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Airplane

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Make this airplane with a paper towel roll (cut in half). Add wings, tail and propeller You can paint the paper towel roll with tempra to brighten it up.

Paper Plate Elephant

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Too cute! Paint a paper plate gray, add eyes, and trunk to create this adorable elephant.

All Aboard!

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Create this engine by cutting the train from card stock paper.
Use a  cardboard paper towel roll cut into small sections for the wheels. Paint the wheels black and color the train. Put the wheels on by cutting a slit in the wheel and attaching.

Paper Plate Turtle

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Make this easy turtle by cutting a paper
plate in half, painting green and adding feet and head (click
                                 on picture for
                                 template)

Popcorn Art

Have fun making
pictures, learning  letters,names,numbers!
What you
need:
•Popcorn
•paper (large or
small)
•Glue

What to do:

~write the letter, number or child's name on the paper in pencil. The child will then "trace" the letters etc in glue and  attach the popcorn.
~make fun pictures, draw with pencils then outline 
with popcorn

Sand Art

What you will  need:

• sand (any color will do)
• Card stock paper
• Elmer's glue
What to do:
~ write letters, names, numbers or draw picture with pencil, trace with glue then sprinkle with sand. (this is a wonderful way for children to "feel" the letters!
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Paper Towel Roll Frog
• Cut a paper towel roll in half and paint green.
• Using template (click on picture) trace legs onto green construction paper and glue to back of paper towel roll. Add eyes and cut a slit for the tounge to be inserted.

Paper Plate Cow

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• Cut out the center of a paper plate (for head) save scraps for legs, tail and ears.
• paint or draw spots on the body, legs, ears,tail and face. Add eyes. glue together.

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Paper Plate Frog

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Going Froggy for this cute paper plate frog! Paint a paper plate green and allow to dry. Paint both hands and 
press them down on white construction paper, dry and cut out. Cut out a tongue and curl from red construction paper. To attach tongue, cut a slit where the mouth should be, insert end of tongue and fasten in the back with tape. Add
eyes and nose!

Paper Towel Roll Giraffe

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• Cut a paper towel roll in half and paint yellow. Allow to dry and color sopts on with a brown marker.
• Cut a slit on the side to insert face, add ears.

Bubble Art

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What you need:
•Large Bowl
•Liquid dishwashing 
 detergent

•Food Coloring
•Straws
•White Paper
•Newspapers

What to do:
• Cover table with newspapers
• Pour 1/4 cup of liquid detergent into 
the bowl, then add a small amount of water and a few drops of food coloring.

• Blow into the bubbles with straw until 
the bubbles rise to the top.

• Gently lay the white paper over the 
 bubbles for a beautiful bubble print

Paper Plate Horse

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Water Bottle Pig

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Use a small water bottle to make this pig. Fill with pink sand or squirt pink paint into it, close and shake. Add eyes. Make legs, ears and tail from pink foam. Paint cap pink.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Paint 6 small paper plates green and one paper plate red. Attach using a hole puncher and yarn. Add legs made from brown
construction paper, googly eyes,pom pom for nose and a pipe cleaner for the antennaes. You can have children draw the food the caterpillar ate through (or use template in templates tab, have them color and cut out food and glue onto the caterpillar like shown in the picture below.

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Five Green And Speckled Frogs

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Cut out frogs, log, and pond from foam and
assemble like above. Have a child move a frog to the pool as the song is sung!

Pasta Neclaces

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How to dye pasta:
• 1/4 cup of alcohol
• 10 drops of food 
   coloring
• Zip loc bags



What to do:
• put alcohol and food coloring in bag then add pasta and shake until all the pasta is covered.
• let sit overnight (the longer you leave it, the darker it will become)
• Pour pasta out on a cookie sheet and spread out to dry overnight.
• use a bobby pin for the "needle" to thread the yarn through the pasta.

Paper Plate Pig

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What You Need:
• 2 paper plates per child
• pink construction paper
• pink paint
• googly eyes
• black marker


What To Do:
• cut out the center of one paper plate, paint it pink as well as the other paper plate.
• cut out legs,nose,ears and tail from pink construction paper
• glue together
• add eyes

The Lamb And The Butterfly

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Paint hand as shown to make the lamb and press onto light blue paper. Use two small pieces of tissue paper for the butterfly,
and green construction paper for the grass. Add a sun and googly eye.

Mouse Paint

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Draw 3 Three mice onto construction paper and let child decide what color they would like to mix (using the book as a reference).
Paint the first mouse one color then the second mouse another. Give the child a
small cup with the two colors in it and have them mix it together to make the third color (in the example above: Blue+Red=Purple) paint the last mouse the color the created.

Sand Names

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Assist child with writing their name in glue and add colored sand.

Shape Books

Decorate Your Name!

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Help your Students recognize their names and have a little fun with stickers, glitter and sequences! Trace the letters of their name onto paper using stencils and give them various art supplies to decorate with.

Name Caterpillar

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Cut out enough circles for each child in various colors. Write one letter of child's name on each  circle. Write the child's name on an index card as well. Give the circles
and  the index card to the child and allow them to spell their name out using the index card as a reference. Glue onto a large piece of construction paper, add  eyes, legs, mouth etc..to make a name caterpillar.
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Use shape stampers or sponges to make a shape/color/number book.