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SUN VISOR
- Take a plain paper plate and cut the middle section out.
- Now take the middle section and cut it in half.
- Staple the half circle to the plate rim, creating a visor with a headband.
- Let your children decorate their sun visors with marking pens.
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FISH
- Take a paper plate and cut out a small 3” pie shape.
- Place the pie shape tip under the edge of the plate (across from where it was cut out).
- Tape or staple the small pie section to the plate.
- The cut out section becomes the fish’s mouth and the pie shape become his tale.
- Children can decorate their fish with water colors, marking pens or crayons.
- Using a black marking pen create an eye above the fish’s mouth.
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SUN
- Give your child a paper plate.
- Have him paint or color his plate yellow.
- When dry, give him some 2” yellow strips of tissue paper to glue underneath the outer rim (making sun rays).
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SUNFLOWER
- Make a sun just like the above activity.
- Then give your child some glue and a glue brush and have her brush glue around in the middle of her plate.
- Finally, give her some clean coffee grounds to sprinkle over the wet glue.
- Use sunflower heads to decorate your child’s room or add a long green stem with leaves to make a tall sunflower decoration.
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UNDERWATER SCENE
- Give your child a paper plate and some crayons.
- Have her draw an underwater picture of fish, coral and sea plants.
- Then, take another paper plate and cut out the center area.
- Lay the plate flat and glue or tape some blue plastic wrap over the open area.
- Now turn this plate up-side-down and glue or staple it over your child’s sea picture.
Alternative: Have your child only draw fish on her plate, then let her glue on some green Easter grass, before putting the top plate on.
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OCTOPUSS
- Cut a paper plate in half.
- Next cut out eight white (or gray) 10” tissue paper strips.
- Have your child draw on two large black eyes and a mouth on the paper plate.
- Then have him glue on the eight paper legs. (Attach legs to bottom back of plate)
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TURTLE
- Give your child a paper plate and some crayons.
- Have her draw a colorful design onto the back of her plate.
- Then have her paint over her design with a diluted green paint. This will become the back of her green turtle.
- Now cut out five small egg shapes from green construction paper.
- Give the green shapes to your child and have her glue them onto her plate to create a head and four legs. (Attach head and legs to the back of the painted plate.
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WATERMELON SLICE
- Give your child a red paper plate.
- Have her paint the rim of her plate with green paint.
- When dry, have her spread some glue around the middle of her plate and then sprinkle on some (washed and dried) watermelon seeds.
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SPACE CRAFTS
- Set out some paper plates, wooden toothpicks, small buttons, small pieces of foil, small gears, plastic lids, wooden spools, plastic wire, or any other safe small objects.
- Also set out glue, tape, paper scraps, cardboard scraps, stickers, yarn, etc.
- Encourage your children to make imaginary space crafts.
Caution: Do not use any quarter sized items because they may be a choking hazard. |
