Footprint Penguin

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Black poster paint
• White poster paint
• Orange pastel
• 2 googly eyes
• White craft glue
• White cardboard paper

Exploding Volcano

Materials:

• Brown paper
• Black cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Cotton wool puffs
• Bronze glitter

Method:

1. Cut out a volcano shape from the brown paper and stick it onto the black card.
2. With the craft glue, draw lines down the volcano and coming out of the volcano.
3. Sprinkle the bronze glitter over the glue and shake off any of the excess glitter.
4. Once the glitter has dried, spread craft glue over the top of the volcano and stick on the cotton wool puffs as the smoke.

Button Christmas Tree

I used this craft when teaching the colour "green"

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Green cardboard paper
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Green buttons

Method:

1. From the green card, cut out a tree.
2. Let the child choose which buttons they would like to use as the tree's "leaves".
3. Use the craft glue to stick them on.

2 Peas in a Pod

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Green paper
• Green paint
• Scissors
• White cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Green pastels/crayons/kokies

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate green and leave to dry.
2. Cut the dry paper plate in half.
3. Cut out 2 circles from the green paper and stick them onto the top of the white card.
4. Glue one half of the paper plate at the bottom of the card, covering half of the circles.
5. Discard the other half of the plate.
6. Use the pastels to draw faces on the circles (peas)

Handprint Zebra

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Black poster paint
• White poster paint
• Black kokie
• Googly eye
• White craft glue
• Red cardboard paper

Foot Print Giraffe

Materials:

• Orange cardboard paper
• Scissors
• Brown poster paint
• Split pin
• 2 googly eyes
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Trace around the child's foot on the orange card and cut it out.
2. Cut out a long rectangle from the left over orange card.
3. Use the brown paint to paint blotches over the foot and rectangle.
4. When dried, use the split pin to join them together (see picture).
5. Use craft glue to stick on the 2 googly eyes.

Paper Plate Bunny Rabbit

2 year old

3 year old

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• Pink pastel
• Black pastel
• Pink pom-pom
• 2 cotton wool puffs
• White craft glue
• White cardboard paper
• Scissors
• 2 googly eyes
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Colour the inner circle of one of the paper plates pink.
2. Use the scissors to cut the paper plate in half.
3. On the other paper plate, use the craft glue to stick on the 2 googly eyes.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the pom-pom nose and 2 cotton wool puffs on either side of the nose.
5. Use the pink pastel to draw in a mouth.
6. From the white card, cut out a bow tie and colour it in.
7. Use the craft glue to stick the bow tie below the mouth.
8. Use the stapler to staple the ears to the face.