In this weeks craft we made wind flags using coloured fabric and wooden rods. Children can often be quite frightened of wind as it howls under their window panes at night, but give them a wind flag and ask them to run down a hill, and their fear immediately turns to exhilaration!

What you will need:

•Coloured cotton, preferably with an open weave so you can get a fairly thick blunt (safe), needle through it.

•Coloured cotton thread

•Scissors

•Short fat tacks

•Hammer

•PVA glue

•Lengths of wooden dowel blunt on each end.

How to:∙

Simply cut long triangles out of the cotton fabric

∙Next cut out some shapes in contrasting colours

∙Sew them onto your triangles

∙Then roll the wide end of your fabric onto the stick and attach with glue or your short tacks