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PAPER BAG HATS
You will need medium sized paper bags for this activity.
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Help your children roll up the sides of a paper bag, leaving a rim and a 5” crown. |
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Give the bag hats to each child along with some glue and decorating materials. |
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Encourage your child to decorate their hat however they wish. |
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Decoration suggestions: Silk or dry flowers, ribbons, puzzle pieces, colored macaroni, cotton balls, feathers, etc. |
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Have a hat parade when everyone has finished their hats. |
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PAPER BAG WIND SOCK
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Give each child a paper bag. |
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Set out some marking pens and have children decorate their bags. |
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Then help your children to cut 10” slits from the bottom of their bag. Make slits about every 1-2 inches all the way around. |
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Next tie a yarn handle onto the top of each bag. |
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Show your children how they can make their wind socks fly in the breeze by running and holding the bag behind them.
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INDIAN VEST
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Cut a neck hole in the bottom of a large brown paper bag. |
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Next, cut two armholes in the sides. |
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Cut open the front of the bag from the bottom edge up to the neck hole. |
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Use crayons to decorate the bag with Indian symbols or other designs. |
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Cut a fringe along the bottom edge of the vest. |
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PUMPKIN PATCH
To make a paper bag pumpkin, you can use large grocery sized paper bags or you can use smaller bags.
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Set out the bags and some newspapers. |
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Cut large spread newspapers in two for easier handling. |
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Have your children open a sack and then wad up and stuff newspaper into the ball to fill it almost to the top. |
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Then, have children twist the top of the sack, to keep stuffing in and to create a stem. (You may need to help with the twisting) |
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Next, set out some orange and green paint, and some paint brushes. |
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Have your children paint their pumpkins orange and their pumpkin stems green.
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TREES AND BRANCHES
You will need four large brown large brown paper sacks for this project.
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First let your child help you tear two sacks into large pieces. |
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Next, crumble the pieces and staple them onto a wall or bulletin board to form a tree trunk. |
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Next, take one or two more sacks and cut them into 4” strips. |
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Twist the strips to form branches. |
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Use more sacks for more branches if needed. |
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Decorate your tree with seasonal leaves, fruit, snow or blossoms. |
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BIRD NEST
You will need small brown lunch sack for this activity.
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Give the sack to your child. |
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Have him open the sack and roll the sides all the way down. (You may need to help.) |
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Set out some glue along with some small yarn pieces, dried grasses, or small twigs. |
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Have your child glue the small nest materials around the edges of the nest and in the bottom of the nest.
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HAIR
This is a great cutting activity for your child. You will need a medium sized sack for this activity. One that could fit over your child’s head.
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Take the sack, turn it up-side down and cut out a rectangle in the front of the sack, starting at the bottom edge, then cutting up within 2-3” of the top. Then over 6” and then down again. |
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Now, for the hair. Have your child cut slits up the portion hanging down in the front for bangs. |
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Then you or your child cut 1” slits all the way around the rest of the sack for hair. |
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Set the sack over your child’s head to see bangs and long hair. Variations: If your child wants curly hair, she can roll each slit around a pencil. If he would like his hair shorter, he could cut the side and back slits shorter. |
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HANDLED BASKET
You will need a small (lunch sack size) sack for this basket.
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Lay the sack flat, then fold the sack in half length-wise. |
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Starting at the fold, use scissors to round the top of the sack, so that when opened it will be dome shaped. |
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Then drop your scissors down to the middle of the sack and from the fold cut a straight line, stopping one inch form the opposite edge. |
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Now go back up to the rounded edge at the top and drop down an inch and cut a one inch handle by following the curve of the outer edge and stopping where the straight cut ended. |
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When you open the sack, you should have a basket on the bottom and two curved handles on top. |
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Give the basket to your child and let him decorate the basket with marking pens, stickers, paper flowers, paper eggs; or however he wishes.
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BUNNY BASKET
You will need a small white sack for this basket.
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Again, lay the sack flat and then fold it in-half length-wise. |
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Then, in the middle of the fold, cut over about ½ inch. |
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Then, turn your scissors and cut a bunny ear up into the top of the sack. |
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When you bring the scissors back down to the bottom of the ear, again turn your scissors and cut straight over to the opposite edge of the paper. |
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When you open the sack up, you should have two sets of bunny ears sticking up. |
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Cut off the back pair of ears. |
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You now should have a white bunny basket with two ears sticking up. |
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Give your child marking pens and let him draw a bunny face on the front of the basket with eyes, nose, whiskers, and a mouth. |
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Glue a cotton ball on the back of the basket for a bunny tail if you wish |
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Let your children fill the basket with green Easter grass and use the basket as a table decoration. |
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