Little Jack Horner Paper Plate Pie Craft

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Little Jack Horner’s Plum Pie Craft

Let me walk you through the directions on how to make a Little Jack Horner’s paper plate craft. If you come up with different ways you want to do each step with your children, please let me know what you end up doing. You can post a picture of your pie on my Facebook page.

Supplies

Paper Plate
Brown Construction Paper
Purple Construction Paper
Brown Lunch Sack
Scissors
Glue

Getting the Paper Parts Cut Out

You will need to start by tracing the hand of your child or having them trace their own hand. Then cut the hand out.

Next, you or your children will need to trace 12 circles onto the purple paper. If you have a plastic egg handy, your children can use half of it to trace the circles.

The brown construction paper will then need to be cut into strips or really long rectangles. Strips that are about 2 inches wide are great!

Putting the Pie Together

Now that everything has been cut out it is time to put Little Jack Horner’s pie together. The purple circles will need to be glued down first. Set one of the circles aside to use later.

Then the brown strips will be glued vertically and then horizontally across the plate. They will give the pie a criss-cross design.

Finally, the hand will need to glued near the edge of the plate. Your children then will glue the circle that was set aside to the thumb. It will represent the plum that was pulled out of the pie.