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Amazing Craft Ideas
Easy-to-follow classroom projects to inspire your students
Be a Wild Thing
Imagination reigns in Maurice Sendak's classic book, Where the Wild Things Are. Help students create Wild Thing costumes and Wild Thing masks, then see what creative stories they come up with during imaginative play. Don’t forget to practice your rawrrrs!Watch Instructor magazine's resident crafter Jim Noonan demonstrate this craft:
Clifford's Party Hats
On February 14, 2013, Clifford the Big Red Dog will celebrate his 50th birthday! Join in the fun by creating these festive party hats with your class. Just download the templates, print, and create. Watch Instructor magazine's resident crafter Jim Noonan demonstrate this craft:"Snowy Day" Shape Collage
Use scrap paper to create beautiful landscapes like those in Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day. Students will practice working with shapes and learn the concepts of foreground, middle ground, and background.Watch Instructor magazine's resident crafter Jim Noonan demonstrate this craft:
Six-Pack Snowflakes
Here’s a winter craft project with a green twist. Have kids collect their family’s plastic six-pack rings. Rather than ending up in a landfill, they’ll become larger-than-life snowflakes!Watch Instructor magazine's resident crafter Jim Noonan demonstrate this craft:
“Stained-Glass” Mobile
Use up old crayons, create a beautiful classroom decoration, and teach a lesson on the science of melting in this fun project.Watch Instructor magazine's resident crafter Jim Noonan demonstrate this craft:
Potpourri Science
Kids will love transforming discarded orange peels and spices into potpourri. Along the way, they’ll learn about dehydration, rehydration, and evaporation. They’ll also create a festive gift to bring home.Watch Instructor magazine's resident crafter Jim Noonan demonstrate this craft:
Monster Bookmarks
Art
and geometry come together with these merry monster bookmarks. All you
need is some sturdy paper, scissors, glue, and your students’
imaginations. Find easy, step-by-step instructions for this and other
unique and fun paper crafts at scholastic.com/kidscissors.Put on a Play
These puppets are easy to create: Collect images of characters from your favorite books (or have kids draw their own!). Add pipe cleaners to form the bodies, then attach to craft sticks with classroom glue or glue dots. Pass them out, along with some favorite fables and fairy tales. They can improvise or write their own dialogue, then act out dramas in pairs or small groups.Colorful Shape Patterns
What you’ll need:Construction paper (in five colors)
Paper-folding template, available for download
Scissors
Ruler
Glue stick
Cardboard (for backing)
1 Before class, cut construction paper into 1½"-wide strips. Have students fold and crease the strips to form triangles, squares, and trapezoids. For folding suggestions, download the template.
2 Students should cut their shapes out and sort
them by shape and/or color. Have them choose one as the “starter shape.”
They can experiment with building out from it—what kinds of patterns
can they make?
3 Once students have chosen a design, have them glue down the starter shape on cardboard backing.
4 They should continue to glue their design from the center outward. When finished, display or send home!
4 They should continue to glue their design from the center outward. When finished, display or send home!
“I Feel . . .” Origami Boxes
What
makes students feel brave, or curious, or wise? Give them prompts like
“I feel curious when . . .” and prepare to be amazed at what they
write—and later share with their classmates. To start, download our free
templates. After kids have written on them, help put them together with
just a few folds and some cellophane tape.
Use these templates in your classroom. Click here.
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