Let children place the cracked cups upside down on the cookie sheet. 4. Allow the tray to cool, away from children's reach, for 10 minutes. Show children how to string yarn through the holes and tie their chimes onto the branches they collected. Suggest that they tie another piece of yarn to the top of the chime to hang it. Encourage children to decorate cups with large, solid blocks of color.
Thin lines tend to disappear when the cup melts.
Closely supervise children when they are making the hole in the cup and when they are near the oven and the hot tray. Spin-Offs Make chimes again, this time using materials that don't need to be melted, like pine cones, paper clips, or bells. Children might also want to bring in recycled materials from home. Take the wind chimes outside and tie them up on a tree. These books offer a wealth of art activity ideas that can be enjoyed out in the sun.