Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2009
Alphabet Walk
Make binoculars with your children out of toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls. Cover them with construction paper and decorate them with markers, crayons, sticker, etc. Hole punch two holes (one on each side of the binoculars) and tie a string to go around their necks. Then take them on a walk around the neighborhood and look for letters on signs, houses, license plates, cars, etc. Have the children call out the letters they see and try to sound out the words. You could also do this same thing with shapes, colors, or numbers.
Ocean Crafts
This picture is sideways. It is a coral tracer that you can either have the children cut out (if they are skilled with scissors) or you can have them pre-cut for the kids. You let them paint with brushes or fingers with orange, red, etc. and then let them sprinkle puffed rice on top of the paint to look like a coral reef. 
This is a crab that you let the children paint with karo syrup mixed with red dye. It leaves a shiny effect. Have them sprinkle it with sand if they want after they are done painting it.
This lobster can be traced and cut out by the children. Add brad fasteners so that the kids can move the arms.
This is just one of many fish activities you can do. Cut out the triangle for the mouth and use that same triangle for the tail fin. Hole punch the eye to encourange greater hand strength. Then you can color or paint it. We added glitter since we read the Rainbow Fish that day.
*You can also make a "fish bowl" craft by cutting a fish bowl shape out of construction paper, painting it with blue karo syrup, adding small rocks (colored are best) to the bottom of the bowl, then sticking goldfish crackers in the bowl.
*Make sandcastles out of clay and sand mixed together. When they dry the children can take them home.
*Paper bag fish- fill a lunch sack 1/2 full of old newspaper and then tie it with a string. Fan the end of the bag to look like a tail. Add googley eyes to each side and let the children decorate it with markers, crayons, glitter and glue, etc.
*Octopus- Have the children cut eight strips of paper and then # them from 1-8. You could have the top of the octopus already cut out or let them trace and cut it out. Then have them put the legs on the octopus in order 1-8.
*Jellyfish- Have the children trace and cut out a semi-circle for the top of the jellyfish. Use crepe paper for the tenticles. Let them choose how long they want the tenticles and then glue them on to the top. Hang them from the ceiling and the fan or A/C will make them move.
*Sharks- Cut out a large shark head with mouth open and have the children cut out little triangles for the teeth. Have them glue the teeth in the sharks mouth and color the shark.
This is a crab that you let the children paint with karo syrup mixed with red dye. It leaves a shiny effect. Have them sprinkle it with sand if they want after they are done painting it.
This lobster can be traced and cut out by the children. Add brad fasteners so that the kids can move the arms.
This is just one of many fish activities you can do. Cut out the triangle for the mouth and use that same triangle for the tail fin. Hole punch the eye to encourange greater hand strength. Then you can color or paint it. We added glitter since we read the Rainbow Fish that day.
*You can also make a "fish bowl" craft by cutting a fish bowl shape out of construction paper, painting it with blue karo syrup, adding small rocks (colored are best) to the bottom of the bowl, then sticking goldfish crackers in the bowl.*Make sandcastles out of clay and sand mixed together. When they dry the children can take them home.
*Paper bag fish- fill a lunch sack 1/2 full of old newspaper and then tie it with a string. Fan the end of the bag to look like a tail. Add googley eyes to each side and let the children decorate it with markers, crayons, glitter and glue, etc.
*Octopus- Have the children cut eight strips of paper and then # them from 1-8. You could have the top of the octopus already cut out or let them trace and cut it out. Then have them put the legs on the octopus in order 1-8.
*Jellyfish- Have the children trace and cut out a semi-circle for the top of the jellyfish. Use crepe paper for the tenticles. Let them choose how long they want the tenticles and then glue them on to the top. Hang them from the ceiling and the fan or A/C will make them move.
*Sharks- Cut out a large shark head with mouth open and have the children cut out little triangles for the teeth. Have them glue the teeth in the sharks mouth and color the shark.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Fun Activity
Silhouette:
You will need:
White construction paper,
Red construction paper,
glue,
scissors,
markers,
pencil,
masking tape,
smooth wall,
and a light source (lamp, overhead projector, etc.)
Directions:
1. Use masking tape to affix White construction paper onto a smooth wall.
2. Turn on light source.
3. Place child in front of white construction paper facing sideways so that their profile creates a shadow that will fit onto white construction paper. Depending on the size of the child's profile you might have to move the light source closer or further back to make it fit on to the white construction paper.
4. Once established, trace the child's profile with a pencil.
5. Re-trace in black marker. Remove from wall.
6. Cut out white construction paper profile with scissors.
7. Glue profile onto Red construction paper and write the child's name, age, and date on it. And there you have a personal silhouette of your child! Note: You can have your child stand or sit (be sure to provide a chair) inside a large box or a ward robe box while posing for their profile. You can use this for anytime of the year too. Traditionally, silhouettes are traced on Black Construction paper (with white chalk) with a White Construction paper background
Silhouette:
You will need:
White construction paper,
Red construction paper,
glue,
scissors,
markers,
pencil,
masking tape,
smooth wall,
and a light source (lamp, overhead projector, etc.)
Directions:
1. Use masking tape to affix White construction paper onto a smooth wall.
2. Turn on light source.
3. Place child in front of white construction paper facing sideways so that their profile creates a shadow that will fit onto white construction paper. Depending on the size of the child's profile you might have to move the light source closer or further back to make it fit on to the white construction paper.
4. Once established, trace the child's profile with a pencil.
5. Re-trace in black marker. Remove from wall.
6. Cut out white construction paper profile with scissors.
7. Glue profile onto Red construction paper and write the child's name, age, and date on it. And there you have a personal silhouette of your child! Note: You can have your child stand or sit (be sure to provide a chair) inside a large box or a ward robe box while posing for their profile. You can use this for anytime of the year too. Traditionally, silhouettes are traced on Black Construction paper (with white chalk) with a White Construction paper background
Valentine Craft
Arts and Crafts Activity
1. Heart Animals: Make animals out of different shaped hearts.
2. Empty a small box of conversation hearts. Make sure you get the boxes that have the heart shaped cut out with cellophane over it. Take individual pictures of your class using a white background with red hearts hung all around. Cut the front of the box off from the rest of the box. Cut the child's picture out so that it will fit into the heart shape cutout in the box. Laminate and put a magnet on the back. The front of the box makes a precious picture frame
3. Valentine Necklace:
Using cheap clear plastic table cloths or clear plastic cut out hearts (about hand size). Put two together and hole punch them around the edges. Have kids sew them together with red, pink, or white yarn/string. Have them leave an opening at the top. Inside they can stuff a variety of things into the heart like shredded red and pink paper, conversation hearts, valentine candies, etc. Be creative! Then, finish sewing it up, and leave extra string to make a necklace!
1. Heart Animals: Make animals out of different shaped hearts.
2. Empty a small box of conversation hearts. Make sure you get the boxes that have the heart shaped cut out with cellophane over it. Take individual pictures of your class using a white background with red hearts hung all around. Cut the front of the box off from the rest of the box. Cut the child's picture out so that it will fit into the heart shape cutout in the box. Laminate and put a magnet on the back. The front of the box makes a precious picture frame
3. Valentine Necklace:
Using cheap clear plastic table cloths or clear plastic cut out hearts (about hand size). Put two together and hole punch them around the edges. Have kids sew them together with red, pink, or white yarn/string. Have them leave an opening at the top. Inside they can stuff a variety of things into the heart like shredded red and pink paper, conversation hearts, valentine candies, etc. Be creative! Then, finish sewing it up, and leave extra string to make a necklace!
Apple craft
-Apple Core
Need: paper plate, jagged scissors, red paint, watermelon seeds (or black beans work well too.), glue
Directions: Take a paper plate and cut out both sides with jagged scissors. It will look kind of like an hour glass. Use red tempera paint and paint both ends of the plate. Then get watermelon seeds (dry them) and glue three in a triangle in the center of the paper plate. Wa la, an apple core.
Need: paper plate, jagged scissors, red paint, watermelon seeds (or black beans work well too.), glue
Directions: Take a paper plate and cut out both sides with jagged scissors. It will look kind of like an hour glass. Use red tempera paint and paint both ends of the plate. Then get watermelon seeds (dry them) and glue three in a triangle in the center of the paper plate. Wa la, an apple core.
My Body Machine craft
Take the children outside or turn a bright light on in the house.
Take a white piece of construction paper Have the children stand with their side to the paper so that the shadow of their head profile is on the paper.
Trace with pencil.
Take a black piece of paper and place it under the white one and cut out the profile of the head. Glue it onto a large piece of colored paper.
Take a white piece of construction paper Have the children stand with their side to the paper so that the shadow of their head profile is on the paper.
Trace with pencil.
Take a black piece of paper and place it under the white one and cut out the profile of the head. Glue it onto a large piece of colored paper.
Clown face
Math:
Make a clown face with shapes. These websites have the templates you can use. Just print, color, cut and glue.
http://www.first-school.ws/t/esclownc1.htm
http://www.first-school.ws/t/esclownc3.htm
Make a clown face with shapes. These websites have the templates you can use. Just print, color, cut and glue.
http://www.first-school.ws/t/esclownc1.htm
http://www.first-school.ws/t/esclownc3.htm
Balloon Jack O Lanterns
Balloon Jack o Lanterns
Blow up an orange balloon and let the child use a black marker, stickers, or finger paint to draw a face on it.
Blow up an orange balloon and let the child use a black marker, stickers, or finger paint to draw a face on it.
Tissue Ghosts
Tissue Ghosts
You’ll Need: A lollipop, a tissue, a piece of yarn and a marker.
Put the tissue over the sucker, tie around with the string.
Draw eyes and mouth
You’ll Need: A lollipop, a tissue, a piece of yarn and a marker.
Put the tissue over the sucker, tie around with the string.
Draw eyes and mouth
Ants on a Log
Arts and Crafts Activity - Ants on a Log
Have a piece of paper with a line 4inches long on it. Help each child cut a piece of celery to match the line. Give them 1tbls of peanut butter to put inside the celery stick. Let them each have a pile of raisins to be snacking on and tell them to count out 6 and save them to be their ants. Have them put the raisins on top of the peanut butter.
Have a piece of paper with a line 4inches long on it. Help each child cut a piece of celery to match the line. Give them 1tbls of peanut butter to put inside the celery stick. Let them each have a pile of raisins to be snacking on and tell them to count out 6 and save them to be their ants. Have them put the raisins on top of the peanut butter.
Thumb Print Craft
Thumb print craft
*a thumbprint caterpillar with alternating colors,
*a thumbprint flower (4 prints for the petals and 2 prints for the leaves),
*a thumbprint butterfly (4 prints of the same color),
*a thumbprint sun (a whole bunch of prints in a circle),
*a thumbprint bush (prints in a bunch) and
*thumbprint grass (prints in a row)
*you can also use single thumbprints (younger kids) and draw bug legs/faces on them.
Kitty adds: for less experienced crafters, make small pencil marks on the paper to help guide them as to where they should be putting their thumbprints -- this helps with their hand/eye coordination, direction following skills and gets the caterpillars to look like caterpillars!
Let dry, then take your black marker and draw legs a face on the caterpillar, a stem and center on the flower, and a body and antenna on the butterfly.
*a thumbprint caterpillar with alternating colors,
*a thumbprint flower (4 prints for the petals and 2 prints for the leaves),
*a thumbprint butterfly (4 prints of the same color),
*a thumbprint sun (a whole bunch of prints in a circle),
*a thumbprint bush (prints in a bunch) and
*thumbprint grass (prints in a row)
*you can also use single thumbprints (younger kids) and draw bug legs/faces on them.
Kitty adds: for less experienced crafters, make small pencil marks on the paper to help guide them as to where they should be putting their thumbprints -- this helps with their hand/eye coordination, direction following skills and gets the caterpillars to look like caterpillars!
Let dry, then take your black marker and draw legs a face on the caterpillar, a stem and center on the flower, and a body and antenna on the butterfly.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Plants and Gardens Crafts
Coffee Filter Flowers
Get coffee filters and watercolors and let the children paint them. When they are dry, pinch the middle of the coffee filter with your thumb and pointer finger and twist it so it looks like a blossom or a pansy. Twist a pipe cleaner around the bottom of it for the stem. Spray them with perfume.
Lai Making
Cut out small flowers out of construction paper. Punch a hole in the center of them. Cut colored straws into different sized segments. Cut a piece of yarn for each child large enough for a necklace. Let the child alternate using the flowers and straw pieces.
Vase Decorating
Use clean baby food jars (taller ones) for the vase. Let the children cut crepe paper into small pieces. Using a paintbrush, spread glue on one side of the jar at a time and place the crepe paper on it. If you spread glue over the whole thing at once it is rather messy and hard to hold. The children might need help brushing a thin layer of glue over it to keep it all on an laying flat. They will need to dry overnight.
Get coffee filters and watercolors and let the children paint them. When they are dry, pinch the middle of the coffee filter with your thumb and pointer finger and twist it so it looks like a blossom or a pansy. Twist a pipe cleaner around the bottom of it for the stem. Spray them with perfume.
Lai Making
Cut out small flowers out of construction paper. Punch a hole in the center of them. Cut colored straws into different sized segments. Cut a piece of yarn for each child large enough for a necklace. Let the child alternate using the flowers and straw pieces.
Vase Decorating
Use clean baby food jars (taller ones) for the vase. Let the children cut crepe paper into small pieces. Using a paintbrush, spread glue on one side of the jar at a time and place the crepe paper on it. If you spread glue over the whole thing at once it is rather messy and hard to hold. The children might need help brushing a thin layer of glue over it to keep it all on an laying flat. They will need to dry overnight.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Dinosaur Arts and Crafts
Dino Bones
Have the children make their own dinosaur by gluing pasta noodles to a piece of paper. You could also use Q-tips for the bones. Cut some in half for shorter bones. Then have them make up a dinosaur name for their creation.
Dinosaur Sponge Painting
Supply the children with sponges of dinosaurs and paint and have them make a pre-historic scene with them.
Or you could cut out a big triceratops and have them sponge paint it using a mixture of paint and sand. Tell them about how their skin was rough like that.
Torn Paper Dino Pictures
Supply the children with a full sheet of white paper with a dinosaur shape drawn onto it and half sheet of green paper. Ask them to make a dinosaur by tearing pieces of the green paper and gluing them onto the white paper.
Make a dinosaur egg using soap flakes and with a small plastic dinosaur in the center. Use a plastic easter egg to shape it or just squeeze it together with your hands. I don't know the exact amount of water to add to the soap flakes. It may give you ideas on the box.
Have a pre-cut T-Rex head for each child or a very large head for the whole class. Have each child practice their scissors/cutting skills by cutting out teeth for the dinosaur.
Stegosaurus Hats
Make a band that fits around your child's head using construction paper. Then staple another strip that goes from the front on the band to the back straight up and over the top of the head. Extend this using more construction paper so it goes down the center of your child's back. Have your child cut out triangles for stegosaurus plates. Crease the bottom of the triangle and staple them to the paper that goes across the top of the head and down the back (tail).
Have the children make their own dinosaur by gluing pasta noodles to a piece of paper. You could also use Q-tips for the bones. Cut some in half for shorter bones. Then have them make up a dinosaur name for their creation.
Dinosaur Sponge Painting
Supply the children with sponges of dinosaurs and paint and have them make a pre-historic scene with them.
Or you could cut out a big triceratops and have them sponge paint it using a mixture of paint and sand. Tell them about how their skin was rough like that.
Torn Paper Dino Pictures
Supply the children with a full sheet of white paper with a dinosaur shape drawn onto it and half sheet of green paper. Ask them to make a dinosaur by tearing pieces of the green paper and gluing them onto the white paper.
Make a dinosaur egg using soap flakes and with a small plastic dinosaur in the center. Use a plastic easter egg to shape it or just squeeze it together with your hands. I don't know the exact amount of water to add to the soap flakes. It may give you ideas on the box.
Have a pre-cut T-Rex head for each child or a very large head for the whole class. Have each child practice their scissors/cutting skills by cutting out teeth for the dinosaur.
Stegosaurus Hats
Make a band that fits around your child's head using construction paper. Then staple another strip that goes from the front on the band to the back straight up and over the top of the head. Extend this using more construction paper so it goes down the center of your child's back. Have your child cut out triangles for stegosaurus plates. Crease the bottom of the triangle and staple them to the paper that goes across the top of the head and down the back (tail).
All about Bugs- Arts and Crafts
· Make Your Own Bug
What You Need:cotton balls, egg cartons, google eyes, pipe cleaners, construction paper, glitter, any other material that you want to use.What You Do:Cut the egg cartons and let the children make their own bug
· Make an insect collage.
Cut out different bugs from various magazines and make a collage
Make a butterfly
Get a quart size ziploc bag. Have crepe paper, beads, glitter, pom poms, etc. Have the children put these things in the bag and then have the teacher take the bag and divide the things in half (roughly put half of the crete paper, pom poms to one side, leave the rest on the other half). It should look like a bow tie. Then take a pipe cleaner and fold it in half around the middle of the bag. This is the body of the butterfly. Then twist the pipe cleaner and leave the ends sticking up for the antannaes. Each corner of the bag is a tip of the wing.
You could also make a butterfly using coffee filters of any size. Let the children watercolor them and then when dry,scrunch it up in the center and twist a pipe cleaner around the center for the body.
Ladybugs
Cut out a black oval for the body and a circle for the head. Make a red circle for the wings the same size as the black oval. Cut the red oval in half the long way. Glue the head to the black oval and using a brad fastener (by the neck) put the red wings on so they can open and close. Using a hole punch cut out holes in the wings so the black oval shows through and makes spots on the wings. You can use googly eyes or punch out holes for the eyes too.
Flyswatter painting
You'll need to give yourself some room on this one. This is great to do outside. Get a clean flyswatter and some paint on a paper plate. Using large paper (butcher paper is great or large construction paper works) have the child paint with the flyswatter. You could glue on little insects to the paper and have them try to swat them.
What You Need:cotton balls, egg cartons, google eyes, pipe cleaners, construction paper, glitter, any other material that you want to use.What You Do:Cut the egg cartons and let the children make their own bug
· Make an insect collage.
Cut out different bugs from various magazines and make a collage
Make a butterfly
Get a quart size ziploc bag. Have crepe paper, beads, glitter, pom poms, etc. Have the children put these things in the bag and then have the teacher take the bag and divide the things in half (roughly put half of the crete paper, pom poms to one side, leave the rest on the other half). It should look like a bow tie. Then take a pipe cleaner and fold it in half around the middle of the bag. This is the body of the butterfly. Then twist the pipe cleaner and leave the ends sticking up for the antannaes. Each corner of the bag is a tip of the wing.
You could also make a butterfly using coffee filters of any size. Let the children watercolor them and then when dry,scrunch it up in the center and twist a pipe cleaner around the center for the body.
Ladybugs
Cut out a black oval for the body and a circle for the head. Make a red circle for the wings the same size as the black oval. Cut the red oval in half the long way. Glue the head to the black oval and using a brad fastener (by the neck) put the red wings on so they can open and close. Using a hole punch cut out holes in the wings so the black oval shows through and makes spots on the wings. You can use googly eyes or punch out holes for the eyes too.
Flyswatter painting
You'll need to give yourself some room on this one. This is great to do outside. Get a clean flyswatter and some paint on a paper plate. Using large paper (butcher paper is great or large construction paper works) have the child paint with the flyswatter. You could glue on little insects to the paper and have them try to swat them.
Alphabet Book
Make an Alphabet Book. Each page has a different letter on it. Let the children draw pictures that begin with each letter. Example: draw Bugs on the B page of your Alphabet Book.
This could be a good on-going craft and/or activity that would help the children learn their Letters.
This could be a good on-going craft and/or activity that would help the children learn their Letters.
Farm Animal Crafts
Paint your childrens toes with pink paint. Then have them press them on paper. Now you can have your children decorate the toe prints as pigs and make a farm on the rest of the paper -
Cut out a pig using pink paper. Let your children finger paint it using chocolate pudding.
Cut out the shape of a sheep from a sheet of construction paper. Use a googly eye or punch out a hole for the eye with a hole punch. Use cotton balls and elmer's glue and have the children make them look fluffy like sheep.
Sponge paint a cow cut out using black and white paints, or brown.
Cut out a duck shape and have the children decorate it using yellow crepe (and orange for the beak) and glue. An easy way to do this is to give them paint brushes and have them brush the glue across the duck and then they can put down several pieces of crepe paper at a time. It's less of a mess with the glue. You could also have the children tear up yellow and orange paper and glue that on.
Cut out a pig using pink paper. Let your children finger paint it using chocolate pudding.
Cut out the shape of a sheep from a sheet of construction paper. Use a googly eye or punch out a hole for the eye with a hole punch. Use cotton balls and elmer's glue and have the children make them look fluffy like sheep.
Sponge paint a cow cut out using black and white paints, or brown.
Cut out a duck shape and have the children decorate it using yellow crepe (and orange for the beak) and glue. An easy way to do this is to give them paint brushes and have them brush the glue across the duck and then they can put down several pieces of crepe paper at a time. It's less of a mess with the glue. You could also have the children tear up yellow and orange paper and glue that on.
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