School supplies like stationary, bags and bottles come in a variety of shapes and colours and they look amazing; it is not wrong to say that the more variety you get the heavier it gets on the pocket.

So, it is better to keep a check on your expenses and reuse the stuff you already have at home by coming up with easy school supplies crafts. Today’s DIY is a pinwheel pencil topper.

Things you need:

1. (A) To make an eight-winged pinwheel, you need four coloured pieces of papers (4x4) which means four-inch wide and four-inch long paper pieces.

(B) To make a four-winged pinwheel you need one piece of paper of the same size.

1. Glue stick

2. Two push pins

3. Scissors

4. Pencil

Directions:

1. Fold all the square pieces of paper in half, diagonally from the middle and cut them, making eight triangular-shaped pieces, see picture 2. Also, cut a small circle from any paper about one centimetre in diameter.

2. Take one triangular piece of paper and paste its top corner on the circular paper you just cut, see picture 3.

3. Paste another triangular paper’s top corner in a similar way on top of the previous triangle, see picture 4.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 till you are done with all the eight triangular pieces, see pictures 5 and 6.

5. Paste glue in the centre and start folding the tip of each triangular paper (we can call them wings) to the centre point, hold and press until it sticks, picture 7.

6. Repeat step 5 on all the wings, picture 8.

7. For a four-winged pinwheel, use the same size of paper; then fold corner to corner then unfold it; this creates a crease in all the four directions, picture 9.

8. Leaving one centimetre from the centre, cut along folded lines from all the four sides, picture 10.

9. Bring every other corner of the paper to the centre and paste glue, pictures 11 and 12.

10. Make a hole in the pencil with a push pin, then insert it through the paper pinwheel and then to the pencil; pictures 13 and 14.

Leave a little space between pinwheel and pencil so that it could spin.

Your pinwheel pencil toppers are ready to spin.

Published in Dawn, Young World, July 11th, 2020