Sunflower Classroom Craft

 

What you will need: paper plate, glue, scissors, popsicle stick, green marker, green construction paper, yellow paint & lots and lots of sunflower seeds

1. Using the yellow paint, paint the frontside of the plate. Set it aside to dry.
2. With a green marker, color your entire popsicle stick  (front, back & don’t forget the sides)
3. Grab a pair of scissors and your green construction paper, Cut some leaves to attach to the popsicle stick.
4. Grab the glue, attach the leaves to the sides of the popsicle stick.
5. Once your plate is dry, cut 8 triangles out of the outer ring of the plate. This step creates the petals of the flower.
6. Glue the popsicle stick with the attached leaves to the back side (this is the side of the plate that is still white).
7. Grab 30 (give or take) sunflower seeds and your glue, glue each seed on to the center of the plate, space them apart evenly creating the center of the sunflower.

This is the perfect craft for a classroom picture! Take the kids outside in this beautiful fall weather and have them say smile big with their sunflowers!

Silly Little Turkey Classroom Craft

Items needed: Light and Dark Brown, Orange, Yellow, Red, White & Black Construction Paper, Feathers, Glue, Scissors

Now that fall has arrived, It’s time to start preparing for Thanksgiving crafts.

Why not start with this silly little turkey!

Gather all your items needed for this adorable little craft. First things first, grab your handy dandy scissors and your dark brown construction paper. You will be cutting a circle for the base of the turkey. We chose to do a medium size circle. Cut as large or as small as you want the the turkey to be.

Once you have finished cutting all of the base circles from the dark brown circles, grab your white Construction paper. This is going to be the paper used for the base of the eyes. Cut two large circles (not as large as the original circle that you used for the base of the turkey.) Just big enough that the small black circles can fit in the center of the base of the eye on the following step.

Using your light brown construction paper cut multiple strips to be crisscrossed and glued to the top of the turkey.

Now grab the black construction paper and cut two quarter size circles. These are the center of the eyes.

With the yellow construction paper cut a Medium size triangle. Large enough to cover most of the middle of the turkey, but smaller than the two eyes put next to one another.

Using the red construction paper, cut a bean shape. This is to be the turkeys wattle.

Using the orange paper cut two skinny strips to represent the turkeys legs.

Once you have all the pieces of the turkey cut out, lay them on the children’s desks  along with five colorful feathers and their glue. Then watch your silly little turkeys smile and laugh as they enjoy decorating their very own silly little turkeys!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Football Trees

October is coming to an end and the leaves are falling. It can only mean Fall is here and Football games too!! It’s time to transition your rooms so, why not have the children help with the decorations this year with these Festive Fall Football Trees!

Items needed: Construction paper, Silver Sharpie, Glue or glue sticks and Scissors

Pick out the colors you would like the children to work with. (Suggetions on colors to use: red, orange, yellow, for those who would like to add more colors add purple, blue and pink )

For the leaves: cut ovals in all the colors you would like the tree leaves to be, repeating this step as needed to aquire the amount of leaves needed for a full tree. Using the brown construction paper, cut out all of the footballs in an oval shape as well.

(You can have the little ones cut out the leaves and footballs or have them precut and ready to go to make craft time a breeze.)

For the trunk of the tree:  cut a rectangle with a wider trunk to give it the tree trunk look.

For the footballs: once the footballs have been cut out, use the silver shapie to add the lines of the threads on the football. (It’s best for the teachers to do this task due to it being a permanent marker and not a washable marker.)

Now that all the parts of the trees have been cut out and the footballs have been lined, use the glue or glue sticks to layer the leaves and footballs to the tree trunk creating a… Ready… set… hike…Football Tree.

Happy Football Fall Everyone!

Bug Juice

What you will need: plastic bugs or plastic spiders, brown construction paper, Punch bowl or fish bowl, ladel, PureFUN! Green Watermelon 100% Juice blend Concentrate, ice

(Note: if using spiders instead of bugs you can call the juice Creppy Crawly Juice and use PureFUN! Fruit Punch 100% Juice blend Concentrate for red juice instead of green)

• Once you have all of your items needed, make sure to wash the bugs and or spiders.
• Start with blending the PureFUN! juice according to the instructions on the bottle.
• Add blended PureFUN! juice and ice to the punch bowl
• Stick bugs/spiders in the juice and mix around with the ladel.
• Using the brown construction paper: cut a rectangle out and on each end of the rectangle change make it look rugged you can frey the ends or snip a few parts off. Once you have the rectangle the way you would like it, cut a strip for the post of the sign. Either write or print out the Bug juice label & tape it to your sign.
• Next step is to add the completed sign to the punch bowl or fish bowl where ever you desire.

Kids of all ages will enjoy this tasty juice!

Spooktacular Tissue Paper Black Cat Craft

Items you will need: paper plate, construction paper, tissue paper, glue, chenille stems, Crayola washable marker

Have the children cut out 2 triangles from the black construction paper for the ears, 1 circle from the pink construction paper for the nose, 1 arrow and 2 ovals with the white paper for the mouth and eyes.

Next the children will need to tear or cut pieces of tissue paper to glue to the front of the paper plate.

Once they have covered the front of the plate with the tissue paper thay can glue the eyes, nose, & mouth on top of the black tissue paper.

With a Crayola washable marker have the children color in the eyes of the cat with their favorite color.

Take the two grey chenille stems and have the children fold the chenille stems in half and then glue them onto the cats face on each side of the nose creating whiskers.

The ears are the last thing to add to complete the cat. Take the two triangles and glue them to the top back side of the plate.

We hope you have a Spooktacular time making your PUURRFECT Halloween craft!

Halloween Treat Bags

What you will need: gloves,assorted halloween candy, Ribbon or yarn, Spider ring

Quick and simple treat for kids to enjoy in the classroom!

Step one: Fill the glove with your candy of choice

Step two: Tie your ribbon or yarn

Step three: Add a spider ring to one of the filled fingers for decoration

WALA!! You have a halloween treat bag every child in your class will enjoy!

Jack the Jack O’Lantern

 

Jack O’ Lantern Fun & Easy Kids Craft!

First things first get all of your supplies here is a list of what you will need:

· Paper plates

· Glue

· Orange tissue paper

· Green,brown & black Construction paper

· Scissors

Step 1: Cut the orange tissue paper into squares

Step 2: Cut the brown construction paper into rectangles (for the stem)

Step 3: Cut the black construction paper into three triangles (for the eyes and nose of the Jack O’ Lantern) and then cut a smile (feel free to be creative with your smile/eye cut outs)

Step 4: Trace the children’s handprints on the green sheet of construction paper

Step 5: Cut the hand prints out (for the leaf)

Step 6: Have the children glue the orange squares of tissue paper onto the back side of the plate

Step 7: Have them glue the brown rectangle to the top left side of the pumpkin and then glue the green hand print on as the leaf of the pumpkin

It’s finally that time to add the finishing touches!!!

Step 8: Have the children glue the face to their pumpkins in their own creative way.

Don’t forget to have them sign their names to their pumpkins!

Hope everyone has as much fun making these Jack O’ Lanterns in their class as much as we did!