More Crafts for Preschoolers

Discovery Bottles

Use any bottles you wish to (I used tea bottles). Add water beads from the Dollar Tree. Buy a tray of crayola water color paints and pop out the color you want and add it to about 1 1/2 cups of boiled water and allow to dissolve. Add to your bottle! Super glue the tops on!

Clear Hair Gel and pony beads from The Dollar Tree!

Blue Hand soap/water and sea animals! All from The Dollar Tree!

Clear Hair Gel/little bit of water and numbers all from The Dollar Tree!

Empty Gummy Vitamin Bottles make great discovery bottles and they are child proof!

Pasta Necklaces

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 Turtle

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

Train

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 Frog

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 Plate Sheep

Paper Plate Horse

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees

Airplane

Soaring away with this paper towel roll airplane is as easy as painting the paper towel roll and adding wings,tail and propeller! (click on picture for template)

Paper Plate Elephant

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

Paper Towel Roll Giraffe

• 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.

Paper Plate Cow

• 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.

Paper Plate Pig

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

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.

Five Green And Speckled Frogs

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 sang!

Sand Names

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

Shape Books

Water Bottle Pig

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.

Paper Towel Roll Frog

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 tongue to be
inserted.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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.

Mouse Paint

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.

Decorate Your Name!

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.

Dr. Suess Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Suess The Cat in the Hat

"T" is for Tractor

Name Caterpillar

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.