With all of our interest in birds lately, I thought it would be fun to make "Bird Watchers" a.k.a. binoculars. I save a lot of things out of the recycling bin for potential craft projects, so I had a bunch of toilet paper tubes. I keep my nieces on Wednesdays, so it was the perfect afternoon craft.
First we painted the toilet paper tubes. (By the way, a cut open cereal box works great as a painting placemat!)
After the paint dried (and while the kids were napping), I tied the two tubes together like this.
Then I punched holes on the outer side of each tube on one end to rung a string through so that they could wear them around their necks.
When they woke up from their naps, the "bird watchers" were all ready for a bird watching adventure. Here we are on our exciting bird hunt/getting the mail. So much fun!
Always,
Amanda
