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GARDEN ROCK
What You Need: Rocks Red and Black Tempera Paint Brushes Clear coat spray What You Do: Children select rocks. Wash and dry rocks. Become scientists and discover how rock lies best. Paint rock red. Let the paint dry. When red paint is dry add black features of ladybug. Let dry. Apply spray to preserve.
Fire Truck Box Toy
Children can make these fire trucks to pretend to ride in or to use as a toy box. If you like, you can cut out the bottom of the box (before making the craft) and the children can enter the box, carry it, and walk around pretending to be a fire fighter. This is a messy craft. Work on newspaper and wear old clothes! Each fire truck takes one cardboard box and four paper plates. Supplies: A cardboard box Four paper plates Red and black paint 3 paint brushes Black, white, blue, and orange construction paper Scissors Glue Paint a cardboard box red and let it dry. Paint four paper plates black and let them dry. Cut two headlights and fenders from white construction paper and glue them to one end of the truck. Cut a windshield and windows from light blue construction paper and glue them to one end of the truck. Glue the wheels to your truck. Cut two ladders from orange or brown construction paper and cut two hoses from black construction paper. Cut white hub caps. Glue all of these to the sides of your truck. You now have a great fire truck to ride in or to use as a toy box!
Simple Sailboat Craft
You can make these cute little toy boats in just a few minutes. They are great for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice cutting with scissors, drawing, and molding clay. Supplies: A wide plastic lid (like the lid from a margarine tub) A drinking straw Construction paper Kids' scissors A hole punch Crayons, markers, and/or stickers A small wad of play dough Cut a triangle from a piece of construction paper - this will be your sail. Decorate the sail with crayons, markers, and/or stickers. Punch three holes along one side of the triangle. Weave a drinking straw (the boat's mast) through the holes. Put a small wad of molding clay on the inside of the lid. Push the end of the drinking straw into the clay. You now have a cute little toy sailboat that can float in water!
MUSICAL ART
What You Need: Large paper (14 x 20) CD PLAYER Various music accompaniments (i.e. classical, pop, country, rock) Pencils Pencil crayons What You Do: This is an excellent abstract shape, and color balancing exercise. Students place the tip of their pencil in the middle of the paper and close their eyes. With their eyes closed, the teacher begins playing a song on the CD player. Students then begin moving their pencils in movements on the page that mimic the instruments or rhythms of the music pieces. (i.e. a drum solo might be penciled as a jagged heart rate monitor-like line) The teacher alters the music from style to style while the students keep their eyes shut.Eventually (when most of the page is covered in lines) the students are told to open their eyes and to trace (darkly) all the penciled lines with a black pencil crayon. Finally, students are instructed to color each individual shape (that has been created by the penciled lines) in such a way that none of the same colors are touching each other. NOTE: Usually students enjoy this activity VERY much. They enjoy trying the music-eyes-closed-thing a lot. I suggest doing this a couple of practice times before drawing the final piece.
FALL WREATH
What You Need: paper plates scissors glue red, yellow, orange leaves acorns pinecones etc. What You Do: Cut out center of paper plate to have donut shape. Glue leaves, acorns and pinecones to paper plate Let dry. Hang your decorative fall wreath for all to see!
AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER
Objectives: Create an apple for the teacher using handprints. What You Need: red & green tempera paint paper ( 8 1/2 x 11) paintbrushes small, flat container newspaper What You Do: Spread newspaper over the work area. Paint palm with red paint. Press palm with red paint. Pour a small amount of green paint into a flat container. Dip pad of thumb in green paint and press above the apple print to make a leaf and stem.
Apple Dolls
Materials: plastic knives apples felt-tip pens cloves beads cotton cornsilk wire fabric needle and thread glue dowels or popsicle sticks Procedure: Each student will peel a large, hard apple. leaving a little skin at the top and bottom so it will dry in a round shape. Features (slits for eyes) will be carved, not very deep but wide apart. The apples need to be cored and placed on a dowel or popsicle stick and let dry for 3-4 weeks. The face can be decorated with beads for the eyes, teeth or the like. The body can be formed by wire with cloth strips wrapped around it. Then clothes and extras can be added for character.
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Strawberry Shortcake and Apple Dumpling How to Make Apple Stamps (Craft and Coloring Page) Apple with Elephant Apples Apples Fishing Chicken Johnny Appleseed

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