What you will need: Macaroni and cheese box, glue, paint, and decorative trims (optional)Craft Patterns for ABC, I Believe
Cardboard File Box
What you will need: Macaroni and cheese box, glue, paint, and decorative trims (optional)
What to do:
1. Carefully open up the ends of your box. Leave the side glued together. Flatten out the box so that the front of the box is lying in front of you as show in the first diagram. One of the side panels of the box should be on the top. The top and bottom flaps should be laying flat also as shown in the picture.
2. Cut the top fold as shown with the top red line in the first diagram. Cut 1" down on the front of the box as shown in the first diagram by the second red line.
3. The box should still be laying flat. Remove the part you cut away. Your box should look like the second diagram.
4. Measure 1" down from each side of the box (the top and bottom tabs) and then draw a line up to top where the bottom or top tabs meat the back panel as shown in the picture. Cut away the triangle shape.
5. Turn the box inside out and glue it back together.
4. Have the children paint the box and glue on decorative trims.
5. You may also want to glue magnets to the back of the box so that the boxes can be stored on the refrigerator.
If you don't have Macaroni & Cheese Box, you can use this pattern. Cut the pattern from card stock. Cut on the solid lines and fold on the dotted lines. Glue the side flaps closed.
What you will need: Black poster board, black pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, glue, tape, scissors, and a hole punch.
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What you will need: Card stock, crayons or markers, thread, hole punch, and scissors
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What you will need: Printer paper, crayons, tape or glue, and a stapler.
What to do:
1. Print out the pages. Print the Head Pattern on yellow paper, or have your children color the patterns with yellow crayon. Print the rest of the patterns on white paper - Feet, Wings, and Neck Pattern and Black Body Pattern. (Printing Problems?)
2. Place all the circle, one on top of the other, starting with the biggest black pattern. Place each smaller pattern on top of the larger pattern. Align all the circles so that they are even at the top and staple them at the top.
3. Cut out the wings, legs, and antennae and glue them to the bee. Glue the legs onto the black body pieces as shown and the antennae to the head. Glue the wings to the back of the book.
What you will need: Two or three Styrofoam dinner plates or heavy duty paper plate for each lion, one small paper plate, acrylic paint, glue or staples, large paper clip, and sticky note paper or plain paper.
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What you will need: Crayons or markers, Small plastic food baggies (don’t have to be zip-lock), yellow pompoms (large ones are better) OR you can substitute tissue paper (scrunched up balls), yellow and orange construction paper, stapler, staples, glue sticks, scissors.
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What you will need: Card stock, crayons, dry uncooked long curly noodles, red food dye and rubbing alcohol
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Scaredy Cat Hand Puppet Craft for Kids
What you will need: card stock (heavy paper) orange construction paper or computer paper, crayons, scissors, glue or tape.
What to do:
1. Print out the patterns for the top of the head (Large file or small file) and the jaw (Large file or small file) onto cardstock. (I used a tan color).
2. Before class cut out the patterns and assemble them if you don't have much time in class.
3. Starting with the top of the head (the pattern with the eyes) fold on the fold lines and also make a crease from the top of the nose to the top of the dotted lines as shown in the picture. Glue the smaller trapezoid shape to the center tabs. This will be the roof of the lions mouth. Then bring down the sides of the larger trapezoid and glue over the tabs that have the smaller trapezoid glued to it.
4. To make the jaw, fold in on all the dotted lines except the top fold. The tab should be on the inside. Glue the tabs down to form an envelope shape. Fold the top tab away from the opening in the envelope. Glue the tab onto the inside of the lion's head so that the opening of the envelope shape is on the outside. The child should be able to put his fingers in the lion's head and his thumb in the lion's jaw and open and close the mouth by moving their fingers and thumbs away from each other.
5. In class show the children how to cut long strips of construction paper about 1/2" thick (Or cut them before class). Have them curl the construction paper strips around a pencil or crayon and then glue them to the head. To finish glue the ears on and color the puppet.
What you will need: Card stock, crayons or markers, thread, hole punch, and scissors
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What you will need: Wooden craft spoons, yellow and back markers or paint, yellow fun foam, black pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, black pompoms, and glue.
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What you will need: Plastic spoons, Plaster of Paris, 3/4” round magnets (optional), tiny wiggly eyes, hot melt glue gun, black pipe cleaners, red paint or markers, black and yellow paint or markers, and black and yellow fun foam.
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What you will need: TP roll, card stock, glue or tape, crayons or markers, scissors.
What to do:
1. Print out the elephant pattern, elephant head, elephant body and cut them out. Color the body, head and trunk. Glue the body onto a TP roll. Fan fold the elephant’s trunk and then tape it onto the head.
2. Glue of tape the head to the body.
Bendable Flamingo
What you will need: 3 1/2" Styrofoam egg shape, 1 1/2" pink pompom, pink pipe cleaners, googly eyes, white craft fun foam, pink craft fun foam, pink straws with the bends, pink feathers, pink paint, black permanent ink marker, and glue.
What to do:
1. Paint the Styrofoam egg shape pink and let it dry.
2. Wrap three pipe cleaners around each other to make the neck. Glue a pink pompom onto one end of the pipe cleaners for the head. Cut a beak shape from white fun foam and color the end black with a permanent ink marker. Glue the beak onto the pompom. Glue on wiggly eyes. Stick the other end of the pipe cleaner neck into the egg shape body at the wider end of the egg.
3. To make the legs, stick a pipe cleaner inside a pink straw. Make two. Cut to the length you would like the legs, but leave some of the pipe cleaner sticking out of the straw at the feet end. Stick the legs into the egg shape as shown. (Use hot melt glue to secure the legs so they don't fall out.)
4. Cut webbed feet shapes from pink fun foam. Cut two for each foot. Stick the pipe cleaner that is sticking out from the straw through one layer of the webbed foot shape and bend it so it is laying flat against the foot. Glue another webbed foot shape over the end of the pipe cleaner and to the back of the webbed feet.
5. Glue pink feathers to the egg shaped body to finish.
6. Have fun posing the flamingo by bending his neck and feet. See if you can balance him so he can stand on his own.
Comments abou this Craft: I just wanted to give some helpful tips for the craft. I am in a hurry – always. I only have about 6 – 10 minutes designated for craft so I have to do much of the craft prep myself and just leave the assembly for the kids. I bought a huge square of florist foam and one package of florist wire (the wire was pre-cut into lengths). I inserted the wire into each egg shape and stuck it down in the foam square (so that all the eggs were sticking up out of the foam square on the wire lengths – it was like having 20 pairs of extra hands.) This way when I spray painted the eggs pink I didn’t have to touch them. After they dried I sprayed on spray adhesive and put on the feathers while they were still on the wire. It worked great for the all the “spraying” parts.
Also, I wasn’t sure about making the beak out of white foam so I bought what my craft store called bump chenille pipe cleaners in white and cut them apart at each “bump”. If you fold them in half and glue the thick end to the face of the bird, it is a pretty realistic beak shape – the thin end becomes the beak and is even open like a beak would be. I will have the kids color them black and assemble the rest of the bird during class. I am looking forward to teaching this lesson this week. I just thought I’d share these assembly tricks with you. Jennifer
What you will need: Card Stock, pipe cleaners, markers or crayons, tape (optional: large craft sticks).
What to do:
1. Before class print out the* pattern (Large file or small file) and make copies onto card stock.
2. Cut out the locust if your children have a hard time cutting.
3. In class have the children color the locust then fold a pipe cleaner in half and tape it to the inside of the head. Tape the heads together near the eyes and fold up the legs.
4. You can also cut apart the locust and glue them to a craft stick to make a puppet.
What you will need: Card stock, markers or crayons, tape or glue, scissors
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What you will need: Purple or blue computer paper, scissors, gold trim, ribbon, sequins, glitter glue, or anything that would look pretty on the banner, wooden dowels and gold beads to fit on the ends, and gold cording or ribbon to hang the banner.
What to do:
2. In class have the children cut out the banners and decorate them anyway they would like.
3. To assemble, fold back the tabs at the top of the banner as shown and glue them around the dowel. Tie a gold cord on the top to finish.
What you will need: Small paper plates, pink and peach fun foam or construction paper, crayons or markers, scissors, yarn or jute string, raffia or ribbon for a bow, hole punch, glue and stapler.
What to do:
Before class print out the pig pattern (Large file or small file) You can print it out on pink card stock or print it out on white card stock and have the children color the pigs. You could also use the pattern to cut pigs from pink fun foam. Cut the snout from a different shade of pink so that it will stand out. Write the verse on the front of the paper plate. Have the children color the paper plates. When they are finished staple them together to form a basket. Punch holes in the sides and tie string or yarn to form a handle. You can tie raffia or ribbon on top of the handle to form a bow. Glue the pig face and hoofs onto the front of the basket so that it looks like the pig is hanging out.
What you will need: Paper, crayons, brown kid’s paint, pieces of sponge.
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What you will need: Card stock, crayons, yellow paper (optional), tape, scissors, stapler, googly eyes.
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What you will need: large paper plates, small paper plates, yellow, black, and white construction paper, black markers, black paint and paint brushes, glue gun, and black feathers.
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What you will need: Card stock, crayons or markers, macaroni noodles, white paint, and glue.
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Sheep with Shaking Head - This little guy looks great in your car. It shakes it’s head up and down as you drive.
What you will need: Cotton balls, card stock, black markers, scissors, staples, glue
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Shepherd Boy with Sheep Standup Figure
What you will need: Card stock, colored pencils or crayons, tape and scissors.
What to do:
2. In class have the children color the shepherd and then bring the sides together to form a cone shape so that he can stand up.
What you will need: tan or brown sock, googly eyes, 3 pieces of black fun foam, light pink and dark pink felt, card board, acrylic paint - tans, browns, and oranges, and yellows) hot melt glue gun, scissors.
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King of King Banner
“Pig in a Basket” craft
