Pipe cleaner Ninjas

To make them, you will need:

• Pipe cleaners

• Colored drinking straws

• Plastic pony beads

• Wooden beads for the heads

• Scissors

• Glue

• Sharpies

Step 1: Twist 3 pipe cleaners together in the middle, and bend them to look like this:

Make sure that you do at least a couple of complete twists, or the pipe cleaners won’t stay together.

Step 2: Slide 3 pony beads over both of the legs together.

Step 3: Cut a drinking straw into 8 1″ segments. Slide two segments onto each arm. Slide two segments onto each leg with a pony bead in the middle of the leg segments.

Step 4: Twist the extra pipe cleaner into hands and feet. For the hands, I made one loop for the “hand” and a smaller loop for a thumb. Then I wrapped the excess around the wrist to help keep the straws from sliding off. For the feet, I just made one loop and then wrapped the excess around the ankle.

Step 5: Draw a face on a wooden bead and slide it over the top two pipe cleaners. Since we didn’t want hair, we needed a way to deal with the extra pipe cleaners sticking out of the top of the head. What we ended up doing was twisting the two pipe cleaners a few times, cutting it off, and putting a little Tacky Glue on the pipe cleaner ends to keep them from untwisting. I figured that the ends would stick to the head like a little pony tail. Well, the ends did not stay attached to the head, but with the glue, they haven’t untwisted, and the heads have not come off.