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Materials

  • Heavy brown grocery bags or heavyweight brown paper
  • Pencils
  • Scissors
  • Hole punch
  • Gummed circles (notebook paper hole reinforcers)
  • Yarn

 

What to do

1. Ask the children to remove their shoes. Trace their feet onto brown paper and help them cut out their feet shapes.

2. Punch three holes along the left and right side of each "paper shoe."

3. Show the children how to attach gummed hole reinforcers over the holes. Then, help them "lace" each paper shoe with yarn pieces.

4. Print each child's name on his "paper shoes."

5. Whenever it rains and the children have wet shoes, they can remove their shoes and wear their "paper shoes."

 

-Joan Stevenson, North Ft. Myers, FL

Instructions

1. Study butterflies. Read books about butterflies to the children and show them
videos. If possible, show them real butterflies.
2. Talk about the life cycle of a butterfly. Explain that butterflies go through four
stages: egg, caterpillar, cocoon, and butterfly.
3. Help the children make their own representations of a butterfly life cycle.
Begin by cutting off the tips of cotton swabs (these will be eggs). Help the
children glue the "eggs" onto paper leaves.
4. Make caterpillars using colored packing peanuts, pipe cleaners, and cotton
balls.
5. Show the children how to glue or tape a craft stick to their caterpillar and
then wrap yarn around it to make a cocoon.
6. Make butterflies. Put glitter and scraps of tissue paper into a zipper-closure
bag and spray water into it to mix the colors. Pull it together in the middle
with a pipe cleaner or clothespin to create the body and wings.
7. Give each child a large zipper-closure bag to store each part of the life cycle.

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