Crafts: Wonder Woman Paper Plate Shield

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Since we starting watch the 1960s Batman Television series, our children have really become interested in superheroes like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Because of this new found love of superheros our daughter requested a Wonder Woman themed birthday party this year so I started thinking about what crafts our children could create to help decorate the house.

We made these Wonder Woman inspired shields with paper plates, paint, and a some clip art from the Internet. 

Materials

• Paper plates
• Red paint
• Blue paint
• Paintbrushes
• Clip art
• Glue sticks 

Please note this craft will take a while longer due to waiting for the paint to dry in between steps. 

Steps 

1. Gather all your materials.

2. Paint the paper plate red and allow it to dry.

3. Paint a circle of blue on the paper plate. Allow the paint to dry.

4. Print out yellow stars or print out black and white stars and color them in.

5. Print out the Wonder Woman logo and color.

6. Glue on your stars and Wonder Woman logo.

7. Use your shield to defend against evil!

Looking for more crafts?

We made Wonder Woman Paper Bag Puppets and lots of other fun crafts that used paper plates like this one. Be sure to check out our Christmas ornaments, paper plate pigs, and paper plate chicks.

Crafts: Paper Bag Goat Puppet

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Our children love creating puppets, so we made our own paper bag goat puppets recently.

Materials 

• Brown paper lunch bags
• Construction Paper
• Scissors
• Glue Sticks 
• Markers or crayons 

Steps 

1. Gather all your materials. 

2. We glued all the pieces onto the face first and then glued it onto the bag. You could glue the face onto the bag and then complete the steps. Cut a goatee for your goat. Glue it onto the bottom of the face. 

3.  Glue on the eyes for your goat. 

4. Glue on the ears. (I also added a piece of tape to help secure them during puppet play.) 

5. Glue the goat's face onto the paper bag. 

6. After the glue dries, the puppet is all ready for your puppet show! 

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Crafts: St. Patrick's Day's Snakes

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

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One of the traditions surrounding Saint Patrick is that of his banishment of snakes from the island of Ireland during the 5^th century. If you are a myth buster, then you probably already know that no evidence of snakes ever living on Ireland in nature has been found. It is one of the few places in the world where snakes are not a native species.

This presents the perfect opportunity to teach my children the difference between legends and facts (as well as create a cute snake craft). There are still some wonderful stories surrounding Saint Patrick that are true and amazing. He was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland a slave. As he was tending to sheep, he turned to God, instead of the gods of the Druids, and prayed as many as a hundred times for protection. After escaping and returning to England, he studied for the priesthood and was eventually ordained a bishop. He would return to Ireland to preach the Gospel, often using shamrocks to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish.

Snake Craft

Materials

• Paper plate
• Scissors
• Markers or crayons
• Pencil
• String or yarn (if you choose to hang your completed project)

Steps

1. Gather all your materials.

2. Draw a snake on the paper plate.

3. Decorate the snake.

4. Cut out the snake.

All ready to be cut out!

5. Hang your snake or play with it.

Resources

National Geographic: Did Saint Patrick Really Drive Snakes Out of Ireland? 

Reptile Magazine: Did St. Patrick Really Banish Snakes from Ireland? 

Saint Patrick 

Original Image of Shamrock: © Wertaw | Dreamstime Stock Photos & Stock Free Images

Crafts: Christmas Ball Paper Plates

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Materials 

• Paper plates
• Tissue paper
• Glue 
• Construction paper
• Scissors 
• Tape 

Steps 

1. Gather all materials.

2. Either with the help of your children or before gathering everyone for the craft, cut circles out of the tissue paper.


3.  Glue the tissue paper circles onto the paper plates.

4.  Attach the top of the Christmas Ball to the back of the paper plate with glue or tape.

5. Hang in your house. My kids wanted them on the front door.

Resources

Crafty Morning's Paper Plate Christmas Ornament for Kids
Artsy Momma's Simple Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Shaped Ornament Craft 
Arty Crafty Kid's Paper Plate Baubles 

Fall Crafts: Scarecrow

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With the autumn weather, comes pumpkin picking, Halloween projects, and fall crafts. There are so many cute ideas on Pinterest and Facebook, it is sometimes easy to be overwhelmed by all the choices.  This year we made a simple paper plate scarecrow to decorate our front door.

Materials 

• paper plates
• yellow construction paper
• red construction paper
• white construction paper
• black construction paper
• orange construction paper 
• brown construction paper 
• markers or paint and paint brushes
• glue or glue sticks
• tape 
• scrapbook paper 
• scissors 

Steps 

1. Gather materials. (If your children are handy with scissors, have them help out.)

2. Color the paper plate.

3. Glue on the eyes, nose, and mouth.

4. Glue on the hair.

5. Glue on the hat.

6. Glue on the bow-tie.

Both my children enjoyed decorating and creating their own unique scarecrows. If you and your children make any, I would love to see them.  You can share them with me on Instagram or Facebook. Tag my page or use #momquesttoteach on Instagram. 

My son's scarecrow 

Resources 

Crafts for Preschooler's Scarecrow 

Original Scarecrow inspiration 

Crafty Morning's Popsicle Stick Scarecrow

No Time For Flash Card's Scarecrow 

Crafts: B is for Baker

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We first started talking about the concept: B is for Baker using SchoolhouseTeachers.com's Preschool Class ABC: What Will I Be?.   In the lesson on the Letter B, parents can introduce apple pie scented play dough to the children, share coloring pages, bake shortbread cookies, read books about baking, and practice math and writing skills.   In my Language Arts blog, I go into more detail about the ABC: What Will I Be? course.  To continue along with the baking idea, I created a Letter B craft for my children.

Materials 

• Letter B printed on paper 
• white construction paper
• black construction paper
• red construction paper
• coffee filter 
• markers, crayons, paints and paintbrushes 
• glue or glue sticks  

Steps 

1. Gather all materials.  If your children are using scissors, they can help cut out the shapes. 

Pieces needed to go with the letter B.

2. Color the letter B. (My son drew on his own face along with arms and legs when he was looking at my sample that I created.) 

 

3. Attach the hair with glue or glue sticks. 

4. Attach the chef's hat with glue or glue sticks.

5. Attach the eyes with glue or glue sticks. 

6. Attach the mustache with glue or glue sticks. 

7. Display your child's artwork. 

Resources 

• SchoolhouseTeachers.com's ABC: What Will I Be? 
• This Reading Mama's Learning the Alphabet: Letter B Printable Pack  (I used her letter B from the packet.  The packet contains lots of other useful activities.  We have done some of them from other letter packets.) 

Looking for more Letter Crafts? 

Our family has created some cute letter crafts using alligators, sheep, and construction as inspiration.