New Year
Crafts and
Learning Activities for Children
How to Make Crafts for New Years Including: Printable New Years Booklet, Free Happy New Year's Pop Out Card, New Year's 2012
Calendars, New Year Baby Card, Lion
and Lamb New Year's Poster , New
Year Party Hats, New
Year Piñata Craft
Turning Over a New Leaf New Year's Resolution Printable Activity Sheet
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Inchworm Turning Over a New Leaf New Year's Resolution Printable Activity Sheet
Turn over a new leaf with this adorable little inchworm!
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"I'm Turning Over a New Leaf" Printable New Years Booklet
 What you will need: Green printer paper, scissors, and a stapler.
How to make: 1. Cut out three large leaf shapes from green computer paper. Write I'm Turning Over a New Leaf!" on one leaf with the date. Draw lines on the other two leaves and label one "Old Leaf" and the other "New Leaf". (Printable patterns for this activity is available to members.)
2. Staple the pages together to make a book.
3. Explain to your children that at idiom is a phrase or expression that means something different than what the words actually seem to say. Ask them if they have ever heard of the expression "I'm turning over a new leaf", and if they think they know what it means. If you use the literal meaning, you would picture someone picking a new leaf from a tree and turning it over, but that isn't the meaning of the expression.
 The pages in books used to be called leaves. Some books were even written on actual leaves such as palm leaves. When you say you are "turning over a new leaf", you are saying that you are "turning a new page" or starting anew. You're no longer going to do what you did before. You are going to do something different or better, or write a new page in your life story.
4. Have your children think about what they would like to change in their life story, maybe something that they keep doing over and over that they know isn't good for them, maybe a bad habit, or something that bothers others, or something that keeps them from achieving their goals. Then have them write on the "Old Leaf" page of their book what they do that could cause a problem for them or others. And then on the"New Leaf" have them page write what they will do instead to change their life story or "turn over a new leaf".
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Free Happy New Year's Pop Out Card Craft for Kids
 What you will need: Card stock, Hi-Liter markers, paper glue, and scissors.
How to Make a New Year's Pop Out Card:
1. Print out the pattern onto card stock. Cut around the edges of the card and fold it in half and unfold. (Printing Problems?)
2. Color the smiley faces and then cut them out using an Exacto knife (Adults only). Cut around the outside of the smiley faces in the middle of the card leaving them connected between the tiny separating lines.
3. Fold the card in half again while pushing in on the smiley faces from the outside folded edge of the card. This will make the smiley faces pop out inside the card. Flatten out the folded card.
4. Glue the card to another piece of colorful card stock but do not glue where the smiley faces are.
5. To finish decorate the outside of the card with smiley face stickers or anything else you would like to use.
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New Year's 2013
Calendar with Quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Each month contains a different quote by Benjamin Franklin. Children color the pictures and staples the pages together.
 Jan. - An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Feb. - Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended. Benjamine Franklin
March - Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good one. Benjamin Franklin
April - Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
May - As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin
June - By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
July - Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin
Aug. - Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin
Sept. - Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin
Oct. - He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Benjamin Franklin
Nov. - How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin
Dec. - It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Benjamin Franklin
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All Things New - New Year's Crafts
The following crafts are available on The Resource Room and go with the lesson "All Things New".
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| God Renews Us Day by Day Bible Color Sheet |
Renewed Day by Day, 2 Corn. 4:16 Calendar Craft |
He Makes Us Brand New, Through and Through Color Sheet |
New Year's 2013
Calendar of Scriptures
 This craft is available toThis craft is available to members only .
Comments about
this craft from subscribers:
I used the
calendar for a class project. Since I have preschoolers the picture
was a little hard for them to color but it still worked out well.
The kids placed birthday stickers on the birthdays of each class
member and after the calendar was completed they took it home. I
really like mine too! Helps me keep up with their birthdays. Pat
Vines
My 4-6th graders loved the Scripture Calendar. In fact, we
have one hanging in the classroom, as well as the ones the kids
took home. This was a great craft idea for starting off the new
year.
Sandy Wilson
The kids had a great time coloring them and putting them
together. They each decided to include there own birthdays on the
calendars (to make it a bit more personal). They also got to decorate
them anyway they wanted to. Some fancy and some just plain. It was
there calendar that they could do whatever they wanted with it.
Afterwards we made a cover for our calendars. I really enjoy homemade
calendars and I was so glad to see I wasn't the only one. Even my
youngest daughter begged me to make her very own just for her room.
At first I thought of letting them do a page a month but decided
to have them do them all at once and make it into a book. We had
great fun making them. I put two holes on top of the page and they
tied a string on them to keep them together. They turned out great.
Each one created just for them. Love Always, Jeanie
I work with children from ages 2 to 5th Grade. I have used several
of the crafts in all of my classes. One project that we have used
several times now was the Lion and Lamb 2003 Poster and the 2003
Calendar of Scripture and Wise Sayings. I took a 12 x 18 sheet of
construction paper and stapled the calendars on the right side of
the paper and then I made the numbers smaller and the Lion and the
Lamb and glued them on the left side beside the calendar. In my
second grade class we had the children write down everyone's birthday
on their own calendar. The children have really loved the crafts
that I have gotten from your web site and they are so so so much
better then what they write in books. Thank you to you and your
daughter for all the hard work you have done. This has been the
best money I have sent. Thank You Peggy
Thank you for the 2005 Scripture Calendar. I used it for my Sunday School class the first Sunday of 2005. The kids loved having their own calendar. I gave each of them the foam cutouts of different religious shapes, seasonal shapes, etc. to decorate each month’s page. We went through the entire year and filled in each classmates birthday as well as other important events at our church. That was a craft that they can enjoy all year long. I love your page! It is great!
Melissa, New Liberty
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New Year's 2013 Folded Desk Calendar Craft
 This craft can be used any time of the year and would make great Christmas gifts. The Bible verse, "In thy name shall they rejoice all the day" is printed at the bottom of the calendar stand.
What you will need: Card stock (Heavy Paper), scissors, and colored pencils or highlighter markers.
How to make:
1. Print out calendar pages and cut them apart. (A pattern for the calendar pages is available to members.)
2. Cut card stock 4 1/4" wide by 10" and fold it into a triangle shape as shown in the picture. (A pattern is available to members.) Glue the triangle shape together.
3. Draw pictures to glue to the top of the calendar or use stickers, or use pictures from other sources.
4. Glue the calendar pages to the triangle shape.
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New Year Baby Card Craft
 Celebrate
the New Year with Fun Crafts - Make this cute New Years baby. All
you need is paper and pretty confetti.
What
you will need: Card stock (heavy paper), crayons, colored pencils,
or markers, clear drying glue, and confetti. You can buy confetti
at party shops for less than $2.00.
How to make:
1.
Print out the picture on to card stock and write the new year date on the balloon. (Printing Problems?)
2. Color the picture.
3.
Spread a clear drying glue in the areas you want confetti. Sprinkle
confetti over the glue. Place the bigger pieces of confetti to make
it looked spread out evenly over the picture. Put more on the bottom
of the picture so that it looks like it has fallen to the floor.
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Lion
and Lamb New Year's Poster
 The lion and the lamb
lying down next to each in this poster represent the wish for peace
in the coming year.
What
you will need: Poster board, card stock, crayons, or markers and
scissors.
How to make:
1.Draw
the numbers for the current year onto card stock making each number as
big as one piece of card stock. Outline them with a black marker and
color the inside. Cut them out and glue them on a piece of poster board.
2.
Draw a picture of a lamb and a lion lying next to each, color them,
and cut them out. Glue them onto the tops of the numbers.
A
pattern for this craft available to members
of Danielle's Place. Click here to print out the numbers,
lamb, and lion patterns.
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New
Year Party Hats
 These hats can be used as a craft at your New Years Party or you
can print the pattern out smaller and use them on your table as place
setting. Just print the name of each person who attends your party
on the back of the hat.
What
you will need: Bright colors of card stock, New Years confetti, glue or tape, glitter
paints, and scissors.
How to Make New Year's Party Hats:
1.
Roll your paper into a cone shape. Cut off the extras paper at the
bottom of the cone shape to make it rounded. Use your first hat as
a pattern to cut out more hats from different colors of paper.
2.
Cut out pretty shapes to glue onto the top of the hats or use ribbon
and other decorative objects.
3.
Glue the hats together and then glue on sequins or use glitter paint
to decorate them.
Patterns for this craft are available to members of Danielle's Place.
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New
Year Piñata Craft For a New Year's Party
 What
you will need: Large brown grocery bag, silver spray paint or
other shiny paint, gold and silver ribbon, string, markers, tape,
and things to put in the pinata.
How to make a New Year's Pinata:
1. Paint
or spray paint a large grocery bag with gold or silver paint.
Let it dry.
2. Print
out he Happy
New Year! pattern, cut it out, and color it.
3. Glue
the pattern onto the front of the bag.
4. Tape
gold and silver ribbon to the bottom of the bag so that it hangs
down.
5. Fill
the bag with goodies.
6. Tie
the top of the bag closed. Punch a hole in the top and tie a string
to the bag through the hole so that the piñata can be hung up.
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