These Pipe Cleaner Carrots are so simple and cute. It is a simple pipe cleaner craft to make. DIY carrots that are perfect carrot craft for preschoolers and little kids to make at Easter time.
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Pipe Cleaner Carrots
This is a fun and easy craft for the kids for Easter or as a spring garden craft for kids. This carrot craft idea is perfect when paired with making a garden of carrots to teach kids about how plants grow. Or, make another spring craft like a Spanish moss birdnest and a clothespin butterfly.
What I Love about this Easter Craft
- It’s a fun craft for little kids to make
- You can add this to a lesson in preschool when you are learning about plants.
- A cute Easter decoration to embellish your Easter decor
Supplies needed
Orange Pipe Cleaner or Chenille Strip – These are the same thing. I grew up calling them pipe cleaners.
Sharpened Pencil – You want it to be sharpened to make the angled shape of the bottom of the carrot. A pencil that is not sharpened will not have the same effect.
Green Raffia – or shredded green paper. This will be used as the greenery for the carrot.
Extra Equipment
Glue – You’ll want some glue to add the greenery to the top of the carrot. I usually prefer tacky glue because it grabs onto the craft quickly so that you can move on. But I don’t think that is necessary for this craft. Kids can use any liquid glue they have. You’ll have to wait for it to dry a little bit longer.
Making the Carrots:
- Take your sharpened pencil and hold it in your hands.
- Starting at the pointed tip, start wrapping the pipe cleaner tightly around the pencil
- Continue to go up until your carrot is as tall as you want it to be
- Trim off any excess pipe cleaner
- Cut a 2-inch piece of green raffia or shredded paper and glue it to the inside of the carrot top.
Let the greenery dry
Expert Tips
When working with little kids, help them out by getting the craft started. You might end up wrapping the pencil with half of the carrot. That’s ok. They will still be able to finish the carrot; believe me, they will take credit for 100% of the work. They will be so proud of their accomplishment.
Variation for DIY Carrots
Use green pipe cleaner for greenery. Just cut 2-inch pieces and bend them over. Push them into the center of the carrot.
FAQs
I like to use a shared pencil as my mold. Just wrap the pipe cleaner around the pencil to shape the carrot.
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Printable Instructions
Pipe Cleaner Carrot Craft
Equipment
- Pair of scissors
Materials
- 1 pipe cleaner orange
- 1 raffia green or shredded green paper
- 1 sharpened pencil
- 1 glue liquid
Instructions
- Take your sharpened pencil and hold it in your hands
- Starting at the pointed tip, start wrapping the pipe cleaner tightly around the pencil
- Continue to go up until your carrot is as tall as you want it to be
- Trim off any excess pipe cleaner
- Cut a 2-inch piece of green raffia or shredded paper and glue it to the inside of the carrot top.
