A fun craft activity for kids is to make fridge magnets out of bottle caps. If you don’t have any bottle caps lying around, you can go to the grocery store and find drinks with bottle caps, and buy the drinks. Then cut small circles of paper that would fit into the bottle cap. We used markers to decorate the papers. You can glue the small circles of paper onto bottle caps with white school glue. Then put strips of magnet on the back. If you want all the materials in one place, you can get a bottle cap art kit. The circle papers are stickers, which makes it easier for the kids to stick on after they’ve drawn their picture. My kids enjoyed making these fridge magnets.
Watch me as I make some fun confetti eggs. You will need egg shells with a hole on the top. (I’ll show you how to do that.) You will also need colorful tissue paper in bold primary colors, scissors, and Elmer’s glue. Make sure you have confetti and a funnel to pour the confetti more easily into the eggs. Here is a video demonstration on how to make the confetti eggs:
These crazy Dr Seuss hats can be made by children of any age. You could decorate a green one for Saint Patrick’s Day. Many stores sell them for one dollar around Saint Patrick’s Day, so they don’t cost much. You will also need a hot glue gun and craft supplies that you can find around your house.
Make sure that an adult is present to use the hot glue gun. Let your children decide where they want to put each item. My daughter made a nest on the top of her Dr Seuss hat, and put some fake birds into it. Then she made a face on the main part of the hat with pom poms and pipe cleaners. She added some butterflies.
My oldest son stuck some feathers to his hat, adding a face and placing pom poms around the entire edge of the hat. His one was green and looked the most like a St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun hat. Now all he needs is a rainbow and a pot of gold. And he needs to be short and stubby and chew on some clover leaves. Yes.
Next up is the crazy Dr Seuss hat that was orange and red. I could hardly look at it without going blind from the clashing colors. My son hot glued all kinds of plastic animals and other nonsense to his hat. As you can see, he is crossing his eyes in the picture, adding to the jovial nature of the picture. (He doesn’t normally look that frieky.)
Last but not least, my youngest son made a face and hot glued a big pom pom to the front of his Dr Seuss hat. We also sewed a twirly propeller-type thing to the top. We picked it up at a dollar store the day before we made these crazy Dr Seuss hats.
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