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Materials
- Soda Bottle (I used a 12 oz mini water bottle for mine)
- Bag of sand
- Unsharpened pencil
- Sharpened pencil to draw / trace arrow and tail
- Nail or straight pin
- Tape
- 2 straws – one thinner so the one can slide through the other (these can be found at a fast food restaurant or gas station in different sizes)
- Scissors
- Thick cardstock from which to cut the arrow and tail
- Paper, stickers, crayons, glitter, glue to decorate the bottle
- Ruler
How to Make a Wind Vane
1. Get all your supplies ready and set them out beside you
2. Wash the bottle and peel off the label, setting the bottle aside to dry during the rest of the steps
3. Use the scissors to cut three inches off the thicker straw
4. Use the scissors again to cut 1 inch slits at either end of the longer straw parallel to one another
5. Create the arrow by cutting a triangle out of your cardstock with a 2 inch wide base.
6. Create the tail by cutting a 4 inch square out of your cardstock
7. Slide the long straw into the shorter, wider straw leaving room at either end for the tail and arrow
8. Slide the arrow into the slit at one end of the longer straw and slide the tail into the slit at the opposite end
9. Secure the arrow and tail with tape if they do not seem stable and set this piece aside
10. Fill your clean bottle with the sand for weight
11. Push the straight pin through the middle of the straws
12. Slide the pencil into the sand in the bottle with the eraser sticking up
13. Slide the straight pin into the eraser
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