Make Child-Size Totem Poles With Common Household Products
Depending upon how creative or intricate your project, you can use practically anything around the house to create home-made totem pole with children.
Some basic materials to choose from:
- Scissors
- Glue, paste or tape (regular or double-stick), stapler
- multiple colored sheets of construction paper (red, green, blue, black, white, purple, yellow)
- colored pencils
- Crayons
- markers
- finger paint
- water color paint
- colored chalk
- carving knives (for pumpkins)
- heavy-duty paper or cardboard
Types of pole designs you could make include walking sticks, wall hangings, signs, masks, hanging mobiles, houses or lodges, gretting cards, costumes, or poles!
Poles or stackable items could include:
- Oatmeal carton
- PCV Pipe
- yard stick
- dowel
- shoe boxes
- popsicle sticks or tongue depressors
- milk cartons
- egg cartons
- toilet paer tubes
- gift wrap tubes
- saran wrap, paper towel or aluminum foil tubes
- pumpkins
- with permission you could even decorate a flag pole or telephone pole!
