The kids and I are enjoying the wonderful spring weather and decided to do a craft in honor of the warm breezes. These simple wind socks only take about 20-30 minutes to make and are weather proof enough to handle gentle rain.
1. Place a rectangular piece of foam with the long side parallel to the table. Use foam stickers to decorate the foam rectangle. It's important to keep the sides empty approximately 1/2" from the short edge. If desired, foam pieces could be cut out and attached with glue. Glued on pieces to set for up to 12 hours.
2. Place Velcro adhesive dots or squares at the top, middle, and bottom of the short edges. One side of the Velcro should be placed on the decorated side of the foam, the other group of Velcro tabs should be placed on the non-decorated side.
I loosely folded the ends together to match where the Velcro tabs were placed.
3. Poke two holes opposite each other on the top of the wind sock. Cut ribbon or elastic to desired length (mine were about 10") and knot into each hole.
4. Poke 4-6 equally spaced holes in the bottom of the wind sock. Cut ribbon to desired length and attach with knots to holes.
We stapled out windsocks to our porch roof. It may be necessary to take down the wind socks in extremely windy weather.
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