that’s how you create the illusion of the coins vanishing.

It’s important to assemble it while carefully considering the placement of the interior patterns and the angle of the mirror so that nothing feels out of place.

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ball

A round and cute ball made by weaving paper – DIY How to Make a Paper Ball / Paper Weaving

Here’s an idea for making a ball out of paper.

First, prepare six strips of paper, each 1 cm by 20 cm.

Connect one of the strips into a loop.

Next, layer the remaining five strips one by one to form a star shape.

If you overlap them so that the center forms a pentagon, you’ll get a neat star.

Once layered, temporarily clip the ends of the strips upright, then pass the loop you made earlier through them.

At this point, only thread the strips that were on the bottom during the layering.

Swap the top and bottom positions of the overlapped strips, connect strips of the same color, and you’re done!

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Spinning Kaleidoscope Made with Origami

[Origami] How to Fold a Spinning Kaleidoscope | Origami How to Make a Kaleidoscope Paper Craft | Playable Craft | Fireworks | Magic Circle Paper Folding

This craft lets you make a three-dimensional kaleidoscope that changes expressions in a twirling motion—entirely out of origami.

You don’t need glue or scissors; it’s amazing how addictive it is to play with and to watch, even though it’s made only from folded paper.

There are many steps to fold, but you just make identical units using a single folding method, produce them in quantity, and connect them together.

The folding might feel a bit tricky at first, but it’s easy to follow along if you fold while watching the video.

Using colorful origami paper or patterned chiyogami would make it look wonderful, too!

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