Materials
Frozen juice can lids, one per child
Permanent markers
Template or stencil
Workbench or stack of newspapers or magazines
Safety goggles
Nails with large flat heads
Lightweight hammers
Yarn
Instructions
What to do
1. Give each child a frozen juice can lid.
2. Ask the children to draw a picture on their lid with a permanent marker, working freehand or
using a stencil.
3. Tell the children to place their lid on the workbench or a stack of newspapers or magazines.
4. Wearing safety goggles, have the children position the nail on the line of permanent marker
and hammer the nail, punching a hole through the lid; have them move the nail along the outline
of the drawing, punching holes through the entire design.
5. Punch a larger hole at the top of the lid and thread a piece of yarn through the opening. Hang
the lids in front of a window or on a Christmas tree.
More to do
Field trip: Visit a carpenter or woodworker.
Games: Show the children a set of carpentry tools and name them; cover the display and remove
one of the tools, then ask the children to identify the missing tool. Play a memory card game,
matching tools to their job.
More art: Nail scraps of wood together, creating a sculpture. Design a set of matching cards for a
memory game showing tools and their uses.
