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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.

Three Tropical Rain Forest Talking Toucans Rhyme and a Craft

May 22, 2015 By Deirdre

This post is part of a series that is focused on the rainforest. It will include crafts, activities, and snacks. You can use the activities in this series as a unit or individually. Yesterday I shared with you a really cute blue morpho butterfly finger play and craft. Today’s rainforest animal is the toucan.

Tropical Rain Forest Three Talking Toucan Rhyme

Let’s start with a rhyme about toucans. The Three Talking Toucans don’t appear to have had any hand or body motions associated with it. I found the rhyme share on numerous sites and none of them shared any. I am sharing some that I think will work, but you can make up your own of course.

Three Talking Toucans

Three talking toucans sitting in a tree. (Hold one arm up like a tree with fingers spread out wide. Then hold three fingers from the other hand at the top of the tree.)

The first one turned and squawked at me! (Form a mouth with one hand. Open and close your hand like it is squawking.)

Three little toucans sitting in a row. (Hold up three fingers wide apart.)

The second one said, “I flap my wings, watch me go!”(Flap your arms up and down.)

Three little toucans sitting side by side (Hold up three fingers that are close together.)

The third one said, “My bright beak, I open wide!”(Hold up a hand like it is a mouth closed and slowly open it.)

Hand and Footprint Craft

After sharing the finger play, you can have your children craft a toucan. We made one by tracing one of my son’s shoes and his hand. The outline of his shoe and hand became the body and tail of the toucan.

We then cut out a wing shape. One of the wing’s sides was given a scalloped edge.

After having all the body parts we needed a cut of black paper complete, we cut out a beak. Toucans have various colors on their beaks. We chose to have the beak’s base color bright green.

Then various colors of tissue paper were cut out to go on the beak. You could have your children trace a section of the beak onto the tissue paper before cutting the tissue out. Another option is to glue the tissue paper onto the beak. When the glue has dried you can trim off the extra tissue. Either way will give stripes on your toucan’s beak.

Tissue paper was chosen because it can be challenging to cut. I wanted my son to work on his fine motor skills. Cutting thin tissue paper worked on those skills.

When the tissue paper on the beak had dried, the beak was glued to the toucan’s head. All that was left was to add a large wiggly eye and feet.

The feet were cut out of orange scrap paper. If you want to have your toucan displayed to look like it is flying you may choose to leave off its feet.

If you want to read about toucans with your children here are some wonderful toucan-themed books.

Timmy Toucan Dropped 10 Guavas (Mike Monkey Book 2)-This is a wonderful non-fiction book about toucans.

Toucans and Other Birds – This is a wonderful non-fiction book about birds. If you have children that love facts. This would be a good book for them.

Timmy Toucan Dropped 10 Guavas– What fun it is to count alongside Timmy Toucan!

If you try this finger play or craft or any of the other rainforest activities, please leave me a comment below telling me about how it went or share a picture of your toucan on my Facebook page.

LEGO Ideas- How to Make Unique Birthday Placemats

May 7, 2015 By Deirdre

I love coming up with new LEGO ideas. We have used LEGO to explore addition sentences, do science experiments, and illustrate book characters. I thought it was time for us to use LEGO to do an art project. LEGO make a great tool for printmaking with paint.

My son wanted to have LEGO themed birthday party this year. We went to a local Bricks 4 Kids and then out to a pizza buffet restaurant. I thought and thought about LEGO ideas for birthday parties that are not held at home. I wanted to bring something to decorate the table with, but I didn’t want cart a lot of stuff into the restaurant.

I had my son and two of his friends use LEGO to decorate some paper placemats. They dipped LEGO of all different sizes and shapes into small bowls of paint. Then they stamped them on the placemats. The kids loved them and I thought they looked great.

Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures of the kids creating the fun LEGO placemats that we made for the party. Recently we redid the craft so I could share it with you. We created these placemats using the number 4 in the center. My son is 7 but, we made them with a number 4 on them to use on May the Fourth Be with You Day. This is one of those LEGO ideas that can be used for children’s birthdays or a special holiday you are celebrating.

Warning: We used paper place mats and tempera paint so; spills or food smears changed their appearance. You could do this on cloth place mats with fabric paint if you want them to last beyond your party or event unblemished. We told the kids ours would be thrown away at the restaurant and they were fine with that.

Here are Some Other LEGO ideas:

LEGO Fraction Games

Geometry Riddles Solved with LEGO

Valentine Ideas – Graphing with Candy Hearts and LEGO

ABC LEGO Games

If you try these LEGO activities , please leave me a comment below telling me about how your experiments went or share a picture of it on my Facebook page. If you are looking for more LEGO learning games, you will find a number of them on my LEGO Learning Activities Pinterest board.

Mother’s Day Cards- My Biggest Fan

April 17, 2015 By Deirdre

Earlier this week I shared a Mothers Day card idea that children in the primary grades or preschool could make for their moms for Mothers Day and today I have a card for older children to make. This card requires that children have mastered cutting and precise gluing. While some younger children could do both of those things, there may be some that would be frustrated while this “Biggest Fan” card. That is why I have made two Mothers Day cards that you could create.

I went ahead a made you a printable fan card you can print out to save you some time. You may decide you want to have your children write out the card’s cover message in their own writing. They could also compose the text and choose the font of a computer.

Hint:
If you choose to have your children create their own text on card stock or white paper, make sure that there is enough room in the center of the card for the fan. I had to change the margins and text placement several times to get it the place wide enough for the fan.

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Once you have text on the card, it is time to create the fan. You can use a decorative cupcake liner or baking Cups like we did or a liner that is a single color. You may want to put out a bunch of them and have your children decide what type of liner that they want to use.

Supplies Needed for Creating This Card

Cupcake liners
File folder
White card stock or paper
Glue stick
Scissors

Steps for Creating the Fan

Fold the cupcake liner in half to create a fold.
Cut the cupcake liner in half by cutting the line you created when you folded it.
Cut in along the creased arc created by the divide between the liner’s base and ruffled sides.
Cut six narrow strips out of a manila file folder. They will be the fan’s ribs or sticks.
Glue the ribs in place on the back of the fan.
Turn the fan over and trim the ribs so that they are all the same length or close to it. We had one rib that was shorter than the others by a little bit.

Once the fan has dried, you can glue it to the front of the card.

Mothers Day Cards Messages

You may decide to have your children write a letter or a short note on the inside of the card sharing why they think their mom is their biggest fan. They could also draw a picture of their mom being their biggest fan or maybe even a cartoon conversation.

The craft fan on the outside of the card will be standard on everyone’s cards. It is the message they place in each of their Mothers Day cards that will make it truly unique and special.

Other Mothers Day Cards and Gifts You Can Make

Homemade Mothers Day Cards That are Heart Felt

How to Make a Mother’s Day Paper Flower Bouquet

My Fingerprints Poem and Craft

Mother’s Day Breakfast Sundae

You will find more Mother’s Day ideas on my Mother’s Day Pinterest board. I hope you will stop by and check them out.

Mother’s Day Poems and Printable Craft

April 14, 2015 By Deirdre

My son and I have done several projects for his grandmother for Mother’s Day. We have taken pictures on my son making a heart shape over his heart to put on homemade Mother’s Day cards. Another year we made three different kinds of paper flowers for a Mother’s Day bouquet. When my son was really little he created a fingerprint border around one of my favorite Mother’s Day poems. One of my favorite Mother’s Day creations was a Mother’s Day herb garden that featured plants whose first letter spelled out MOM. This year we explored Mother’s Day poems and selected a short poem about tea.

Why tea? I have seen several Mother’s Day crafts that feature a teacup or teapot along with a poem about mom and tea. This year I wanted a create a homemade gift for my mother-in-law that could be sent in the mail. A teacup craft and some wonderful teabags seemed like a wonderful idea.

When the craft was just in its planning stages, I decided to create a Mother’s Day teacup printable that you could use with your kids too. The printable would be something you could have your children decorate any way you wanted to. When it displayed an amazingly special design, the two craft pieces could be cut out and put together.

That is just what I ended up with. The printable has a blank teacup and a teabag tag on it. The tea bag tag displays what may be one of the shortest Mother’s Day poems around. I know there are other Mother’s Day poems about tea (I have listed a number of them at the end of this post.) The one I picked talks about the heart. It tugged at my heartstrings.

Before starting the craft, you may want to read your children one of these Mother’s Day-themed books.

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How to Catch a Mamasaurus

My Mother is Mine

All the Things I Love About You

Creating a Craft for the Mother’s Day Poem

Fingerprints are special and unique. Creating a fun brightly colored fingerprint for the teacup seemed like a great idea. As you can see the fingerprint flower has some wide and deeply colored petals and some faint ones. The paint was brushed onto a pointer finger and then pressed circularly to create a flower.

When the flower petals were dry, yellow paint was placed on a fingertip to create the flower’s center. We also added blue fingerprints around the base of the cup and on its handle.

A small hole was placed in the teabag tag and the opening of the cup. One end of a piece of gold ribbon was placed through both holes. The end going through the teabag tag was tied closed. The end of the ribbon that went through the cup was taped down at the same time a small pocket was taped to the back of the teacup.

A bag of tea was slipped into the pocket on the back of the teacup. The bag doesn’t have a label sharing what type of tea it is. It doesn’t have to. We will be sending my mother-in-law the remaining bags in their box with this gift. If you are creating this at school, you may want to have your children write what type of tea it is in the pocket.

Mother’s Day Poems I Like

The poems below are Mother’s Day poems I like. They probably would not go well with this craft, but I thought you would enjoy reading them. You can probably come up with wonderful crafts to go with them.

Mommy and Me

Best friends forever Mom and me
picking flowers and climbing trees.
a shoulder to cry on, secrets to share
Warm hearts and hands that care.
~Author Unknown~

I Said a Mother’s Prayer for You

I said a Mother’s Day prayer for you
to thank the Lord above
for blessing me with a lifetime
of your tenderhearted love.

I thanked God for the caring
you’ve shown me through the years,
for the closeness we’ve enjoyed
in time of laughter and of tears.

And so, I thank you from the heart
for all you’ve done for me
and I bless the Lord for giving me
the best mother there could be!

~Author Unknown~

M – O – T – H – E – R
Author: Howard Johnson
“M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold;
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be,
Put them all together, they spell “MOTHER,” A word that means the world to me

Mother’s Day Poems About Tea

Here are some of the other Mother’s Day Poems about tea that I found:

Relaxing Tea

I’ll try my best in every way,
Then open up this gift from me,
Relax and have a cup of tea!

A Cup of Tea

A cup of tea to say thank you
For all the things you’ve done
And wishes that the day will bring
Your happiness and fun.
Happy Mother’s Day.

Me and Tea

I’m not always just perfect,
Even though I try.
Sometimes when I’m not so great,
You give a little sigh!

On days like that, I wish
I could give you cause to smile
And have you put your feet up,
To rest a little while.

So the next time you’re tired,
And it’s because of me,
Please sit down and relax a while,
And have a cup of tea!

Gift of Tea

Here’s a gift for Mother’s Day:
With this gift, I’m trying to say
Thanks for all you do for me,
Relax and have a cup of tea!

YOU DESERVE IT!

You will find more Mother’s Day ideas on my Mother’s Day Pinterest board. I hope you will stop by and check them out.

Flower Crafts for Kids to Make

March 13, 2015 By Deirdre

Spring is the perfect time for creating flower crafts. These wonderful crafts for kids could be created to celebrate Easter, Earth Day or Mother’s Day. They would also be wonderful to give to a friend as “Get Well” or “You Are Thought Of” gift.

This collection features crafts from JDaniel4’s Mom and a number of others. I tried to select a wide variety of flowers! Some would be easy for young children to create and others would either mommy and me crafts or crafts for older children to do other their own.

Flower Craft for Kids from This Blog

How to Make Mother’s Day Flowers features directions on how to make three different kinds of flowers.

A daffodil with telephone book petals is a craft that allowed us to upcycle pages from the zillion of phone books we get each year.

Cupcake liner and doily flower with a Valentine’s Day theme could be made year-round. Red flowers such brighten a room.

Paper plate sunflowers were made after reading the book Sunflower House. Creating them was a great fine motor activity.

How to Make a Coffee Filter Poppy is a post I wrote for Veterans Day. We also make cork painted poppies to remember those who have served our country.

Flower Crafts for Kids From Others

Accordion Folded Spring Flower Collage by Make and Takes

Pool Noodle Bouquet from No Time for Flashcards

3-D Painting Daffodils from Fun at Home with Kids

Coffee Filter Flowers from Mama.Papa.Bubba

Rainbow Colored Cupcake Liner Flowers from I Heart Crafty Things

Melted Crayon Flowers from Home Grown Friends

Teach Mama created fun sparkly flowers that would brighten someone’s day.

Kitchen Counter Chronicle shows you how to make egg carton flowers.

Crafty Morning has made super cute 3-D doily flowers

The Nuture Store’s pinwheel daffodil looks like it would be really fun.

The Soda Bottle Flower found on Childhood Beckons is a guest post I wrote a few years ago.

I hope you have found some wonderful ways to bring the joy of spring into your home or classroom. There is just something wonderful about creating blooms in the spring.

If you make any of these ideas for crafts for kids to make, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

Crafts for Kids- Rainbow Collage of Colors

March 4, 2015 By Deirdre

We end up with a number of magazines. JDaniel gets two in the mail. I get two in the mail. We get some from my mother in law. Seeing that the magazine pile was getting a little bit tall I decided it was time to do a craft with them. ( We have done a number of crafts with recycled materials.) It would be fun I decided to search for rainbow colors in magazines and then gluing them in arcs of color. It would one of those crafts for kids that explores a number of skills and upcycle.

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I took out a5 Compartment Round Plastic Serving Tray. I didn’t have a tray that held all the colors of the rainbow. We decided we would search the magazines for just the first five colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green and blue). When we found a swatch of one those colors in a picture that was big enough to cut out, we did just.

We found that the magazines that featured recipe and food tended big pictures that contained the colors we were looking for. JDaniel’s kids magazines tended to have much smaller pictures. Thank goodness we had mine magazines to look through.

Hint: If you don’t have time for your children to cut out the color squares from magazines, you could do it in advance. You could also ask friends or family members to search their magazines and send you the pictures. They may like to help with crafts for kids.

The pictures were cut into small square like shapes. We both tried to cut nice squares with straight edges, but all the edges didn’t end up straight.

When we thought we had enough of each color, we were ready to start the rainbow collage. The square like sections of each color were glued on the a crayon draw rainbow that displayed the five colors we had searched for.

We found it easier to glue all the squares of one color down at one time and then move on to another color. You could glue them down any way your like. You may find that your children each approach gluing the colors down differently.

When all the arcs are covered with color squares from magazines, we were done. You may decide to add white construction paper cumulus cloud to either end of the rainbow. A pot of gold could be added too.

Here are some other St. Patrick’s Day activities for kids:

{Printable} Roll and Color St. Patrick’s Day Pages

Creating a Snack with Leprechaun Magic Dust

Creating a Rainbow Place Mat

Here are some other crafts for kids that have a St. Patrick’s Day theme:

Simple Sticker Rainbow

Five Little Hand Print Shamrocks Song and Craft

If you do try any of the above activities or holiday crafts for kids, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page

Moon With Craters Kids Crafts

February 16, 2015 By Deirdre

After my son showed me how to make do the Moon Pie moon cycle activity he had done at school, I brainstormed kids crafts that had a moon theme. After all it is fun to craft and snack on moon features. I really wanted the craft to have 3 dimensional element to it. While cleaning out our craft and learning activity closet, I came across a bin of beans we had used for a St. Patrick’s Day sensory activity. The kidney beans seemed to be just the right size for creating craters.

How This Kids Crafts Idea Came Together

We started by cutting a circle of the cardboard from a cereal box we had in our recycling bin. Despite tracing a circle onto the box by tracing the outline of a plate, our circle didn’t end up being perfect. We seem to have cut it out a little to the inside and outside of the circle. The moon is probably not a perfect circle anyway.

Then the kidney beans were glued down to form five circles. Once again they weren’t perfect circles, I bet the moon’s craters aren’t perfect either. If you try this craft with your kids, you could draw circles for them to glue the beans onto. You could do what we did! We made circle like glue circles on the cardboard and try to arrange the beans on them.

When the beans had had a chance to dry on the circle, we painted the cardboard and the beans gray. (We didn’t have gray paint so, I mixed white and black paint together to create gray paint.) We tried to cover the beans with paint completely. A smaller brush probably would have helped us get into the nooks and crannies of the bean circles. You can see small areas peeking out of paint in a few areas. Kids crafts work out that way sometimes. It gives them a very organic look.

The great thing about creating kids crafts with texture is that when they are dry you can explore them with your fingers. We have fun feeling the inside and the outside of the craters in this kids craft.

Books with a Moon Theme

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My son read the book Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventureat school. He loved this tale of boy who seeks to gather Moon Pies on the moon when his mom says he can’t have one before dinner. It is funny and filled with adventure. My son loves that kind of story.

The Phases of the Moon (Cycles in Nature) is a wonderful non-fiction moon book. It looks at the patterns the moon repeats as it goes through its phases. It is written for early readers and features real pictures.

Other Kids Crafts with a Moon Theme

Fantastic Fun and Learning has a wonderful moon crater craft with Styrofoam.

Decorated moon and a number of other moon activities can be found in this post from What Do We Do All Day?

No Time for Flashcards has created a puffy paint moon craft. It looks really cool.

If you do try any of these moon activities, please leave me a comment below telling me about them or share a picture of them on my Facebook page.

Valentine’s Day Crafts- My Heart Is Like A Zoo

January 21, 2015 By Deirdre

Tying together a book with crafts and learning activities based on it is a lot of fun. Recently we did just that with the book My Heart is like a Zoo. My Heart is Like a Zoo is a wonderful children’s book that compares various animals to love. What fun it is to read just how the storyteller’s heart is like each of the animals. Each illustration of an animal is made of layered hearts. Recreating these Valentine’s Day crafts to place on cards for JDaniel to give and learn with seemed like a great idea. (See yesterday’s post 8 People Kids Can Give Valentines Cards to find out who we will be giving cards to.)

Before starting the card-making process you may want to go back through the story and talk about why each animal fits with the love description shared with it. At my house, we thought some were perfect matches. We came up with other descriptors we thought fit better with others. It was fun to walk through the book again and share our insights.

How did I make the cards?

Craft Supplies:

Origami paper
Glue sticks
Scissors
White Cardstock

Valentine’s Day Crafts Tips

Origami paper worked out to be the best paper for creating heart animals. At first, I thought about tissue paper. It is thin enough for the bottom layers of tissue to show through. It is also a little bit of a challenge to cut. If you were going to try to make these cards too, I wanted to use a type of paper that would be easy to cut. Origami paper worked out really well.

I experimented with the different colors that the illustrator had chosen for his pictures. Changing some of the heart’s colors associated with Valentine’s Day seemed like a fun thing to do.

Children just need to look through the book to find an animal they want to try to recreate or be inspired to create a totally new animal.

I used white cardstock. It was much easier to see the layered hearts on the white paper than it was to work with a darker color like red or purple.

Directions:

Step One

Cut out all the shapes you will need to create your animal.

Step Two

Try putting the pieces together the way you want them arranged before you glue them together.

Step Three

Glue the hearts into position. I found that it was easiest for the smaller shapes to the largest shape. All the shapes that went on the bottom were glued first and then the shapes on the top.

Step Four

Finally, glue each of the animals to a piece of white card stock folded in half hamburger style.

Other Ways to Use These Valentine’s Day Crafts

Instead of making cards with the animals you could glue each of them to an index card and add a popsicle stick to the back. They would make great retelling puppets.

You could leave the popsicle sticks off the back of the index cards and use the animal cards to make a sequencing game.

If you try these Valentine’s Day crafts, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

Three Kings Day Craft for Kids

January 3, 2015 By Deirdre

We started the Christmas season by creating paper plate calling birds. We are ending the Christmas season or the twelve days of Christmas with this super cute Three Kings Day craft.

What is Three Kings Day?

You may have heard it called Epiphany or Twelfth Day. It celebrates the three kings or wise men that traveled to see Jesus. It is usually celebrated on January 6th. The names given for the kings are Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar.

Each of the kings brought a gift fit for a king. I looked up the meaning of each gift given by the kings on Crossways. I knew what they were, but I wanted to know why those gifts were given. One king brought gold in recognition of Jesus royal standing. One king brought frankincense in recognition of Jesus being divine. The final gift given by a king was myrrh. Myrrh was used for burials. It may have foreshadowed Jesus need to die for our sins.

How to Make the Three Kings Craft

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Materials needed:

Paper towel or toilet paper rolls
Origami Paper Double Sided Color
Scissors
Glue sticks

Directions:

We started by cutting two paper two rolls into 4 or 5 inch sections. ( We could have used toilet paper rolls.) We decided that the paper towel rolls we have are made of heavier cardboard. (That had pluses and minuses.)

Then we select origami paper for the Three Kings Day king’s robes, facial color, beards and crowns. We chose really deep colors for the robes. Kings tended to wear deep royal colors didn’t they? We chose a peach color for the three kings faces. After doing some research I realize we should have selected different colors. Many think that the kings each came from different cultures and that probably none of them had peach colored skin.

We cut a wide strip for paper from each of the robe colored sheets and then glued them on the bottom section of the paper towel rolls.

Three narrow strips were cut of peach colored paper and they were glued right above the bottom strip on each of the rolls.

Beards were then cut out of the colors of origami paper we thought would be good for facial hair. They were then glued in place. The beards helped cover where the face paper and robe paper meet.

Finally a narrow strip was cut out of each of the crown colored papers and was glued in place. This next step was the trickiest. We had to make zigzag cuts out of the top of the paper towel roll to make it look like a crown. If we have gone with a roll made of thinner cardboard it would have been easier to cut. The Three Kings Day king’s crowns would have probably have looked neater.

We did make gifts for the kings to carry, but decided against putting them on the kings. You may decided that your Three Kings Day kings really need gift to carry and hands to hold them.

If you do make a set of Three Kings Day kings of your own, please leave me a comment below telling me about them or share a picture of them on my Facebook page.

Here are some other cardboard tube crafts:

American Flag Tubes

Homemade Flute

Five Little Crows