Children's Craft Projects

Corn Hand Craft

*Yellow Construction paper
*Green Construction paper
*Scissors
*Glue
*Cereal of choice

Have the children trace their hand (all fingers next to each other) on the yellow construction paper. Cut out the hand print. Cut out corn leaves from the green construction paper. Glue the yellow hand onto the green corn leaves. Then glue cereal onto the the hand.
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Apple Craft – Apple Puppets

What you need:
  • Colored Felt or Paper Apple Cut outs 
  • Card Board 
  • Colored Popsicle Sticks or Skewer sticks 
  • Permanent Markers 
  • Googly Eyes 
  • Glue 
  • Crayons or Paint (If not using Colored felt) 
  • Scissor 
Directions:
  • Cut out felt or paper apple cut outs 
  • (If using paper apple cut outs have children color the apples first.) 
  • glue felt or apple cut outs to cardboard. 
  • glue eyes on and draw face 
  • glue on sticks 

What it teaches:
This craft teaches children different emotions!
Green apple feels a little bitter....
Red apple is happy
Yellow apple is sad and crying....
Brown apple is mad


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Fall Tree

What you need:

• Construction paper (red, green, yellow, orange)
• Glue or double sided tape
• Bare tree print outs or you can draw your own
• Crayons

Directions:

  1. Print or draw your bare tree
  2. color grass and sky around the tree
  3. tear up construction paper in small pieces
  4. glue or tape on tree, grass and even falling from the tree



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Monster Bucket

What you need:

• Colored Felt
• Pipe Cleaner
• Googly eyes
• Hot Glue Gun or All purpose glue (craft section)
• Glue stick, or All purpose glue
• Large Soup Can
• Scissors

Directions:

  1. Glue felt onto can (if using glue gun, adult should do this step) and tack remaining felt to inside of can.
  2. Cut 2 small pieces of felt (this is to help hold pipe cleaner on). Hot Glue or All purpose Glue pipe cleaner inside of can. Use your small pieces of felt and glue over top of pipe cleaner.
  3. Cut different shapes/faces out of felt. Glue eyes on two pieces of felt.
  4. Glue felt onto felted can. (I usually clue the felted can and the back side of my cut out felt to make a double bond)



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Scarecrow

What you need:

  • 1 brown lunch bag
  • News paper
  • Construction Paper (orange, blue, red, black, pink and white)
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
  • Rafia
  • Black Marker
  • Glue

Directions:

  1. Stuff Bag with News paper
  2. Fold edges of news paper over and staple and then staple on rafia
  3. Cut out the hat using the orange construction paper, the hat band using the blue paper, 2 white circles and 2 small black circles for the eyes, a red triangle for the nose and two pink circles for the cheek.
  4. Glue the hat over the rafia, then glue the eyes, nose, and cheeks onto the bag
  5. Using the marker draw a smile from check to cheek  and put sixs little lines through out the smile
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Hand or Foot Print Ghost

What you need:

  • Black Construction Paper 
  • Washable White Paint or White construction Paper 
  • Scissor (if not using paint) 
  • Black Marker 
  • Glue (if not using paint) 


Directions:

  1. Put paint on foot or hand and press onto black construction paper. If not using paint trance hand or foot print on white construction paper
  2. If using paint let dry and go to Step 5.
  3. Cut out hand or foot print from white construction paper
  4. Glue print on black construction paper
  5. using your black marker draw on eyes and mouth



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