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!

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!

Earth Day Crafts

Earth Day will be here on April 22nd this year and we have a few craft ideas for you to try out with your little ones to celebrate the day! We are starting off our Earth Day Craft series with this colorful craft made from items found right outside!



Have students go out and collect a couple of 5 different items. This could be grass, flowers, leaves, sticks or whatever else they might find. You may want to pass out a few ziploc bags or brown lunch bags for them to carry their items in.

Next, each student should pick out their favorite color construction paper. With the five items that they chose, they can prepare their area to start their craft. They will also need glue.

Start by taking the glue and making the E. You will want this to be a decent amount of glue so that the items stick. With the item of your choice cover the glue E. Repeat this process with your other 4 items until the word EARTH is spelt out on the page.

You will want to give this craft some time to dry before sending them home with your students. We suggest keeping them overnight to ensure all glue has dried.