I’ve been asked on several occasions how I made all the pinwheels at our wedding. I used pinwheels as they reminded me of my grandmother who always had them in her garden. Pinwheels are super easy to make – trust me, if I can do it, you can too!
I searched high and low on the internet, reading tutorial after tutorial yet none of them quite worked how I wanted them too. So, I came up with my own version.
Supplies for Pinwheels
- 12″ x 12″ double sided scrapbook paper
- Floral pins
- Wooden dowels and/or skewers (skewers are great if you’re sticking the pinwheels in the ground)
- Beads
- Drill
- Daisy shaped craft punch
- Scissors (a paper cutter also works great to cut the paper in quarters)
- Ruler
Directions
- {figure 1} Using the daisy (or similar flower) craft punch, make one small flower per pinwheel.
- {figure 2} With the drill (1/4″), drill a hole approximately 1″ from the top in your dowels/skewers.
- {figure 3} Measure and cut several 6″ squares using your scrapbook paper.
- {figure 3} Use your ruler and draw a diagonal line from each corner to form an “X”.
- {figure 3} Cut along each of the lines from each corner, stopping about an inch from the center.
- {figure 3} With your floral pin, make a hole in the center where the lines meet.
- {figure 4} Place one bead and one floral paper cut-out onto the floral pin.
- {figure 5} With your pin, bead and floral paper cut-out, poke it through one of the corners.
- {figure 6} Going around the pinwheel, do the same with every other corner until the four corners meet, being careful to not crease/flatten the paper. Push the pin through the center of the square.
- {figure 7} Place 1-2 beads on the pin on the back of the pinwheel then push the pin into the pre-drilled hole on your dowel.
- {figure 8} Gently bend the back of the floral pin down so it lays flat with the wood dowel and secure it with tape (any clear tape will do).
Give em’ a whirl because you’re done!
As I said, there are MANY variations on how to make pinwheels. I tried a few others but found this to work the best for me. Here are a few other options:
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Thank you soo much for this tutorial!! Your wedding looked amazing!! Your pinwheel is the only pinwheel idea I found that actually works!! My fiance and I are using pinwheels as escort cards with everyone’s names and table numbers on them!! Soo cute!!
You are welcome! I, too, had tried several different tutorials before taking bits and pieces from them all to come up with this which worked really well.
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