National Children’s Craft Day is this Sunday, March 14th. It’s been a while since we’ve talked crafting on this blog, and we thought it’d be fun to suggest a few relatively easy craft ideas to try out! These are all crafts that require a low number of supplies, to make it easier to have fun craft time with the kids.
Tape Resist Art
What you need:
Masking tape
Liquid watercolors, or acrylic paint
Construction paper
What to do:
To begin with, place strips of the tape on your construction paper wherever you’d like. When the paper has several strips of tape wherever desired, begin to paint with your watercolors or acrylics! Paint over the tape, and across the paper wherever you’d like.
You can use a paper towel to absorb some of the excess tape if necessary, and then peel the tape off. It should leave gaps in the color, and create a cool effect across the paper.
Fire-Breathing Dragon Craft
What you need:
Scissors
Liquid glue or a glue gun
Gluestick
Empty cardboard toilet paper roll
Red, yellow, and orange tissue paper
Googly eyes
2 pom poms that are around 1 inch, in your preferred color
2 pom poms that are around ⅜ of an inch, in your preferred color
Construction paper in your preferred color
What to do:
Cut some of your construction paper to be the length of the cardboard paper roll, and use the glue stick to coat one side of the paper. Line up the paper and the cardboard roll, and wrap the roll in the paper until it’s fully covered. Use a glue gun or the liquid glue to attach googly eyes to each of the larger pom poms, up top. These will serve as the dragon’s eyes!
Then, use the liquid glue or glue gun to attach the dragon eyes to one side of the cardboard roll, towards the end, on top. Use the same glue to attach the smaller pom poms towards the other end, on the same top-side, to form the dragon’s nose. They don’t have to be right at the edge of the roll, just set apart from each other as if they’re the eyes and nostrils on the long snout of a dragon!
Cut long, pointy strips of your differently covered tissue paper, around nine inches long. Glue the end of your strips of tissue paper into the inside of the paper towel, under the dragon’s nose. Keep gluing them in, making your way around the inside of the roll. You only want to put them there on the top part of the dragon’s “mouth” under the nose, and on the sides, not on the very bottom.
You’ve finished! Now, you can blow air into the end of the dragon head with the eyes, and your tissue paper should flutter as if the dragon is breathing fire.
Origami Finger Puppets
This one’s a little more complicated, because origami usually is best done with accompanying pictures! To help, we’re linking to a guide right here, which goes through all the distinct steps of making your origami finger puppet, with all the information you need to properly fold and make it!
Happy crafting, residents, and we hope you have fun if you try any of these with some of the younger members of the community!
