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Kid Made Creations from Star Wars Movies

December 9, 2015 By Deirdre

Children just love the Star Wars Movies. Whether it is the older movies or the new ones. Here is a collection of wonderful Star Wars creations kids can make that feature objects and characters from the Star Wars Movies. Some may require preparation on your part. Others will be able to be completed all on their own.

General Star Wars Creations

Star Wars Play Dough Kit from Mama.Papa.Bubba.– What a fun gift this would make for the young Star Wars fans in you life!

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Star Wars Death Star Craft from Fun-A-Day– Kids will love watching the crayon strokes appear as they paint.

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Star Wars Milk Jug Craft from Living Locurto– JDaniel is asking me to help him make this fun light saber target.

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Star Wars X-Wing Fighters from Frugal Fun 4 for Boys– This cool fighter is made of office supplies that you probably have at home.

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No Sew Jedi Uniform from Frugal Fun 4 for Boys– What fun it would be to have light saber battle in your own uniform.

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Light Saber Creations

Make Your Own Light Saber from Picklebums– I love that the handle printable for this craft is available on this post.

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DIY Light Saber That Really Works from Lemon Lime Adventures – The glow that comes off this creation is super cool.

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Rainbow Loom Light Sabers from Frugal Fun for Boys– Kid will love making these and finding fun ways to display them.
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Star War Character Creations

R2-D2 Craft from Mom Inspired Life– This post shares two versions of R2-D2. There is one for younger children and one for older children.

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BB-8 Paper Plate Craft from Silly Fun Time– Kids will creating this new droid from The Force Awakening. The brass fastener used when creating this droid allows the paper plate to spin.
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Chewbacca Bookmark from Mom Start- This would be perfect to mark the starting reading spot in your favorite Star Wars book.

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Star Wars Toilet Roll Character from Kids Activities Blog– This is an amazing creative way to craft with cardboard tubes.

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Star Wars Shadow Puppets from Childhood 101- These are perfect for sharing your favorite scene from your favorite Star Wars movie.

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Star Wars Footprint Craft from The Pinterested Parent– What a creative way to paint using footprints!

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Paint Stick Chewbacca from Crafts by Amanda– Kid will love creating this furry creation!

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Darth Vader and R2D2 Shape Crafts from Toddler Approved– This is an awesome way to explore and build with shapes.

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Yoda Shape Craft from Toddler Approved– Even the youngest Star Wars fans can explore shapes when creating this craft.

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Creations from Star Wars Movies Found on JDaniel4’s Mom

Star Wars Light Saber Shape Craft

This shape craft features the new Cross guard light saber. Children get to combine triangles to make rectangles in this craft.

Chewbacca Shape Craft

This shape craft was created for younger children. If you keep it simple, you can make the sash for your children ahead of time.

Yoda Paper Bag Puppet

Texture is created while painting Yoda’s skin with a fork. Your children will enjoy fork painting.

Chewbacca Paper Bag Puppet

Chewbacca was also fork painted. We wanted to try to make him look furry. Fork painting and magic marker strokes gave us the look we wanted.

New Years Eve Games and Activities

December 7, 2015 By Deirdre

New Years Eve is such fun to celebrate with kids! We have celebrated it at noon on New Years Eve! We have celebrated in via a countdown to New Years starting the week before. Sometimes we have celebrated it on the first day of the new year. No matter when you celebrate it with your kids I think they will love the New Years Eve games and activities I am sharing below.

New Years Eve Games and Activities

New Years Interview from Teach Mama

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New Years Traditions from Around the World from Red Ted Art

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New Years Time Capsule from Imagination Tree

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{Free Printable} New Years’ Eve Counting Booklet and Memory Booklet from Royal Baloo

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New Year’s Eve Games Bingo Cards from Plucky Momo

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Family New Year’s Activities from Mom with a Lesson Plan

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New Year’s Eve Game from All Done Monkey

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New Years Photo Memory Game from No Time for Flashcards

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New Years’ Eve Countdown Activity Bags from Happy Home Fairy

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Free New Years Coloring Pages from 3 Dinosaurs

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Fireworks in a Jar from I Can Teach My Child

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New Year’s Blowers Painting Project from Glued to My Crafts

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New Year’s Wishing Wand from Baby Centre

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Printable New Year’s Coloring Party Hats from Totschooling

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Pipe Cleaner Tiara from Zing Zing Tree

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Clock Hats for New Year’s Eve From Reading Confetti

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Confetti Party Popper from Mama Miss

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New Years’ Eve Confetti Eggs from Rad Megan

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New Year’s Eve Celebration Playdough from Mama.Papa.Bubba

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Simple New Year’s Recipes for Kids from Lemon Lime Adventures

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New Year’s New Paper Plate Countdown

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Counting Stars Gross Motor Game

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Ten Preschool New Years’ Eve Songs

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New Years’ Eve Sensory Bin

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New Year’s Eve Sparkler Drink

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New Year’s Custom and Activities Chart

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New Year’s Eve Shakers

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I have placed the links to the pins for these wonderful activities beneath each activity. Please take a moment to pin your favorites to your boards!

Yoda Puppet- Star Wars Craft For Kids

October 30, 2015 By Deirdre

A short time ago I shared with you a simple Chewbacca paper bag puppet. Today I have a Yoda puppet to share with you. It looks a little complicated, but it really isn’t.

Let me walk you through how to make this Star Wars craft.

Craft Supplies Needed:

Three brown paper lunch bags
Green paint
Plastic fork
White, brown and black construction paper
Silver corrugated paper
Scissors
Glue stick

Directions

Use a plastic fork to paint the front of one of the lunch bags and the back of the other bag.

Cut a piece of brown construction paper to fit the front of the paper bag. It needs to fit under the flap and reach all the way to the bottom of the bag.

Cut out Yoda’s brown cloak out of the front of your unpainted bag and the front that was left unpainted on your second paper bag.

Cut out a long rectangular strip from brown construction paper for Yoda’s belt.

Glue the cloak pieces to the brown construction paper rectangle.

Wrap the belt around the paper bag and glue it in place in the front of the bag.

Cut Yoda’s ears, nose, lower eyelids, and lightsaber out of the second paper bags back. Yoda’s nose and two mouth section are just about the same. You could cut them out at the same time.

Cut two white circles out of construction paper for the back section of Yoda’s eyes. They cut out the black front area of his eyes. Simple black circles could be cut out instead of the fancy ones I made.

Glue all the facial features in place. We moved them around a lot before we glued ours in place.

Finally, construct Yoda’s lightsaber. We glued black strips of paper to the front of a long silver rectangle. Then we attached the green lightsaber light to the back of the silver rectangle.

Viola! Our Star Wars craft was completed!

If you would like, you could have your Yoda puppet read one of the following books:

DK Readers L3: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Yoda in Action!

Star Wars Jedi Academy Collection Set

Here are some other Star Wars activities we have done:

Wookie Cookie

Star Wars Breakfast for Lunch

Star Wars Crafts Done By Others:

Crayon Resist Death Star by Fun-A-Day

Rainbow Loom Light Sabers by Frugal Fun for Boys

Toilet Roll Star Wars Characters by Kids Activities Blog

R2-D2 Craft by TipJunkie

Yoda Shape Craft by Toddler Approved

Painting Ideas for Kids Using Rubber Bands

August 14, 2015 By Deirdre

My son and I recently found a cool way to paint with rubber bands. It is one of those painting ideas for kids that they will want to do again and again.We found it while looking through a cool book by Mary Ann F. Kohl called Action ART: HANDS-ON ACTIVE ART ADVENTURES (Bright Ideas for Learning (TM)) that I was sent to review and explore.

The book mentioned that boys would look at the rubber bands and be more than ready to snap them. (In the book this activity is actually calls this painting technique snap painting.) I set out the cookie sheet with rubber bands, paintbrushes and paint for my son to discover.

At first my son wasn’t excited about doing a paint project. It just wasn’t a painting kind of day. Then all of a sudden I heard the rubber bands start to be plucked and strummed. Mary Ann was right the rubber bands were a hit.

After we put paint on the rubber bands, the paint started to spatter and fly onto the paper. This painting activity was declared to be very cool. Time and time again paint was reapplied to the rubber bands and spattered on the paper.

It is hard to say whether it was the ability to make paint fly or the noise the rubber bands made that made this one of those painting activities that we will be doing again.

As my son explored ways to move the rubber bands, he found several techniques that really worked well and created a lot of noise.

Here is a list of them:

Strumming the rubber bands from first band to the last.
Lifting a rubber band up with the inside of one of your fingers and letting it bounce back down.
Lifting two rubber bands up with the inside of two fingers and letting it fall back into place.
Tapping the rubber bands with a number of fingers at the same time.
Bouncing a whole hand on the rubber bands.
Bouncing both hands on the rubber bands.

Applying Paint Hints:

Applying the paint with a narrow brush seemed to work best. When the paint was applied with a wider brush, paint always seemed to spatter on the paper.
We used a different paintbrush for each paint color. It kept the paint from getting mixed up when it was reapplied.

There are over 100 painting ideas for kids in the book Action ART: Hands-On Active Art Adventures . After seeing the fun my son had painting with rubber bands I can’t wait to try more of the ideas.

What is your children’s favorite way to paint? Leave me a comment sharing their favorite way of painting below or on my Facebook page.

Despicable Me Minions Craft Idea- Foam Pencil Holder

July 15, 2015 By Deirdre

I thought it would be fun to make my son a Despicable Me Minions pencil holder for his homework pencils. He has loved the Minions since he saw them in their first movie. Since seeing the movie we have made a Minion craft stick puzzle, printable “You’re One in a Minion” cards, and a Minion costume. This cute pencil holder will be a great addition to our Minion collection.

Supplies for the Despicable Me Minions Craft

Yellow foam cup holder
Gray, black, white, and blue craft foam
Elmer’s Extreme School Glue

Directions for Making the Minion Cup Holder

I started by cutting out a long piece of blue foam. The blue foam was cut into narrow band at the bottom and two straps for the overalls. The band was about 2 inches wide before it was cut down. The blue foam had a sticky back so it went easily onto the cup holder.

Then a half inch wide strip of black foam was cut out and glued near the top of the cup holder. It would become the band for the goggles.

The eyes and goggles were built on top of round pieces of white foam. The medium sized bottle cap was used to trace the circles for the goggles. A small bottle cap was used to trace the inside edge of the goggles. An X-acto knife was used to cut the inside and outside of the goggles. (It was much easier to use then scissors would have been.) The outside edge of goggle circles were traced onto white foam and then cut out. Each frame was a little different so, I needed individual eyes that would fit under each one.

With the white circles cut out it was time to cut out little black pupils. Then the pupils and the goggles were glued onto the white circles. When the glue had dried, the completed eyes were glued to the black band.

A little grin was cut out of a piece of black foam. At the same time the symbol on the Minions overalls was also cut out. Both of them were glued onto their spots on the Minion.

To keep pencils from fall through the hole in the foam cup a foam circle was place inside. The circle was just a little smaller than the base of the foam cup holder.

If your create a Despicable Me Minions pencil holder, please share a picture of it with me on Facebook.

Kids Song About Five Little Starfish and a Craft

July 13, 2015 By Deirdre

Songs that are about five little creatures or objects are such fun to sing. I have previous shared with you Five Little Firemen, Five Little Crows, and Five Little Apples just to name a few. This summer I searched a kids song about ocean life and came across Five Little Starfish. A fun kids song or chant becomes even more fun when kids can make a craft to go with it. Below I am going to share two versions of the song Five Little Starfish and a craft that was made to go along with them.

Two Versions of the Five Little Starfish Kids Song

Five Little Starfish with Colors Song

Five little starfish by the lie down by the shore,

The yellow starfish got lost and that left just four.

Four little starfish float in the sea,

The blue one swam too faraway and that left just three.

Three little starfish in the ocean blu,e

The red one went on a seahorse ride and that left just two.

Two little starfish bathe in the sun,

The orange one washed out to sea and that left just one.

One little starfish swimming without a friend.

It was time for him to go home and so our song had to end.

Five Little Starfish

Five little starfish by the lie down by the shore,

A starfish got lost and that left just four.

Four little starfish float in the sea,

One swam too faraway and that left just three.

Three little starfish in the ocean blue,

One went on a seahorse ride and that left just two.

Two little starfish bathe in the sun,

One washed out to sea and that left just one.

One little starfish swimming without a friend.

It was time for him to go home and so our song had to end.

Five Little Starfish Craft

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We created five little red felt starfish to go along with the second song. You could easily have your children create a yellow, red, blue, orange, and green starfish to go along with the first song. ( The first song doesn’t mention the color of the last starfish so, I made him green.)

A cookie cutter was used to trace five stars onto red felt. Then the stars were cut out. The felt we used wasn’t very thick so it was easy to cut out the star.

Then two wiggly eyes were glued onto each of the starfish. We used Elmer’s X-TREME Extra Strength Washable School Glue Stick, 0.88 Ounces, Single Stick (E584) glue the eyes on. It does a great job of holding the eyes in place.

Finally we used self-adhesive reinforcement labels to add circles to the starfish. Each of our starfish and some long arms and some short ones. If the arm was long it got two stickers and if it was short it got just one.

If you decide to make starfish to go along with one or both of these songs, please share a picture of them with me on Facebook.

Arts and Crafts for Kids- Pool Noodle Shark

June 30, 2015 By Deirdre

We are still coming up with ways to use sections of a pool noodle we had leftover from making a game called Counting to Ten. Last week I shared with you how we experimented with pool noodle airplanes. This week I have pool noodle shark craft to share. We love doing arts and crafts with leftover or recycled items. This shark qualifies as recycled craft because two recycled items were used to make it. The pool noodle section is one and the egg carton that was used for the teeth is the second.

As you can see in the picture above two pieces of pool noodle were used to build the shark’s body. The smaller piece was cut out of the larger piece by cutting a diagonal wedge out of the larger one with a bread knife. (I did the cutting for this project.) The flat side of the smaller piece was glued to the top of the larger section with an Elmer’s Xtreme glue stick.

Wiggly eyes were glued on either side of the shark’s head with the same glue stick. We glued them right on the seam connecting the top and bottom noodle sections

Then it was time to cut the teeth of the egg carton. We cut out twelve small diamond shapes out of styrofoam egg carton. (If you don’t have styrofoam egg cartons available, you could use craft foam.) Each diamond was cut individually so each tooth would be unique.

To get the teeth to stick into the pool noodle a cupcake topper with a sharp end was used to carve out space for each tooth. (If you don’t have one, you can use a toothpick instead.) We pushed in the cupcake topper and turned it in a circle to make a space large enough for each tooth. A little dab of glue from the glue stick was placed on the end of each tooth as it was planted in the shark’s mouth to hold it in place.

Finally, a fin was cut out of a pool noodle section. One end of two toothpicks was poked into the fin. The other end was pushed in the back of the shark’s head. We could have glued the fin on but decided to make extra sure that the fin would stay in place.
While I was thinking about the end product of this being a craft to display, JDaniel pointed out the this would be a great puppet. Maybe we will have to come up with shark songs or rhymes for the shark to perform.

Here are some more shark activities you will love:

How Do Sharks Float?

How to Make a Pool Noodle Shark

How to Draw a Shark with an Algorithm Worksheets

If you decide to try this arts and crafts project at home, please share a picture of it with me on Facebook.

Sandpaper and Crayon Art Iron On Transfers

June 18, 2015 By Deirdre

Last year one of the craft projects the kids did at my church’s vacation bible school was to create sandpaper and crayon art iron on transfers. Each child brought a white shirt and their drawing was transferred by a volunteer onto it. I thought it would be fun do this craft at home and create 4th of July crayon drawings for shirts. As you can see from the collage above and the picture below, JDaniel and I both created very different drawings to celebrate the 4th.

Let me walk you through how we crafted our 4th of July shirts. They are so easy to make. I know you are going to want to make shirts of your own for all kinds of holidays and events.

We Started with Crayon Art

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Everyday waxed crayons were used to draw on 100 medium sandpaper. (I love Crayola crayons for crafts. ) The most important part of creating crayon art that will transfer is to color darkly by pressing down hard with your crayon. That means coloring each area over and over again.

We did free hand coloring and coloring inside a star shaped cookie cutter. (A cookie cutter made a great template.) When you do this craft you can use templates, cookie cutters or just have your kids draw.

We talked about the symbols of our country before starting the project! Your kids could really place anything they think celebrates the 4th of July on their sandpaper. One of us decided to have dinosaur as part of our design. I think it was a brilliant idea. The design show U.S. symbols and something that interests it artist. It is so important that children feel they can express themselves when they create and not have to make a rigid design.

Hint: It is a good idea to tell children that the pictures will be reversed when they are transferred to their shirt. My son’s flag came out on his shirt backwards. I flipped the picture of the shirt when I edited the picture.

Moving the Crayon Art To The Shirt

When we finished our pictures on the sandpaper, I heated up the iron to a high heat. The shirt was placed on a pad with a cloth placed on it.

Then the crayon art was placed face down on the shirt. I placed our transfers up to high on the shirts. When we do this again, I will place them more towards the center of the shirt.

We set a timer for three minutes and then I started ironing. I held the iron in place for a few seconds over each area of the sandpaper to start with. Then I went back and forth across it. When the timer stared dinging, I lifted the iron off of the transfer.

Hint: An ironing board is probably a better choice. We will use one next time we do this project.

The transfer was left on the shirt for a couple of second and then we peeled it off. Voila! We had really cool shirts personally designed by us! They will be such fun to wear on the 4th of July, Veterans Day and next Memorial Day!

Hint: Placing your shirt in a dryer on a low heat will help your design set.

If you like this patriotic craft idea, you may like these too.

Flag Mobile

Cardboard Tube Flag

Fold and Thread Necklace

Patriotic Confetti Eggs

Painted Flag

If you create sandpaper and crayon art iron on transfers, please take a picture of them and share them with me. You can share them on my Facebook page.

Here is a Dinosaur That Will Sing Dinosaur Songs

June 17, 2015 By Deirdre

Kids love to sing songs with hand motions or a puppet. The hand motions or puppet give kids something to do with their hands when they sing. I think puppets give shy kids the the opportunity to sing with something or through it. It takes their attention off of themselves and gives them something else to focus on. We recently made a triceratops paper bag puppets to go along with fun dinosaur songs.

Since we are home for the summer, we didn’t sing the songs with a group. What we did do was have our puppets was to read each of the songs and then sing them. It was counted as our summer reading time for the day.

How to Make the Puppet

The puppet we made is a tradition paper bag puppet. Green and white pieces of construction paper have been cut out to fit over different areas of a paper bag.

What pieces make up the puppet:

Long body piece that fits under the the flap on the front of the bag and reaches down the the bottom of the bag. You can trace around this section of the bag onto the green construction.
Two pieces that are a little longer than the bag’s flap were cut out. One piece had a pointed end and one was just rounded. Those areas can also be traced on to paper green construction paper
A fan piece for the back
Three horns cut of of white paper.
Two round eyes were cut out of white paper
Two small black round pieces were cut out

Before the green construction paper pieces were glued in place,we traced their edges with a black marker. Then we sponge painted them with blue, brown, and green paint. Sponge painting gave the triceratops some texture.

When the paint had dried, we were ready to start gluing the pieces in place. All of the green sections were glued on first. Then the horns and eyes were added. When the glue had dried we were reading to start singing dinosaur songs.

Dinosaur Songs

5 Enormous Dinosaurs

Five enormous dinosaurs letting out a roar.

One went away and then there were four!

Four enormous dinosaurs munching on a tree.

One went away and then there were three!

Three enormous dinosaurs didn’t know what to do.

One went away and then there were two!

Two enormous dinosaurs having lots of fun.

One went away and then there was one!

One enormous dinosaur afraid to be a hero.

He went away and then there was ZERO!

All Around the Jungle (to the tune of: Wheels on the Bus)

The brontosaurus goes, much, munch, munch.

Munch, munch, munch. Munch, munch, munch.

The brontosaurus goes, much, munch, munch.

All around the jungle!

Repeat with:

The stegosaurus’ tail goes spike, spike, spike.
The triceratops’ horns go poke, poke, poke.
The pterodactyl’s wings go flap, flap, flap.
The Tyrannosaurus goes grr, grr, grr.

Dinosaurs Lived Long Ago

(sung to “London Bridge is Falling Down”)
Dinosaurs lived long ago, long ago, long ago,
Dinosaurs lived long ago, That’s prehistoric!

Tyrannosaurus was very mean, very mean, Very mean,
Tyrannosaurus was very mean, That’s prehistoric!

Brontosaurus was very big, very big, very big,
Brontosaurus was very big, that’s prehistoric!

Stegosaurus wore heavy spikes, heavy spikes, heavy spikes,
Stegosaurus wore heavy spikes, that’s prehistoric!

Triceratops had big sharp horns, big sharp horns, big sharp horns,
Triceratops had big sharp horns, that’s prehistoric!

Pterodactyl could fly in the air, fly in the air, fly in the air,
Pterodactyl could fly in the air, that’s prehistoric!

All the Dinosaurs disappeared, disappeared, disappeared,
All the Dinosaurs disappeared, that’s why their prehistoric!

All Around the Swamp

(to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus”)

The Pteranodon’s wings went flap, flap, flap,
Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap,
The Pteranodon’s wings went flap, flap, flap,
All around the swamp.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex went grr, grr, grr,
Grr, grr, grr, grr, grr, grr,
The Tyrannosaurus Rex went grr, grr, grr,
All around the swamp.

The Triceratops’ horns went poke, poke, poke,
Poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke,
The Triceratops’ horns went poke, poke, poke,
All around the swamp.

Additional Verses:
The brontosaurus went munch, munch, munch.
The stegosaurs’ tail went spike, spike, spike.

The dinosurs went zzz, zzz, zzz,
Zzz, zzz, zzz, zzz, zzz, zzz,
The dinosurs went zzz, zzz, zzz,
All around the swamp.
Shhhhhhhh.

The Dinosaur Song

(Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus “)

The tyrannosaurus rex had great big teeth,

Great big teeth, great big teeth.

The tyrannosaurus rex had great big teeth,

When the dinosaurs roamed.

Additional verses:

The apatosaurus had a very long tail……

The diplodocus’ nostrils were on top of his head………

The saltopus was as small as a cat…….

I hope you enjoy making a dinosuar and having him sing dinosaur songs.

Here are some other puppets were have made:

Five Little Turkeys Stick Puppets

Walking Finger Puppets

Five Little Crows Tube Puppets

You will find even more puppet crafts on my Creating Puppets Pinterest board.

Animals in the Rainforest- Anteater Craft for Kids

May 23, 2015 By Deirdre

Is that an anteater or an aardvark? Well, I am glad that you asked! This is an anteater and it is the third in a series of animals in the rain forest crafts that I am sharing. We started with blue morpho butterflies. Next, we looked at toucan. The next animal that a craft will be shared for is the poison dart frog so keep your eyes open for him.

Cutting Out the Anteater

When I look at an anteater, I think it looks almost symmetrical. The tail end is fluffy and not as narrow, but it is awfully close to being symmetrical to me.

Objects and animals that are symmetrical can be created by folding paper in half. You can then cut out just one side of the animal. When you unfold the paper, you will see the whole animal!

We did just that to make our anteater. Brown construction paper folded in half and an animal form was cut out. The form was made up of an elephant-like nose, two legs, and an underbelly

When the animal cut out was complete the pieces were unfolded. The tiny areas where the two arcs are attached were cut to separate them. Once we decided which arc was the tail, we could trim the tail to make it shorter.

Adding Texture with Paint

We looked at the anteater’s body and decided that the anteater needed to look fluffier. The whole anteater was then painted brown with strokes made with a plastic fork.

Adding Details

A wiggly eye was added to the front area of the anteater. They have small eyes!

One end of a red pipe cleaner was twisted into a spiral. The other end was glued onto the back of the anteater’s nose. We didn’t glue the end of the tongue down. It was left free!

An anteater totally needs to have ants nearby. We made some by cutting black pipe cleaners into thirds. Three of the thirds were twisted together to make an insect with six legs. They look more like spiders than ants to some people. I guess they do kind of look like spiders.

One ant was glued to the piece of construction paper at the same time the anteater was. A second ant was wrapped in the tongue. This made the craft kinetic or interactive.

In the picture, the below the ant fell out of the tongue. He must have been trying to getaway! This made the craft kinetic or interactive.

Are we sure this is an anteater and not an aardvark? Yes, I am. We visited How Stuff Works and read about both of them. What we made look more like an anteater to us based on what we learned there!

If you are interested in reading more about anteaters in real-life or in fiction, you will want to check out the following books.

The Icky Sticky Anteater

an anteater named arthur

Princess Sourface

Anteaters (Bullfrog Books: My First Animal Library)

If you make this craft or any of the other rain forest activities, please leave me a comment below telling me about how it went or share a picture of your anteater on my Facebook page.