Arts & Crafts
Waiting For Wings Paper Plate Butterfly Puppet
Supplies needed:
- Two paper plates
- Scissors
- Tape (colored tape looks really nice but is not necessary)
- Paint,
markers or crayons
- Pipe cleaner
- Hole punch
- googly eyes, glue (optional)
Directions:
- Fold a paper plate in half (fold it so that the back side of
the plate is touching itself).
- Using another paper plate, cut out a strip of the plate from
the middle (discard the middle strip).
- Tape or staple each of the
half-round pieces you just cut onto the folded plate. Position them
so that the eating surfaces of the plates are facing each other. Tape
(or staple) along the round edges only.
(This will form two pockets
where you will later put your fingers and control the puppet.)
- Draw
a butterfly on your puppet. Punch two holes towards the top for the
antennae, and loop a pipe cleaner through the holes (for the antennae).
Optional:
- Glue on googly eyes.
Read:
- Waiting For Wings by Lois Ehlert
- The Butterfly Kiss by Marcial Boo
- Velma Gratch & the Way Cool
Butterfly byAlan Madison
- Butterfly Butterfly: a Book of Colors by Petr
Horacek
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The Very Hungry Paperchain Caterpillar
Supplies needed:
- Construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Markers or crayons
- Optional: string (to make a puppet)
Directions:
- Cut out 13 strips of paper that are 1 ” by 6 ”, and
one that is 4 ” square.
- Form the next paper strip into a circle
connected to the first loop.
- Continue until all 13 circles are connected,
making a chain. Each loop is a segment of your caterpillar.
- Cut a circle
from the paper square to make a head for the caterpillar.
- Using a marker
or crayons, add some simple eyes.
Fun Fact: Caterpillar eyes can only detect light vs. dark.
- Glue on two tiny triangular jaws (mandibles).
Fun Fact: Caterpillars use these to eat leaves.
- Glue the head to the
caterpillar.
Optional:
- Make a nice, tasty leaf for your caterpillar to eat and rest
on.
- Tie a string to your caterpillar’s head and another one to
the other end so you can use it as a puppet
Read:
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- I’m a caterpillar by
Jean Marzollo
- The Crunching munching caterpillar by Sheridan Cain
- The Caterpillow
fight by Sam McBratney
- The Caterpillar dance by Will Grace
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The Grouchy Ladybug
Crown
Supplies:
- red and black construction paper
- 2 pipe cleaners (we used black)
- pencil
- scissors
- tape
- glue
Directions:
- Cut out 4 hearts from black or red construction paper (that’s
what we’ll put at the top of the pipecleaners).
- Cut 2 or 3 strips
of red construction paper about 4” wide
and as long as you can make them or tape the pieces end to end to
make a really long piece.
- Wrap around head to measure how long you need and trim off the
excess
- Cut circles out of black construction paper.
- Wrap the pipecleaner around a pencil to make it curly.
- Straighten about 1/2 inch of the top and bottom of the spring
(so it’s easier to do the taping).
- Repeat with the other pipecleaner.
- Tape a heart onto the top of each pipecleaner. Tape two hears
to each side of both pipecleaners (to sandwich the pipecleaner in
between the hearts).
- Tape both pipecleaners to the long piece of construction
paper so they either sit at the front of the head or the sides of
the head
- Tape the construction paper ends together to form a crown
Read:
- The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
- Little buggy by Kevin O’Malley
- Look out ladybug by Roberta
Mathieson & Sally Crabtree
- Ten little ladybugs by Melanie Gerth
- Bubba and Trixie by Lisa Campbell
Ernst
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Bumblebee Paper Roll
Supplies:
Directions:
- Color and cut out the template pieces.
- Glue the large rectangular piece on first to cover the tube.
- Bend the tabs on the face and glue onto the end of the tube.
- Glue on the stripes, stinger, wings and antennas.
