Paper Plate Bee #2

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Yellow poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Black pom-pom
• Googly eye
• 2 pipe cleaners
• White craft glue
• Cellotape
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate yellow and let dry.
2. With the black paint, draw stripes down the bee and let dry.
3. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eye.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the pom-pom as the bee's stinger.
5. Use the black kokie to draw on a mouth.
6. Twist the pipe cleaners into wing shapes and use the cellotape to stick them to the back of the plate.

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.

Paper Plate Clown

Age Group: 4 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Paper plate
• White cardboard paper
• Coloured cardboard paper
• 2 pom-poms
• Crayons
• Kokies
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Cut out a long triangular shape from the white cardboard and colour it in with different coloured crayons to make the clown's hat.
2. Trace your child's hands on the coloured cardboard and cut them out to create the clown's hair.
3. With a black kokie, draw on the clown's eyes.
4. With two different coloured kokies, draw rectangles around the eyes.
5. With a pink kokie, draw circles for cheeks and with a red kokie, draw a mouth.
6. Use craft glue to stick the hand prints to the back of the paper plate and the hat onto the front of the paper plate.
7. Use craft glue to stick a pom-pom on the top of the hat and another pom-pom for a nose.

Frozen (Movie) Party Craft Ideas

Olaf Footprint Gift Bag

Materials:

• Brown cardboard gift bag
• White poster paint
• Orange felt
• 2 googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Black kokie
• Pastels
• A foot!!

Method:

1. Paint your child's foot with the white poster paint and place it in the centre of the bag.
2. Wait for it to dry.
3. Use the black kokie to draw the outlines to 3 sections within the footprint for Olaf's body.
4. Draw eyebrows, a mouth and a tooth.
5. Use craft glue to stick on 2 googly eyes.
6. Cut out a small carrot shaped nose from the orange felt and stick it into place.
7. Use a blue pastel to colour in the mouth.
8. Use a brown pastel to draw in arms and hair.
9. Use a black pastel to draw in his "buttons".
10. Use the pastels to decorate the background.

Sven Reindeer Horn "Crown"

Materials:

• 1 A3 piece of brown foam
• Scissors
• Brown/copper glitter
• White craft glue
• Jewels/decorations
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Cut out 2 strips about 5 cm high from the foam.
2. Cut out 2 horns from the foam.
3. Spread craft glue over the antlers and generously sprinkle the glitter over the glue.
4. Shake off any excess glitter and wait for it to dry.
5. Use the craft glue to decorate the 2 strips of foam.
6. Staple the ends of the foam together, measure the child's head to make sure the band is not too big or too small.
7. Use craft glue to glue the antlers to the band.

Princess Elsa Crown

Materials:

• 1 A3 piece of white foam
• Silver glitter
• Blue glitter
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Variety of jewels/decorations
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Cut out a 5 cm high strip from the white foam for the head band.
2. From the rest of the foam, cut out the crown shape, making sure there is about 2 cm left on each side to staple the band to. 
3. Spread glue on the top outline of the crown and generously sprinkle on blue glitter.
4. Shake off any excess glitter.
5. Spread glue on the rest of the crown and generously sprinkle on the silver glitter.
6. Shake off any excess glitter.
7. Once dried, use the craft glue to stick on the decorations.
8. Staple the band to the ends of the crown, measure the child's head to make sure the band is not too big or too small.

Olaf Paper Bag

Materials:

• Brown paper bag
• White poster paint
• 2 googly eyes
• Brown kokie
• 3 brown pipe cleaners
• Orange felt
• Scissors
• Blue kokie
• White foam
• White craft glue
• 3 small black pom-poms
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Paint one side of the paper bag white.
2. Leave to dry.
3. Whilst drying, cut out a rectangle with curved corners out of the white foam for the tooth.
4. Bend one of the pipe cleaners in half and cut it to make 2 equal parts.
5. Bend one half around one of the full pipe cleaners to create a stick arm. Do this with the other 1 and a half pipe cleaners.
6. From the orange felt, cut out a carrot shaped nose.
7. Once the bag has dried, use the craft glue to stick on the two googly eyes, nose, and 3 pom-poms.
8. Use the brown kokie to draw in eyebrows.
9. Use the blue kokie to draw and colour in a mouth.
10. Use the craft glue to stick the tooth onto the mouth.
11. Use the cellotape to secure the arms onto each side of the paper bag.

Sven Paper Bag

Materials:

• Brown paper bag
• 4 beige fluffy pipe cleaners
• 2 googly eyes
• Brown felt
• Brown button
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Cellotape

Method:

1. From the brown felt, cut out an oval shape.
2. Use the craft glue to stick the oval shape (snout) onto the middle of the paper bag.
3. Use craft glue to stick the button onto the middle of the snout - you can always use a pom-pom instead of a button should you wish.
4. Use the craft glue to stick the 2 googly eyes into place.
5. Take 2 of the pipe cleaners and twist them together to make a cross shape. Do this with the other pair.
6. Cellotape the long end of the "cross" onto the inside  of the paper bag.
7. Bend the 3 other sections any way you wish to create antlers.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Recycled Water Bottle

Age Range: 6 years to 10 years
Estimated Time: Over 1 Hour
Messiness: High

Materials:

• Plastic water bottle
• Various shades of green tissue paper
• Red tissue paper
• Pipe cleaner
• Craft knife
• White craft glue
• Bostik glue
• Yellow cardboard paper
• White cardboard paper
• Green paper
• Small green pom-pom
• Pritt glue
• Scissors
• Green poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Yellow poster paint

Method:

1. Cut out 2 yellow circles for eyes (about 2cm across) and 2 green circles (about 1.5cm across).
2. Use Pritt glue to stick the green circles onto the bigger yellow circles.
3. Spread craft glue on the underneath of the bottle and about 1cm around the edge of the bottom of the bottle.
4. Stick pieces of red tissue paper onto the glue.
5. Use craft glue to stick the eyes onto the bottom of the bottle.
6. Use craft glue to stick the pom-pom on as the nose.
7. Spread craft glue over the rest of the bottle.
8. Stick on strips of tissue paper in the different shades of green.
9. Let dry.
10. Use the craft knife to poke a hole on the top of the caterpillar just where the red tissue paper ends.
11. Fold the pipe cleaner in half and push the fold through the hole as feelers.
12. To make the leaf, cut out a leaf shape from the white card.
13. Paint the entire cut-out green.
14. On one side of the leaf, paint over with yellow to create lime green. 
15. On the other side of the leaf, use a tiny bit of black paint to create the darker effect.
16. Cut out a "bite mark" on the edge of the leaf.
17. Use Bostik glue to stick the Caterpillar onto the leaf!

Cotton Wool Rain Cloud

Age Group: 2 years to 7 years

Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• String
• Cellotape
• Various sized blue pom-poms

Method:

1. Cut out a simple cloud shape from the white cardboard.
2. Spread a layer of white craft glue over the cloud and stick on the cotton wool balls.
3. Cellotape 3 long pieces of string onto the back of the cardboard.
4. Cellotape 3 different sized pom-poms onto each of the pieces of string to mimic raindrops

Pet Rock

Pet rocks are simple yet fun to make and have no design limitations!

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Rock
• Acrylic paint
• Googly eyes
• Pipe cleaners
• Pom-poms
• Any other decorative material

Method:

1. Make sure your rock is clean and dry.
2. Choose any colour or colours of acrylic paint to paint your rock.
3. Once dry, decorate in any way your imagination takes you!
4. If you want, add glitter to the wet paint to create a lovely shimmering effect.

Clothes Theme - Dinosaur Style!!

Dinosaurs are an absolute favourite for Christopher, the little 2.5 year old Slovakian boy I teach 3 times a week. To get him to do anything, I have to incorporate some sort of dinosaur into the mix!! (Please keep in mind that these designs were out of the head of a 2.5 year old!!)

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Poster paint
• Coloured cardboard paper
• White cardboard paper
• Big pom-pom
• 2 googly eyes
• Tissue paper cut into small squares
• Shredded tissue paper
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Pritt glue

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate any colour of your choice.
2. Whilst the paper plate is drying, cut out the dinosaur's arms and legs. Christopher wanted very BIG feet with 3 pointy toes and very small arms with 3 pointy fingers - sort of like a T-Rex. As he is still too small to cut out fine details, I did the cutting for him.
3. I then cut out the teeth. He wanted 4, big, sharp teeth for his dinosaur.
4. We then moved onto the clothing part of the lesson. I drew a beanie sort of hat and cut it out.
5. Christopher chose orange tissue paper for the bottom part of the beanie. He glued these small squares (which I had pre-cut) onto the card with normal Pritt glue.
6. He then chose the colour of the "wool" (shredded tissue paper) he wanted to use on the hat. This we stuck down with white craft glue.
7. He then chose the biggest pom-pom I had to glue onto the top of the hat - also with craft glue.
8. Once the paper plate was dry, we stuck everything into place with craft glue.
9. Lastly, we stuck on the googly eyes (also craft glue)

Age Group: 3 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• A variety of poster paints
• 4 A4 sheets of coloured cardboard paper
• White cardboard paper
• 3 big pom-poms
• 2 cupcake liners
• 2 large pieces of felt
• 1 pipe cleaner
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Method:

1. The theme for this lesson was "shoes" but Christopher, of course, insisted on making a dinosaur - so I decided to compromise and we made the dinosaur with shoes!
2. We started by painting the 2 paper plates in different colours and put them aside to dry.
3. We then painted 2 A4 cardboard sheets one colour and the other 2 another colour, as we used 1 sheet for each arm and each leg.
4. Whilst those were drying, Christopher chose 2 different coloured pieces of felt and I cut out a very simple shoe pattern. As Christopher had decided that his dinosaur needed very BIG feet, I had to cut out very BIG shoes.
5. We then cut a pipe cleaner in half and bent each half into a heart shape to resemble laces.
6. We stuck the "laces" onto the "shoes" with white craft glue - you have to hold the pipe cleaners in place whilst the glue dries (about 2 minutes), otherwise they will not stick.
7. I then used the black kokie to draw large dots onto each cupcake liner to make big eyes.
8. I cut out triangular teeth from the white card.
9. Once all was dry, we stuck it all together using white craft glue.
10. It was quite tricky sticking the cupcake liners down without squashing them flat by mistake! But after a few attempts, we managed.
11. Christopher chose where to put the feet and arms, and thus, we ended up with feet on the one side and arms on the other!

Ice-cream Stick Chameleon

This is great fun for older children (above 4 years old)

Age Group: 4 years to 10 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• 2 thin pipe cleaners
• 1 thick (preferably multi-coloured) pipe cleaner
• 2 googly eyes
• 3 pom-poms
• Ice-cream stick
• Bostik
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Twist the thin pipe cleaners around the ice-cream stick to make 4 legs.
2. Twist the thick pipe cleaner around your finger once to create a tongue.
3. Cellotape the tongue to the underneath of the ice-cream stick so that the cellotape is not visible.
4. Use the Bostik to stick on the googly eyes and pom-poms
5. You may have to play around with the angles of the legs to make the chameleon stand on its own!!

Sensory Rainbow

Below are two variants of a "sensory rainbow". The second one is made out of very different textured materials for each colour and the other is a little simpler.

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Crayons in rainbow colours
• Pom-poms
• Felt
• Ribbon
• Buttons
• White card (A4)

Method:

1. Draw the rainbow in the correct colour order.
2. Let the child choose what material he/she would like to stick onto each colour.
3. Make sure that the object they choose is the same as the colour of that stripe in the rainbow!

Age Group: 4 years to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Pink felt
• Purple pom-poms
• Blue pipe cleaner
• Green feathers
• Sandpaper coloured in yellow
• Orange tissue paper rolled into balls
• Red kokie

Method: 

1. Stick all the items in the correct colour order.
2. This is a brilliant activity for tactile stimulation!

Spiral Pasta Lion

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium


Materials:

• 1 paper plate
• Long pieces of spiral pasta (apparently called Fusilli Pasta)
• 2 googly eyes
• Small pink pom-pom
• Yellow paint
• White craft glue
• Black fine-liner or kokie

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate yellow and leave to dry
2. Once dried, stick the pieces of pasta individually onto the paper plate with craft glue
3. Glue on the googly eyes and pom-pom
4. Draw in the mouth