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Crafts
Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft
Fish Paper Plate Craft
Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft
Bricolage: Collage
Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft
Coffee filter coloring is a lot of fun to do.
I find it relaxing to sit and watch the
colors flow together to make unique
patterns.
You can pick any colors you want to
make your butterfly. It's always fun to
explore different color combinations and
patterns.
Materials:
coffee filter
washable markers (we used crayola brand)
squirt bottle or small glass of water
pipecleaner
Note: You can complete this project using food colouring instead of washable markers.
However! I find this option to be very messy so would not do it with young children (if
they get food colouring on their clothing you won't be able to get it out). I would only
use this option with children over age 10 and even then would want a good amount of
supervision and old clothes to be worn.
Instructions:
Flatten out a coffee filter on a
plate.
Scribble the filter with washable
markers. (I try to just let the
kids do what they like... younger
children will be a bit more
random and that's ok)
Use a squirt bottle to spray the coffee filter 2 or 3 times.
I like to squirt right in the center of the filter and then sit and watch the water
wick the colours over the filter (this takes 4 or 5 minutes)
Young children will tend to over wet the filter... the project still works, but it
won't turn out quite as pretty (the colours tend to blend too much if you soak the
filter) To help prevent this, encourage them to squirt it just once in the middle
and watch for a bit for so they can see the process unfold. You can always add
more water later if it doesn't get wet all the way to the edge after 5 minutes or so.
Let dry (this takes about 1/2 an hour, but will take longer if the filter has been
soaked by an over-zealous crafter!)
Scrunch the coffee filter so you
can wrap a pipecleaner around
the center.
Twist the pipecleaner to hold the
coffee filter tightly. Leave the
ends of the pipecleaner about the
same length.
Trim the pipecleaner as you like (we took off about 2 inches) so the antenna are
the length you like and the pipecleaner ends are matching lengths.
Curl the pipecleaner (if you like) to make nice antenna
Fluff the wings a little bit to make a perfectly lovely little butterfly!
Fish Paper Plate Craft
This easy-to-make fish is a cute craft that is made from a
single paper plate.
Supplies needed:
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Paper plate
Scissors
Glue (or tape or a stapler)
Googly eyes (optional)
Crayons, paint or markers
Cut a wedge out of a paper plate. The
wedge will be the fish's tail; the hole
will be the fish's mouth.
Glue (or use tape or a stapler) the tail to the end of the
fish.
Glue a googly eye on the fish (glue on two eyes if you
want a flounder) or simply draw eye(s).
Color in the fish, drawing scales,
lips, and so on.
For an extra touch, make a tiny fish
(use the same instructions as above,
but start with a tiny circle made from
construction paper). Hang the tiny
fish from the large fish's mouth using
a short piece of thread.
Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft
NOTE: make this without the spout for a little Miss
Muffet version or with the spout for the Itsy Bitsy Spider
MATERIALS:
Cardboard tube (gift wrap or paper towel)
tinfoil
yarn
egg carton cup (the part that one egg goes into)
piece of cardboard or a 3 1/4 inch diskette (temporary use)
tape
glue
scissors
INSTRUCTIONS:
Cover the tube in tinfoil and tape on to make your spout
Make a yarn pom pom:
wrap yarn around the diskette or piece of cardboard about
30 times.
Slide off and tie in the center
snip loop ends
apply glue LIBERALLY all over the egg carton cup and drape the
yarn pom pom over top.
press down firmly
let dry completely
Make legs:
accordion fold two 1/2 inch x 8 inch strips of black
construction paper to make a leg.
tape it to the egg carton cup
do this 7 more times
OR just use pipe cleaners for the legs
Glue a face on your spider. We just used snippets of white paper
and a black marker
Tie a piece of wool that is 2 1/2 times the length of the water
spout onto the spider.
Put the wool through the spout. The child can pull the end of the
wool to make the spider climb up the OUTSIDE of the water spout
and let go of the wool so the spider falls down (when the rain
washes the spider out).
You can attach a craft stick or a straw to the end of the wool the
child holds onto as a handle if you like.