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Operation Christmas Child Craft: DIY Spinning Top

September 8, 2016 by CraftPaperScissors 4 Comments

Operation Christmas Child

This week, CraftPaperScissors.com is featuring easy craft projects that can be donated to Operation Christmas Child. Learn more and enter our Plaid giveaway!

By Betsy Burnett of Aim Happy

Operation Christmas Child gives kids all over the world a tangible gift of love in the form of a shoebox stuffed with essentials and comforts.

With my family I  have always found my boys harder to shop for than my girls. The same is true for my shoebox gift packing. While I always have tons of ideas of things I could make or buy for girls shoebox gifts, boys were more difficult, and then I saw a simple top made from a wooden wheel. I knew this would be a perfect toy for either gender! It’s fun to see a child’s face light up when they finally perfect spinning a top.

DIY Spinning Top

DIY Spinning Top

Materials:

  • Wood wheel
  • Dowel that fits snugly into center of wheel
  • Wood Glue
  • Pencil Sharpener
  • Sand paper
  • Paint and brushes-I used Apple Barrel Multi Surface by Plaid in Wild Grape, Primary Blue, True Green and Candy Apple

Instructions:

  • Cut dowel rods to create handles, for ease of spinning I found cutting length no longer than diameter of the wheel worked well
  • Using pencil sharpener “sharpen” one side of the dowel rod. Sand down the point to keep it from being “too sharp”
  • Paint pieces as desired
  • Insert dowel into middle of the wheel, adjust dowel to have a 1/3-2/3 ratio above and below the top.
  • Glue into place

 

How to Get Involved

Readers can check out the Operation Christmas Child website. There they will find shoebox stories, information on how to pack a shoebox gift, find the nearest drop-off location, have free resources sent to them and more! Friend Operation Christmas Child on Facebook.

If they would like to hear more about my personal adventures as the #CrazyShoeboxLady, they can visit my blog and click on “Shoebox 1K.” I’m also on Facebook!

 

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Comments

  1. LuAnn Crim says

    September 8, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    I have participated in a craft for children type in the past, and have donated toward Christmas gift boxes for our troops. I sure would love to win.

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  2. Wanita Mikulski says

    September 11, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Samaritan Purse and Operation Christmas Child are one of my favorite charities. This year it was too warm to handle yarn during the summer for knitting..I usually knit a lot of hats, head bands, and mittens for the boxes. This year I garage saled to get beads from necklaces which I converted to colorful bracelets with elastic string. They were fun and quick to make (watching T.V.). I made almost 30 in 2 evenings. It is a good way to recycle jewelry and bead craft supplies.

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  3. Bridgett Owens says

    September 15, 2016 at 12:11 pm

    Operation Christmas Child is on my heart all year long! I have created YouTube videos of some of the boxes we have sent. I love shopping for these children with my own children. Great items for little boys are balls, puzzles, crayons, coloring books, flash lights with extra batteries, and I could go on and on. Love this sweet gift you are sharing today, a spinning top! God bless you!

    Reply
  4. Laura Cox says

    September 15, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    Such a cute idea! Great for filling the shoeboxes!

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