Other Pre-reader Activities.
Crafts
for Preschoolers and Kindergartners
K-3 Themes
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The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. See a page about color mixing to see how to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow.
PAPER FINGER PUPPETS Your fingers are the legs of these simple paper puppets. Make dinosaurs and nursery rhyme characters. |
Paper Frog Puppet
A simple-to-make frog puppet made from a piece of paper. This puppet's mouth moves! |
Paper Bag Puppets An easy way to make a dog, panda, raccoon, pig, cat, frog, or mouse puppet. |
PAPER PLATE LADYBUG PUPPET A ladybug puppet made from two paper plates. |
Miscellaneous Simple Crafts:
PHOTO, HANDPRINT BLOSSOM CRAFT Make a keepsake blossom from a photo of your child and two handprints. |
FIREWORKS CRAFT
Create your own fireworks by using dark construction paper, glue and different colors of glitter. |
SIMPLE SAILBOAT A very easy sailboat made from a plastic lid, a straw, paper, and modeling clay. |
GOOD LUCK HAND (KHAMSA) The khamsa is a symbol of good luck from Morocco, Africa. You can make this simple version out of paper or aluminum foil. |
RABBIT MASK A cute bunny mask made from two paper plates. |
HANDPRINT CRAFTS Make simple crafts using hand tracings or hand prints. |
PAPER PLATE OWL A cute owl made from three paper plates. |
ALLIGATOR CARD
This very simple alligator is a cute craft that also makes a nice card. |
PAPER PLATE FISH A simple-to-make fish made from a paper plate. |
LADYBUG COSTUME An easy-to-make ladybug costume that is made from a large paper grocery bag. |
SPIRAL SNAKE A paper snake that's easy to make. |
PAPER PLATE SUNFLOWER WITH STEM Make colorful sunflowers from handprint cut-outs, a paper towel tube, sunflower seeds, and a paper plate. |
EGGCARTON TULIPS Make a bouquet of delicate eggcarton tulips, using foam egg carton sections, and pipe cleaners. |
MAKE A MEDAL Easy-to-make medals to award at parties! |
PIGGY BANK
A wonderful piggy bank made of papier-mâché. |
COFFEE CAN BANK
An easy, personalized bank made from a tin can. |
PRETEND STAINED GLASS Make a beautiful window hanging using waxed paper, crayon shavings, and pictures. |
REALLY BIG HAT
Make an incredibly huge hat from a large brown paper grocery bag. This is a nice, simple craft that works well at children's parties. |
BLACK CAT HAT
A scary black cat hat made from construction paper. |
DINOSAUR HATS  Make papier-mâché dinosaur hats using balloons, newspaper, flour-water paste, and paint. |
DELIGHTFUL DOG CARD An easy-to-make card for dog lovers. |
MAGNIFICENT MASKS Print out and decorate many masks: lion, cat, dog, pig, koala, and robot. |
PAPER PLATE ANGEL Make a beautiful angel from a paper plate. |
BENDABLE MAGNETIC ANIMALS AND PEOPLE You can make simple, bendable magnetic toys using doughnut-shaped magnets and pipe cleaners. |
LITTER BUG An easy-to-make Litter Bug made of recycled items. |
RAINBOW STREAMER Make a handheld rainbow that you can use while putting on your own St. Patrick's Day parade or while dancing a jig. |
HANDPRINT RAINBOW The handprints of many children form a beautiful rainbow, making a great classroom decoration or bulletin board. This project is good for a group of children. |
PINE CONE BIRD FEEDER Make a really simple bird feeder from a pine cone. |
MAGICAL LEAF IMAGE Make a magical leaf image appear using a leaf, crayons, and paper. |
EGG CARTON ANIMALS Make animal crafts from egg cartons and pipe cleaners. Make a ladybug, spider, a bat, a caterpillar, and a camel. |
HAND AND FOOT TURKEY CRAFT This cute turkey is made from your child's handprints and footprints. |
HANDPRINT TREE Make a great paper tree from little hand prints. |
HANDPRINT WREATH Make a paper wreath from little hand prints. |
HAND AND FOOT REINDEER Make a cute paper reindeer from a child's footprint and hand prints. |
Butterfly and Caterpillar Crafts:
PAPER CHAIN CATERPILLAR Make a cute caterpillar from a paper chain. |
BUTTERFLY WINDOW HANGING Make a butterfly window hanging using waxed paper, crayon shavings, and an iron. |
ORIGAMI BUTTERFLY
A simple-to-make origami butterfly made by folding a piece of paper. |
BUTTERFLY WAND Make a butterfly wand with a popsicle stick, a pipe cleaner and a coffee filter. |
EGG CARTON CATERPILLAR Make animals from egg cartons and pipe cleaners. Make a ladybug, spider, a bat, a caterpillar, and a camel. |
SWEET NECKLACE Make an edible necklace using licorice laces and cereal. |
CUP O' WORMS A very yucky treat made of chocolate pudding and gummy worms! Great at children's parties. |
CUP O' FISH Make an edible aquarium. |
MAGICAL PRE-SLICED BANANA An easy-to-make magical banana that will really surprise your friends! |
DINOSAUR COLORING BOOK A dinosaur book you can print out and color in. |
BUILD A T. REX
Create a fierce Tyrannosaurus rex out of paper, cardboard, glue, scissors, and crayons. |
DINOSAUR EGGS
Make a huge dinosaur egg that you can decorate and later hatch. |
STUFFED DINOSAURS Print out dinosaur templates to make stuffed dinosaurs. |
CARDBOARD BARN Make a cute barn from a cardboard box. |
OATMEAL BOX SILO Make a farm silo from an oatmeal box. |
CARDBOARD CASTLE Make an enchanted castle from a cardboard box. |
BOX TOWN Make an entire town using old boxes and cartons, paper, crayons, tape, and glue. |
EASY EASEL Make a desk-top easel using a cardboard box and clothes pins. |
BOX GUITAR Make a guitar using a box, rubber bands, and pencil. |
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Halloween Crafts |
 Halloween Word Mini Book A Printable Writing Book A tiny, printable book about simple words related to Halloween-- for early readers and writers. The book has 2 pages to print and makes 8 pages for the student to cut out, color, and write in. The words are: bat, candy, cat, spider, web, witch, and "Can you think of another Halloween word?" |
 Apple Shape Book A short book about apples to print, with pages on Johnny Appleseed, how to say apple in many languages, the seasons to label, apple facts, and apple questions. |
 Bat Shape Book to Print A short book about bats to print. |
 Combien? Halloween Items Printable Number Book A short, printable book for early readers in French, with a Halloween theme and the numbers from 1 to 10, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy. The pages are: Je vois ___ araignée, bonbons, squelettes, chats, crânes, sorcières, toiles d'araignée, fantômes, potirons, et chauves-souris. |
 Fall Colors Book A short book about fall colors to print for early readers, with pages for the student to color and write a short phrase. |
 Halloween Color Book A short Halloween book about colors to print for early readers, with pages for the student to color and write a short phrase. |
 Halloween: How Many? Printable Number Book A short, printable book for early readers, with a Halloween theme and the numbers from 1 to 10, with pages for the student to cut out, animals to color, and a short phrase to copy. The pages ask: How many spiders, jack-o'-lanterns, skeletons, cats, skulls, witches, webs, ghosts, pumpkins, and bats. |
 Haunted House: How Many? Printable Book A short, printable book about counting and adding Halloween items, including ghosts, bats, witches, webs, skulls, spiders, jack-o'-lanterns, scarecrows, skeletons, and cats. |
 Haunted House: Subtraction Printable Book A short, printable book about subtracting Halloween items, including ghosts, witches, bats, skulls, spiders, webs, cats, skeletons and jack-o'-lanterns. |
 How Many Apples? Printable Number Book A short, printable book for early readers, about apples and the numbers from 1 to 10, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy. |
 How Many Bats? Printable Number Book A short, printable book for early readers, about bats and the numbers from 1 to 10, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and short phrases to copy. |
 How Many Leaves? Printable Activity Book A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10 for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy. |
 How Many Pumpkins? Printable Activity Book A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10 for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy. |
 I See ... A Halloween Printable Activity Book A short, printable book about Halloween for early readers. The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, color and copy a short phrase. The pages are: I see a cat, bat, web, ghost, skull, witch, pumpkin, and skeleton. |
 Leaf Color Book A short book about colors to print for early readers, with pages for the student to color and write a short phrase. |
 Leaf Shape Book A short book about leaves to print, with pages on leaf anatomy, a maple maze, match the leaves, leaf facts, and leaf questions. |
 Pumpkin Patch: How Many? Printable Book A short, printable book about counting and adding fall items, including pumpkins, scarecrows, haystacks, leaves, apples, pies, webs and ears of corn. |
 Pumpkin Patch Perimeters: All Around the Farm Printable Book A short, printable book about perimeters, using pumpkin patch terms, including the perimeters of a pumpkin patch, chicken coop, pigpen, corn field, goat pen, horse corral, barnyard, and vegetable garden. |
 Pumpkin Patch: Subtracting Printable Book A short, printable book about subtracting fall items, including pumpkins, scarecrows, apples, ears of corn, webs, leaves, pies and haystacks. |
 Pumpkin Shape Book A short book about pumpkins to print, with pages on the pumpkin's life cycle, a pumpkin maze, draw a jack-o'-lantern, pumpkin facts, and pumpkin questions. |
 Pumpkin to Jack-O'Lantern Printable Activity Book A short, printable book about a pumpkin turning into a jack-o'lantern - for early readers. The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, color and copy a short phrase. The pages are about being big, orange, having a stem, 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, and being a jack-o'lantern. |
 The Scarecrow's Clothes A short book about clothes to print for early readers. The book has pages for the student to cut out, clothes to color, and a short phrase to copy. The clothes include pants, shirt, belt, hat, gloves, scarf, and umbrella. |
 Witch and Wizard Words Mini Book A Printable Writing Book A tiny, printable book about simple words related to witches and wizards -- for early readers and writers. The book has 2 pages to print and makes 8 pages for the student to cut out, color, and write in. The words are: witch, broom, wizard, ghost, web, cauldron, and "Can you think of another witch-related word?" |
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