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Teepee Craft

This is a fairly simple craft for kids to make (you likely remember making one as a child).  It's fun for them to get creative when they decorate the paper before wrapping it around the straws.

Materials:

  • scissors
  • tape
  • 3 drinking straws or straight twigs
  • something to decorate with (markers, stickers, paints, etc).
  • paper and printer

teepee craft 

Directions:

  • Print the template of choice.
     
  • If using the B&W template, use markers, pencil crayons, stickers or paints to decorate the teepee as you see fit.
     
  • Cut out the template.

  • tape one straw on either side of the opening so it sticks up through the hole where the top of the teepee will be and so there's a fair sizes flap of paper between the opening and the straw. 
     
  • Tape the last straw in between the first two.
       craft teepee 

  • Form your paper into a cone with the straws on the inside, sticking up through the opening in the top.
     
  • Tape or glue your cone so it holds (I find tape works better).


 

Templates:

  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
        

  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

 

Template      (color)   or   (B&W)     

 

   

Printable version of these instructions