TREES
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Take a small tube and make two downward slits across from one another at the top of the tube. |
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Then take a green paper plate and cut it in half. |
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Let your child place small stickers of birds or apples on the plate half. |
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Show your child how to place the plate half in the slits on the tube, creating a green tree with a brown trunk. |
Variation: Give your child half of a white paper plate and let him color the top of his tree however, he wishes.
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BINOCULARS
You probably made these when you were young. |
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Take two tubes and tape them together. |
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Have your child hold them up to her eyes to look through. |
Variation: For colored glasses, attach small squares of colored cellophane paper over the tube ends, before taping them together. |
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BRACELETS
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Cut a one inch section of a cardboard tube for your child. |
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Set out some marking pens and let your child decorate his bracelet, however he wishes. |
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If the bracelet is hard for your child to slip on his hand, just cut one side in half, allowing it to expand enough to slip on. |
Variation: Let your child spread glue on the bracelet and then sprinkle on some glitter. |
Variation: Spread glue on the bracelet then use small pieces of yarn to make designs.
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NAPKIN HOLDER RINGS
These are made just like the activity above. Paper towel tubes work best for this project.
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TALKING PUPPET
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Place a tube with one end down on a paper plate. |
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Draw around the tube with a pencil. |
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Now cut out the circle on the paper plate. |
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Give the plate with the hole (mouth) on it, and some marking pens or crayons to your child. |
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Have your child draw two eyes, a nose and some hair on their plate to create a face with a hole for a mouth. |
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Take the plate and turn it over and attach the tube with some tape. |
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Show your child how to talk in the other end of the tube, to make his plate puppet talk.
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BIRD PUPPET STAGE
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Take a clean toilet tissue and cut out a hole in the top half of the tube. |
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Have your child draw some green leaves around the hole. |
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This tube is now a tree with a bird (or owl) living in a large hole in the tree; |
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Give the tree to your child and show them how to stick their finger up from the bottom of the tube and bend out of the hole. |
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Add eyes and a beak to your child’s finger if you wish with a black marking pen. |
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Encourage your child to talk to and for the bird in the tree. |
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WINDSOCK
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Have your child glue the tops of tissue paper strips or ribbons to the inside of a small tube. |
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Next, let her decorate the tube however she wants, with markers, crayons, stickers, or pieces of cut tissue paper. |
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When she is finished, punch two holes at the top of the windsock and thread it with string or yarn. |
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Tie the yarn together and help your child hang it on a tree or pole outside. |
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Children also enjoy running around pulling these windsocks, watching the streamers fly.
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FIRECRACKER
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Give your child a small tube and a piece of red paper cut to fit around it. |
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Have him glue the paper to the tube. |
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Then give him 4-10 star stickers to attach to the red paper. |
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Next, fold up a small piece of aluminum foil and cut it into ¼” strips. |
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Wrap the strips around the end of a straw and tape them in place. |
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Have your child insert the straw into the tube and show him how to move the sparkler up and down. |
| Variation: Red, yellow or orange tissue paper strips could also be used for the sparkler. |
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