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Paper-Plate Angel - Crafts - HighlightsKids.com. Paper Doll Centerpiece Craft: Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids. Paper plate puppets craft at Lakeshore Learning. Clothespin Animal Magnet Craft: Classic Crafts and Animal Crafts for Kids. Ages school-age These adorable little animals are so easy to make and they look cute as a button while holding your child's artwork or notes! For more ideas, be sure to visit our other classic kids' crafts, animal-themed crafts and our main crafts page.

Download Clothespin Animal Magnets Template by Amanda Formaro What you'll need Wooden clothespins Craft foam: yellow, white, black, orange, light pink and pink 6 small wiggle eyes Small black pom-pom (lamb tail) ½" piece of fuzzy orange chenille (duck hair) 3" piece of pink skinny chenille Toothpick Black pen White craft glue Scissors Pattern Helpful Tip: Craft foam can be purchased in a variety of ways. How to make it Flatten the coffee filter and place it on a plate or newspaper, the paint and water will soak through. Paper Dolls for Any Lesson. Kids Crafts - Juice Box Dolls - Classic, Camp & Summer Craft Ideas. MaryAnn F. Kohl, process art and treasures of childhood. Enhancing Literacy Through Process Art This I know: If you want to hold the attention of a child, read a book out loud to him. If you want to see a child become easily and deeply involved in creativity, give him crayons and paper for free drawing.

We know these truths to be self-evident, for we’ve seen and done them so many times we can’t begin to count them! Books and art have always been powerful tools for motivating, subduing, intriguing, and delighting children. Indeed, it is proven through research that success in reading is linked to early experiences reading-aloud to children and reading aloud as often as possible. Because picture books are the center of a young child’s step into literacy, following up with easy art ideas that center on the illustrator’s style or technique is a natural progression requiring no great expertise on anyone’s part.

Follow-up the reading time with an incredibly easy and enjoyable art activity: Simply draw on large blank paper with a purple crayon! Circle of Friends. Print This Page Circle of Friends Our paper doll friends are a great way to teach about diversity and tolerance. You need: Instructions: Print clothes and hair for nine friends. Cut out pieces and glue them to "Friends" Blanks. We turned them upside down for this project so there is no black outline. Draw on faces. *Note: Pattern provided for clothes is sized to print with Internet Explorer. . ©2010 MakingFriends.com Inc. Friend Place Settings. Print This Page Friend Place Settings A great project to help pass the time before your holiday guests arrive. You need: Friends Bases for Friends Glue Stick Tacky Glue Photo Paper Scrap Instructions: Make a Friend.

. ©2010 MakingFriends.com, Inc. Cardboard Tube Pig: The Farm Series. Last week I showed you the first in the farm series, this cute cardboard tube chicken. Before that you met her cardboard tube chicks. There are more friends from the farm; such as these cardboard tube lambs and these cardboard tube bunnies. Today I’ll show you how to make this totally adorable cardboard tube pig!

Don’t you just want to hug him? :) Pigs are one of the best animals to make into a craft. Cardboard Tube Pigprintable version Cardboard tube, cut to about 2″ Acrylic paint: pink and darker pink Pink button 2 pink chenille stems 1 skinny pink chenille stem Scissors White craft glue or glue gun Black Sharpie marker Paint the cardboard tube inside and out with pink paint and set aside to dry. Glue pink button to the cardboard tube for the nose. From both regular pink chenille stems, first cut off 1 1/2″ from each. Cut the skinny chenille stem in half, coil one half around the handle end of a paintbrush to create the curly tail. Stay tunes for more cardboard tube farm animals! Pilgrim-clay-potbig.jpg (200×235)