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How to Make a Homemade Skeleton With Packing Peanuts

Whether decorating for Halloween or teaching a young child about anatomy, packing peanuts can be used to make a simple skeleton craft. Use packing peanuts and a few pipe cleaner sticks to make a posable skeleton. Discuss how she is able to move her body at the joints similar to her packing peanut skeleton.

Things You'll Need

  • White pipe cleaner sticks
  • 11 white packing peanuts
  • Long nail
  • 4-inch Styrofoam ball
  • Black permanent marker
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Instructions

    • 1

      Cut one white pipe cleaner stick to 4 inches for the skeleton's torso. Cut two white pipe cleaner sticks to 6 inches. Push a long nail completely through the vertical center of eight packing peanuts. Push the nail through the horizontal center of three packing peanuts.

    • 2

      Push the sides of the Styrofoam ball with your thumb and forefinger to create cheeks. Draw black circles for eyes, a rounded, upside-down triangle for a nose and a black curving line for a smile. Optionally, draw black right angles to make the cheekbones more prominent. Push the nail into the base of the head a 1/2 inch.

    • 3

      Slide three packing peanuts with the horizontal holes onto the 4-inch pipe cleaner stick to create ribs. Wrap the center of the 6-inch pipe cleaner stick around the 4-inch pipe cleaner stick between the top two packing peanuts to create arms. Wrap the center of the other 6-inch pipe cleaner stick around the base of the 4-inch pipe cleaner stick. Angle each side downward to create legs.

    • 4

      Slide two packing peanuts with vertical holes onto each arm. Slide two packing peanuts with vertical holes onto each leg. Bend 1/2 inch of the bottom of each arm to create hands and each leg to create feet. Push the top of the 4-inch pipe cleaner stick into the Styrofoam ball at the base of the head.

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