Wagon Wheel Handprint Fall Tree!

The theme this week is the color brown.
Project: Wagon Wheel Handprint Fall Tree - I traced Ty's forearm and hand onto white cardstock. He colored his hand and forearm print brown. Then he glued multi-colored wagon wheel pasta onto the tree with craft glue. Materials Needed: cardstock, brown crayon, multi-colored wagon wheel pasta, craft glue

Handprint Raccoon!

The theme this week is the color brown.
Project: Handprint Raccoon - The original idea for this craft is a raccoon puppet, but I didn't have any brown paper lunch sacks, so we just adapted the craft instead. I saw this idea in the October/November 2009 issue of The Mailbox Magazine
Directions: Trace each hand on black construction paper and trace a shoe print on brown construction paper. Cut out the tracings. Cut a front panel of a brown paper bag to size and glue it onto construction paper. Glue the hand and shoe print (the tail) cut outs to the paper bag. Then cut out simple eye, nose, and paw cutouts - I used black and brown construction paper. Glue the eyes, nose and paws onto the raccoon. Finally, draw stripes on the shoe cutout and other details on the raccoon.
Materials Needed: construction paper, black and brown construction paper, brown paper bag, scissors, glue stick, pencil, crayons/markers

Paper Bag Owl!

The theme this week is the color brown.

Project: Paper Bag Owl- Directions: I painted Ty's hands with brown paint and pressed his hands onto white paper. When the prints were dry, I cut the handprints out. Next, I trimmed a panel from a brown lunch bag and Ty glued it to a yellow piece of construction paper. Then, Ty attached yellow, sticky, foam hearts for eyes. He added black pupils on each eye with black marker. Then he glued orange, foam triangles for a beak and feet. Finally, he glued his painted handprints as wings for the owl. Materials Needed: yellow construction paper, brown paint, paint brush, white paper, scissors, brown lunch bag, yellow foam, orange foam, black marker, glue stick ***Source: The Mailbox Magazine October/November 2009***