a faithful attempt

Here's an adorable summer craft if you're looking to keep your kiddos at home entertained, or maybe teach a summer camp. These were made by the after school kids at my school- their teachers often do cute crafts and art projects with them. Projects like these really help younger students strengthen their fine motor skills.

All you need is: coloured copy paper or cardstock or construction paper, scissors, glue stick, black markers.

Looks like they might have found instructions for the craft HERE. There is a template provided. 

These were made by Kindergarten students- so cute!

Here are some charming Spring themed paper crafts made by our after school care students. This group is Kindergarten and Grade 1 students, I believe. Their teachers always hang up their work and make beautiful displays that really enhance the hallways.

The flower craft below is made with colored photocopy paper, cupcake liners and little sticky jewels.

 

Grade 4-6 students created intricate cut paper wycinanki (pronounced Vee-chee-non-kee) incorporating an Easter or Spring theme. Wycinanki is a traditional paper-cutting craft from Poland, but it is also practised all over Eastern Europe. It dates from the mid-19th century where it was first made by shepherds who used their huge shearing scissors (as it was the only tools they had available) to create intricate patterns out of leather for decoration. A somewhat similar craft, scherenschnitte, is practised in Germany and Switzerland. 

Students simply folded a piece of photocopy paper (needs to be thin paper in order to cut easily) in half and drew half of a design. They could include objects like trees, chicks, bunnies, tulips, spring flowers, grass, etc. Cut carefully, unfold and voila, a delicate symmetrical design. They were carefully glued onto colored pastel paper.

This is a great lesson for the last couple of weeks before school lets out for Christmas vacation. It involves only paper, a hole punch, scissor and glue sticks. Very little prep but yet still results in gorgeous artwork- my kind of lesson for right before the holidays when we're all tired!

Do you decorate your classroom for the holidays?  These paper bag snowflakes make large and beautiful decorations to jazz up any winter holiday get together.

I led a crafting session with teachers at my school after school one day. These are going to be hung as decorations for our staff Christmas/Holiday party. There are loads of tutorials on YouTube and Instagram and Tiktok. You simply hot glue 8-9 paper bags together, cut out a design, then open up and glue the ends together. You can buy different colours and sizes of paper bags for more variety. I just bought plain brown ones from my local Dollarama. I also ordered white bags from an art catalog- the paper was different and worked less well than the brown ones for some reason. 

These would also be fun to make with a class. But, using 30 hot glue guns at once isn't fun, so you can also use glue sticks or white glue. But I would weight them with a heavy book for 30 minutes before cutting and unfolding. 

I have to still hot glue them closed and add string, but it was really fun making these with colleagues. 

I sent some photos to my friend (who's very artistic) who then made some with her relatives!