SEASONAL CRAFTS

Fall

Leaf Rubbing: Supplies: Leaves, crayons and or color chalk, 2 pieces of 9 x 12 manila paper. Instructions: Take several different kinds of leaves; arrange them upside down with leaf veins facing upward on one piece of paper.  Place the manila paper over the leaves and with the side of the crayon or colored chalk, rub back and forth till the impression of the leaf appears.

Winter

Paper plate snowman: Supplies: 1 large and 1 small paper plates, colored markers, black buttons, pencil, scissors, glue, stapler, 1  each 9 X 12 orange, white, and black construction paper.  Instructions:  Staple small paper plate to large paper plate.  Cut out a scarf shape out of white paper, a snowman top hat out of black construction paper. With the black paper cut two large circles for eyes and 6 smaller circles for a smile. Cut a large carrot shape for a nose for the snowman.  Glue buttons down the center of the large paper plate for buttons. Use markers to color and decorate scarf.  Glue into place.

Spring

Wind sock:  Supplies: Construction paper, crayons, crepe-paper, paper punch, yarn, glue.  Instructions: Cut crepe-paper into 1 inch strips for streamers.  With crayons, decorate and color one 9 x 12 inch construction paper.  Glue the streamers to the back, along the bottom.  Roll the construction paper into a cylinder.  Glue into place.  Punch 2 to 3 holes evenly spaced along the top.  Tie cord into the holes and hang.

Summer

Butterfly mobile: Supplies: Plastic straws, string, construction paper, glue, pipe cleaners, and 2 beads.  Instructions:  Cut four paper strips ½ inch wide from a 9 x 12 construction paper, long ways. Glue the ends of each strip to the middle, creating two loops.  Glue four looped strips together at the middles to make a butterfly.  Wrap a pipe cleaner around each butterfly for antennae.  Push beads onto the ends of the pipe cleaner.  Tie butterflies to a straw that is slightly cut at each end and in the middle.  From the middle of the straw, tie a string in the other direction to hang mobile.