The year end holiday is here. Due to the current pandemic, we won’t be travelling much hence we will need a lot of ideas to keep our kids occupied. I’ve already stocked up lots of paper plates, coloured paper and paint at home for us to spend time making fun art and crafts together.
For today, Ayden would like to share how he made a cheerful SUN from a paper plate. Let’s watch this tutorial video to see how this simple and fun craft is done:
We came across a nice paper plate shark craft by Cindy and her son Trevor from My Creative Life. Cindy uses paper plates, coloured card stocks and googly eyes but we don’t have card stock and googly eyes in hand so we improvised and used only paper plates and colored craft foams instead.
Paper Plate Shark
Paint a paper plate grey.
Paint half of the second paper plate black.
Cut small triangles from the other half of the paper plate.
Paste those small triangles onto the black area and cut.
Cut triangles from grey craft foams, eyes from white and black foams and paste onto the painted paper plate.
Ever tried painting with your toddlers? Remember the mess they can create? How often do they tear the paper when they kept on painting on the same spot and that spot became soggy and weak? When doing a paint project with your toddlers, it’s good to use paper plates instead of drawing paper as paper plate is much thicker to prevent from tear resulting from too much handling.
This chubby bee is very easy to do and looks so cute, all kids will love it! You need to paint the back of one paper plate yellow. And another paper plate black. * Cut four stripes of black craft foam and paste onto the yellow paper plate.
* Cut the black paper plate into half and paste it at the back of the yellow plate as wings.
* Use pipe cleaner as the antennae and sting.
* Use googly eyes or stone as the eyes and you’re done!
This is the basic of all paper plate crafts. The simplest to do. Use a craft scissors to cut out a small triangle. You may also use normal scissors if you do not have any craft scissors. Stick the small triangle to form a tail. Now here is the tedious part. I use a craft punch and punch out a thousand ‘hearts’ from old magazine pages and get Ethan to do the pasting. Half an hour later, he is still pasting! LOL! You may opt to just color the fish instead. Use a button, stone or anything you wish for the eye and it’s done!
This is a little bit difficult for Ethan’s level. The only thing he managed to do is to hold down the centre section down until the glue dries up. Alternatively, you can just put a clothe peg to hold it down until it dries up.
On one paper plate, fold about a third of the plate over (have the bottom of the plate facing forward). This paper plate will be the owl’s head.
On the folded part, cut two short slits and fold them back up. (These will be the owl’s tufts – although they look like ears, they are only feathers. An owl’s ears are simple holes on the sides of the head).
Glue the center section down.
Glue or staple the head to another paper plate.
Cut another paper plate in half (these will be the wings).
Glue or staple the wings to the body at a slight angle.
Color in the owl, drawing feathers, wings, or other patterns.
I’m a little bit dissapointed with the result of my colouring as the owl looks way too UGLY! If you are going to try this, try colouring it better, just don’t end up like MINE! 😀
