Holiday and Seasonal Crafts 

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Things That Fly and Wind Toys
 

Make Your Own Pinwheel Use this pattern to make a pinwheel
 

20 Kids* 20 Kites* 20 Minutes* These kites really fly

The Bumble Bee Kite  A simple, easy to make kite

Kites as an Educational Tool

The Sugar Glider Kite Your class can make these kites and learn about an interesting animal

Make a Gyrocopter Make a gyrocopter from paper

Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World

A Glider Pattern from NASA Print the pattern and instructions and make a glider. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which you can download at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat

A Glider to Print and Cut Out from Canon Just print, cut, and assemble

A Paper Plane from Canon Just print, and assemble

Twirly Bug This is a cute idea from Crayola

Make a Roto-Copter The printable pattern is here

Make a Hover Craft Toy This toy idea is from creativekidsathome.com

Wild Animal Windsock

Clay Pot Crafts

*Note - If you need to lessen the cost for any of these, you could use small foam cups in place of the pot, and foam balls for heads in place of wood balls.

It will not be as durable.

Preparing Clay Pots for Paint

I Love You Pot

Clay Pot Bumble Bee

Clay Pot Turkey A cute craft from Making Friends

Clay Pot Apple Craft

Terracotta Turtle

Happy Scarecrow Craft

Flower Pot Note Holder This is from christiancrafts.net

Decoupage Clay Flower Pot This is from familycorner.com

Clay Pot Nativity This is an easy way to make a nativity from three small clay pots

Clay Pot Winter Friends My class made a variation of these using 3 inch pots and styrofoam balls for the heads. We used old socks for the hat and scarf (use cuff part). In another class, we used foam cups instead of clay pots and attached the snowmen to styrofoam plates with snow glitter on them 

Clay Pot Butterfly

Clay Pot Bumble Bee

Clay Pot Gingerbread Pals

Winter Candle Holder This pot is painted but could also be decorated with foam

Fabulous Flower Pot

Liberty Bell

Turtle Critter

Ladybug, Dragonfly, or Bumblebee Puppet These cute puppet patterns are from JoAnn.com

Make a Foam Pencil Case

Foam Mouse Mask from Daniellesplace of Crafts. Scroll down.

Magnetic Foam Fish A brightly colored, magnetic, foam fish to remind kids of Jesus. *You could use foam or felt stick-on letters in place of cutting out letters

Fun Foam Bee Door Hanger

Butterfly Mobile

Make a Foam Visor We made these in a mission trip VBS. The kids loved them and they are easy to make.

Wearable Sombrero

Snowman Picture Frame

Sea Turtle

Turkey Door Hanger

Personalized Pencil Case

Write On, Rub Off Board (foam frame)

Book Worm Bookmarks

Pattern Station These patterns from Preschool Express will make great a start to many foam projects

Bug Patterns These are great patterns to use to make fun foam bugs

Paper Crafts

Hanging Around Cat Craft This cute craft is from Danielles Place

Make a Fan Help children cool off with this easy to make fan. Download and print two fan shapes from the link above. Cardstock is recommended. Glue a large craft stick between the two shapes and decorate with markers, crayons, pictures or Bible verses. Directions for a Paper Plate Fan are here

Paper Bag Hats A fun craft activity from Family Fun

Holiday Lanterns Make these red, white, and blue lanterns for a patriotic holiday. Make them in other colors for other special days

Paper Craft from Canon A variety of pre-colored printables to fold and display. There are dinosaurs, animals from different continents, an airport, and more

Fun Hawaiian Lei This is from kideas.com

Simple Origami Patterns

Sheep Craft Color the sheep and then attach cottonballs

Shaped Booklets Mini-booklets for children to make. Print the patterns and assemble

Make a No-Staple Book 

Red Barn Paper Model A very nice, two-part, easy to assemble barn and cow. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to run this off full size from the web

Balancing Bird  This is a fascinating toy to make and to learn about balance as well. I used card stock to make this

Fadeless Fish A colorful fish project. Foam could probably used instead of paper

Paper Fish Craft

Snake Dangler If you are studying snakes, here is an idea of something to hang from the ceiling

Crafttown   (in color) Build your own town. Everything you need to build a miniature town, including houses, vehicles, and railroad from Canon. Notice other pages at bottom of page

Make a Town  (Students can color these) Do your students need to make a community for Social Studies? Here is a program that you can download that has foldup patterns for houses, stores, etc. I downloaded this to a floppy disk

File Folder Village This template has a house pattern and a tree pattern. It  could be enlarged by printing one copy and enlarging on a copier. Print on cardstock

Box Templates There are a variety of box templates here. They could be used to hold candy, a gift, or other items. They also could be used as a base for other crafts. Make two pyramid boxes, glue together at the base and you will have a nice decoration to hang from the ceiling, etc.

Dinosaurs to Download, Cut, and Fold

Shields, Knights, and Heraldry Free software to download from Owl and Mouse Educational Software

Build Your Own Medieval Castle Free software to download from Owl and Mouse Educational Software

Make an Ocean Diorama Make this diorama using origami humpback whales or dolphins

Paper Lantern Decorate these and hang them around the room

Lion Mask

Animal Masks There is a cat, rabbit, frog, leopard, mouse, owl, panda, and a raccoon

Make Your Own Checkerboard (paper weaving)

Paper Bag Puppets and other paper puppets are on the Puppet Page

Make a Paper Cow

Make a Paper Pig

Make a Paper Sheep

Paper Popper

Paper Bag Fish

Pin Wheels

Snowman Bookmark

Make Your Own Flip Book Instructions and template for making your own flip book

Pattern Station These patterns from Preschool Express will make great a start to many projects

Paper Plate Crafts

Farm Animals from Paper Plates These activities are from Barnyard Banter site (15 animals). These are cute and are a clever use of paper plate crafts

  Lion Fan 

  Sun Fan 

Paper Plate Projects Mostly for preschool - K from makinglearningfun.com

Paper Plate Owl Requires 3 paper plates

Paper Plate Wind Twirler or Snake

Paper Plate Wolf Mask

Sea Turtle This could be  made from paper plates and foam. Card stock could be used instead of foam

May Basket This basket is made from two paper plates and makes a cheery gift for any time of year

Miscellaneous Crafts

Foam and Paper Pinwheel

ABC Crafts A variety of crafts listed here divided into categories

The Pattern Station A large variety of shapes at this site along with activities. These shapes could be used for shape books, bulletin boards, and a variety of seasonal and theme purposes

Commemorative Felt Quilt

Balloon People Scroll down for instructions and feet pattern link

Don't Bug Me Door Hanger You could use foam or foam stickers for bugs. This could also be decorated in a variety of other ways for different holidays, seasons or themes. Bug patterns are here

Bug Patterns These are great patterns to use to make fun foam bugs

Pipe Cleaner Spiders

Clothespin Butterfly This cute butterfly is from kideas.com

Dishcloth Angel

Directions for Nine Different Bows If you've ever wondered how different bows are made, check out this page

Craft Collections

DLTK Crafts for Kids  An excellent craft site with pictures of finished crafts and printable patterns 

The Project Room Arts and crafts projects you can do

Children's Crafts A variety of crafts from mycraftbook.com

Craft Recipes

Craft Supply Recipes Recipes for a variety of craft supplies

Homemade Sidewalk Chalk

Quick Drying Paper Mache

Colored Playdough I've used this recipe and it works well

Liquid Starch Fingerpaint

Make Your Own Bubble Solution

Make Your Own Face Paints

Chalkboard Paint You can use this paint on these Chalkboard Placemats

Cinnamon Ornaments These ornaments keep their wonderful cinnamon scent for several years. There are variations to these ornaments other places on the internet. We decorated them with small squeeze bottles of snow paint. It looked like they had frosting on them.

Making Potpourri is Easy

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