These adorable Dancing Princesses are the cutest Pipe Cleaner Craft for kids, are mess-free, great for imaginary play and make sweetest room decorations.
My girls love using them to act out stories and plays. There’s something wonderfully tactile about them. The simple elegance and lack of features allows them to truly engage in their own ‘make believe’ world.
You may also like some of my other pipe cleaner crafts: pipe cleaner snowdrops, pipe cleaner daffodils, and pipe cleaner reindeer.
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Materials For Paper Napkin Dancing Princesses Pipe Cleaner Craft
The great thing about these Paper Napkin Pipe Cleaner Princesses is that they are mess-free! There’s no paint, glitter or glue!
- cotton pipe cleaners (15cm or 30cm) – if you’re not in the UK you may be restricted to white or unbleached pipe cleaners
- paper napkins (plain or patterned),
- cotton thread
- pair of scissors
How To Make The Dancing Princesses Body
Take pipe cleaners per princess. Bend both pipe cleaners in half and twist the top of one to make the head.
Next, wrap the second pipe cleaner around the first to form a small body and arms, twisting at the back to tie off.
How To Make The Dancing Princesses Dress
Take one paper napkin and add some concertina creases.
And then gently twist the napkin, to add texture to the dresses.
Untwist the napkin and cut the very tip of the center off. This is where the head will go. Next open up the napkin and cut two small slits straight either side of the neck opening. These will be for the arms.
Scrunch the napkin in slightly and lay the pipe cleaner body in place so you can trim the dress to length. Make sure you keep it as long as the legs as this helps the princess to stand up.
Insert the pipe cleaner body into the napkin dress with the arms pointing up and insert then carefully first, finishing with the head. Finally, tie some cotton around the middle to define the waist and your princess if complete.
The length of the napkin dress helps the Dancing Princesses stand up on their own.
These are beautiful!
This is so creating… final effect is stunning.
Love these dancing ladies!
sometimes the simplest things are the most creative, and these look beautiful
Looking forward to trying this. Pinned it. (=
These are so beautiful! Would be great table centres for a school ball 🙂 Thanks for sharing at #Pintorials x
So nice..
Thanks for sharing. I like it so much.
So pretty and not as hard as it looks! Thanks for sharing with After School Link Up!
Love these! They are fun & look really easy to create. Love the different poses too.
These are gorgeous! They look super ladylike 🙂 #pintorials
Belíssimos!!!!!!
These are amazing! I would never have imagined something so lovely could come from a pipe cleaner and a napkin. Thanks for linking this up at After School!
These are beautiful…I’m inspired!! Thanks so much for linking up!
I am hopping over from Truly Lovely after seeing your feature there! These dolls are absolutely adorable! Thanks for the tutorial! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
How beautiful!! I love them. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
Soooo very cute ,Thank you for your creation .(;)
These dancing princesses are totally adorable! Thanks for sharing the tute! I am sure the granddaughter will LOVE making these 🙂 If you have time, stop by and link up to our Snickerdoodle Sunday sometime!
These are so adorable!
precious and beautiful!
Nice and easy!
how did you get them to stand ? thanks 🙂
The napkin stands them up 🙂
Very cool idea. This would be so fun to do with kids. Very creative but very messy. Love it.
They look so effective! Love the colours!
Love, love this idea! Would it be better if I used one ply napkins? I can’t wait to do this. Thank you so much.
Thicker 2/3 ply napkins are better as they help the little ladies stand up. I found 1 ply tore easily.
i just made these with 2 granddaughters, ages 9 & 6. Very easy & fun. Charming results. Used large & small napkins.
These are adorable! Can’t wait to make these with my granddaughters!
So cool I wanna make a boyfriend for her I want a tutorial in him thx
very nice those baillarinas , but how did you get them stand?
Thanks
Hi, the ballerinas stand up on their own if you open up the legs so the back of the napkin dress is just touching the floor 🙂
How do they stand up
Hi, it’s a combination of the legs and napkin skirt.
I bet you could also make the dress out of cupcake papers. As a matter of fact when I first looked at your post I thought that’s what the dress was made of. I think that might even be easier since the creases are already in the cupcake papers. Great idea though…these are simply adorable. Thanks!
Full size napkins or dessert napkins?
Either will work. You’ll just have to trim more off the full sized ones and the feet may show with the desert napkins
So so elegant and so easy. Thank you so much for sharing!
I used a coffee filter, too :). Works d great! But all the dresses are white. . . 🙂
I was thinking when I first saw it that they were coffee filters to
The idea was super easy and excellent after finishing the doll we decorated it and made eyes and fashion the dress and make fancy belt. Thanks a lot for sharing
so cute perfect fore my summer dance class crafts.<3 (:
Such a great and easy tutorial. I love them. Thanks for sharing.
Hey what do you think about coffee filters ? Would that work
Yes, they would work and you could colour them as well!
soo cool!, pretty too!
Easy and simple steps helped to create the dolls. Thanks for sharing.