Make flowers, wearable butterflies, finger puppets, and colorful decorations with pipe cleaners and a few familiar craft supplies.

Shape pink pipe cleaners into layered tulip petals, then add a taped stem and pointed green leaves.

After just one look through our art supplies box, my preschooler found a few pipe cleaners from a long-ago craft, and next thing you know, they had twisted them into magnifying glasses and were going ...