Seashell Wind Chime

If you live near the beach, take your preschooler on a little outing to collect seashells. When you get home, extend the adventure by creating a seashell wind chime that your preschooler will be proud to hang. Even if you don’t live where seashells are abundant, a trip to the craft store will supply you with an outstanding assortment of shells for this preschool craft.

As with any preschool craft, this is a suggestion of how to make it. You can modify the instructions to work for you and your family and use supplies you have on hand.

What You Will Need

8 seashells (more if you like)
Plastic margarine type container
8 twelve inch pieces of colorful yarn (one for each shell)
One long piece of yarn for hanging the chime (about 1 foot)
White glue or tape
Hole punch (or something sharp to poke holes in plastic container)
Paint, markers, stickers etc. for decorating (optional)

How to Make It

Step One:

Lay out all of the shells. Glue a piece of yarn to each shell. Help your preschooler with this for you need to use a lot of glue. This will need to dry for some time so stop and have a snack, play a game or, for best results, wait until the next day. Or if you are short on time, use tape.

Step Two: (optional)

Let your preschooler decorate the container with paint, markers, stickers, or however he/she likes.

Step Three:

Punch holes in the plastic container. Try to space them equally. Punch/poke a hole in the bottom of the container for hanging.

Step Four:

When you are sure that the glue has dried, let your preschooler thread each piece of yarn through a hole in the container and you tie it off.

Step Five:

Now that the shell chimes are attached, thread the piece of hanging yarn through the hole in the bottom of the container and tie off. Then, help your preschooler choose a breezy place to hang their seashell wind chime and enjoy the music!

Variations

If your preschooler doesn’t have a seashell collection change the craft into a nature mobile and incorporate things you may find on a nature walk around the block or in the back yard.

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