Top 3 Favorite Preschool Crafts

Paper Lantern

Supplies:

Construction paper: Various colors

Glue

Scissors

Hole puncher

Pipe cleaners

Decorative items: Streamers, pom poms, stickers, ribbon, etc.

Instructions:

Fold a piece of construction paper lengthwise.

From the folded edge cut slits from one side to the other. Be careful not to cut all the way to the edge.

Unfold the paper. In the opposite direction (the short side) glue or staple the top edges together and then the bottom edges together.

Cut a strip of construction paper to glue to the top and bottom edge of the lantern. You may cut it straight or get creative and cut it in a wavy line, etc.

Punch a hole on one side of the lantern’s top edge and then on the opposite side.

Place a pipe cleaner through the hole and fold at the edge and bend around to the other hole to form a handle.

Decorate your lantern by adding pom poms, stickers or ribbon to the top and bottom edges of your lantern. Use your imagination to create something unique.

Tips:

Use Fiskers shaped edge scissors to make more decorative slits.

Make several lanterns and hang on yarn or string and hang in a room.

Use two pipe cleaners or ribbons to make a more decorative handle to your lantern.

Thankful Hands Tree

Supplies:

Construction paper: fall leaves colors, grass, brown for tree trunk, and background color
Scissors
Glue
Permanent marker

Instructions:

1. Trace your child’s hand on construction paper using the colors for the leaves of the trees.

2. Cut out the hands.

3. Cut out a tree trunk from the brown construction paper. You can do this free hand or by tracing it from a template.

4. Cut out grass from green construction paper. You do not have to be exact. You can simply cut in waves to create hills or cut a long strip and then cut fringe on the long side of the paper.

5. Chose a piece of construction paper to be the background color such as blue or orange.

6. Glue the green grass to the bottom edge of your construction paper which you chose as a background.

7. Glue the tree trunk in the center of your background paper.

8. Now arrange the hands as leaves on the paper in a manner you desire.

9. Write something your child is thankful for on each hand you glue on or near the tree.