This is the third in a series of five Olympic activities for kids. Each features a craft element and an interactive part. The first activity is an interactive snowboarding craft. The second activity is a figure skater themed activity uses a magnet to make the skater move. Today’s activity invites children to create a wooden peg skier, a moveable ski lift, and a painted paper plate background.
Olympic Activities for Kids- Creating the Skier
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There are several activities children will need to complete to put this interactive craft together. The first thing they will need to do is create the skier. Each of your children will need a wooden peg doll. The skier will need a coat, goggles, and hat. Your children can choose to add more details to each of those elements if they like. (We kept ours pretty simple.)
Olympic Activities for Kids- Creating the Paper Plate Background
Your children will need blue and white paint to create the sky portion of the plate. A large section of the plate will need to be painted blue to make it appear that the ski lift is high off the ground.
If your children want to they can add small houses or skiers to the white section. (We chose to keep that area blank.)
When the paint is dry, you will need to punch a hole on the right and left sides of the plate with a hole punch. A length of yarn will need to thread through both holes. The end of the yarn will need to be tied together on the back of the plate to form a loop. Children will need to make sure the loop is loose enough so the yard can be pulled to make the ski lift move.
Olympic Activities for Kids- Creating the Ski Lift Chair
Your children will need the following to put the ski lift together:
- Cardboard from a jello or pudding box
- Bendy Straws
- Glue Sticks
- Scissors
- Paper Clips
First, children will need to cut out the corner of the box to create the seat for the ski lift.
Next, they will need to glue the top of the bendy straw to the seat section of the cardboard. The straight section after the bendy part of the straw will be glued to the back of the seat. The remaining part of the straw will be attached paper clip. Once the paper clip is attached, they can cut off some of the straw if needed.
Then children will need to cut two slits in the straw to attach a paper clip. (The paper clip will slip easily over the yarn and help the straw stay rigid.)
The paper clip will then need to be attached to the yarn.
Finally, the skier will need to be glued onto the chair.
Making the Ski Lift Chair Move
By slowly pulling the yarn upwards the chair with the skier will move slowly to the top of the lift.
My grandson loves to do craft activities like this. He’s coming over for a sleepover this weekend and I’m bookmarking this so he can make it. It’s so cute!
What a wonderful creative imagination you must have to make something like this. I would never have thought of making something like this. Kids will love it.
So fun! My daughter would have a blast making this. This is so creative. It’s going to be exciting watching the Winter Olympics.
Now that is really cute! That would be a fun project to make with the kids. They have Monday off this coming week and I’m always trying to think of creative ideas to do with them on their days off.
I totally need to do this with my girls. They love all things crafty and would have so much fun with this. Thanks for the idea!
Let me know how it goes! I would love to see how your version of the craft turns out.
My daughter will love this craft. She is crafting just about every day. She got a hot glue gun with her Christmas money and it’s been used non-stop.
Her glue gun will be the perfect tool to glue the skier to the lift chair.
This is such a cute idea! We will be watching the winter Olympics, and this would be cute for our art project for homeschool.
It is a fun craft and science activity! The yarn on the ski lift is a pulley.
What an adorable idea for the kids. I’m going to save this idea for our next snow day, which I hope is soon!
This really would be a great snowy day activity! I hope you get snow too!
I love doing crafts with my children. These are great recommendations and I am excited to give them a try!
I am thrilled that you like this activity!
That is an adorable craft idea. I first watched the Olympics as a child, we’d sit as a family and watch events on the television together.
My family did too! I think we watched every event.
Crafts like this can really help brain development of the child. I would love doing this when I have kids.
It really is fun to tie learning to a craft!
These are cute crafts for getting kids interested in the Olympics!! I also can’t believe it’s almost time for the Olympics again!!
It really does seem to have snuck up on us. I am glad you like the activity!
This is a nice activity and something the kids will love. Using the yarn to make the ski lift go up would be something that would fascinate the kids.
It really is fun to make the ski lift work!
This is a really nice craft to do with kids. We have been watching the olympic channel in anticipation with the upcoming winter olympics.
This is such a cute and creative craft! Never in a million years would I have thought of this.
I am so glad you like it. The Olympics has been on my mind for awhile. I think that helped with coming up with the activity.
OMG I’m loving these ideas! So fun! I can’t believe the Olympics are coming up – always such an exciting time! I love watching the games!
We are looking forward to the Olympics too.
Lovely! I like that this will inspire kids to dream of being in the Olympics someday. I will share this post with my teacher friend so she can include this activity in her class.
Thank you so much for sharing this activity! I am glad you stopped by.