Make a Canadian wind sock from an oatmeal box, construction paper, string, and crepe paper streamers.

Estimated Time: 45 minutes
Supplies Needed:
  • A cylindrical cardboard oatmeal box
  • Construction paper (red and white)
  • Red and white crepe paper streamers
  • Glue
  • String
  • Scissors
  • Hole punch

Instructions

1.

Cut the bottom off a cylindrical cardboard oatmeal box. Cover the box with red and white construction paper to look like the background of the Canadian flag. Cut out a small red maple leaf and glue it on the white central part of the windsock.

Cylindrical cardboard oatmeal boxDecorated cylindrical cardboard box.
2.

Cut some red and white crepe paper streamers and glue or staple them to one end of the wind sock.

Paper streamers stapled on the box.
3.

Punch four holes along the top of the wind sock.

Punching holes on the top of the box.
4.

Cut two pieces of string about a foot long. Tie the strings to the wind sock (tie the opposite ends of a string to holes on opposite sides of the cylinder). Tie a longer piece of string to the smaller pieces - you’ll hang the wind sock from this piece of string.

Hang your great Canadian wind sock from your window or porch!

The finished Canadian wind sock.