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The Letter W Activity Theme - Arts and Crafts |
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Watermelon Fun Let the kids eat a piece of watermelon; have them save the seeds on a paper towel and then show them how to rinse them off. glue on the "W" made of heavy paper or cardboard. Wallpaper Cut out a "W" from wallpaper samples; or, use wallpaper sample 1x1 inch precut squares to fill up the W-shape. Walrus Use an uppercase "W" in white construction paper as the teeth of a walrus! Mini-Wheats Glue on frosted mini-wheats (cereal) onto the "W". The kids will love to eat this as a healthy snack! Wet W Use white cutouts of the letter for this project. Place as many little jars of colored water (use food coloring) as you can out for the children. Provide cotton swabs or cotton balls and tell the children to make their letter "W" all Wet (and beautiful!) Whiskers Give the kids chenille things ("pipe cleaners") and googly eyes, and lots of other imaginative doodads. Tell them to make a pet/monster/whatever that has Whiskers using the "W" anyway they want. Get fake fur remnants from a clothing or department store. Wheelbarrow Make a wheelbarrow from a laundry scoop and two black buttons/circles. add some dirt and and a gummy worm! Worm Use the "W" cutout from green or yellow construction paper as the worm body. Let the kids go crazy with finger paint, doodads, etc. You could even hide the worm in green grass (fringed green art paper)! Wood Sculptures Gather as much "odds and ends" wood as you can find. Make colored glue by mixing a little tempera paint (powder paint works too) with white glue. Cover your work table with plenty of newspaper. Give each child a cardboard base to work on. Let the children make wood sculptures. Use paint brushes with the colored glue. Let the children glue wood pieces together. The neat thing about this, is that the children don't have to paint the sculptures because the glue already has color in it and the children can see where they have put glue. The glue will keep for a couple of days if it is covered. Glue will wash out of paint brushes with hot water. Use many different colored glues at once. Wheelbarrow Planter Need: Laundry detergent scoop 2 plastic milk jug lids 6" length of ribbon potting soil flower seeds (seeds) craft glue water Glue a milk jug lid to each side of the scoop to form the "wheels". Allow the glue to dry. Tie the ribbon to the handle of the scoop. Fill the scoop with potting soil, and plant the seeds. Sprinkle the soil with a few drops of water. You can have the child make these planters as gifts. Water Paint Go outside on a warm summer day with a bucket of water and paint brushes. Let the children paint on the sidewalk with the clear water. The picture will stay for a while, but slowly dry away so they can start all over with another creation. Wallpaper Pictures Let the children cut out shapes and pictures from wall paper books. Have them glue their designs to construction paper. Wind Sock Children draw pictures/decorate a white 6 X 18 piece of paper. Cut tissue paper strips of different colors about 1" by 20" long. On the back of the drawing glue the strips so they hang down and move. Roll the paper in a circle and staple. Add a yarn hanger at the top and hang the windsocks around the room. When our windows are open and the wind blows the windsocks move with the breeze. Wheel Painting Pour small amounts of tempera paints in shallow containers. Give the children toy cars and pieces of construction paper. Let them run the wheels of their cars in the paint, then all across their papers to create designs. Wax Make candles with beeswax sheets. You can also do wax resist pictures for art. Let the children draw pictures using wax candles or wax blocks on finger paint or some kind of thick paper. Then, let the children use water paints to paint over their picture. The paint won't adhere to the wax and will make a neat open-ended art project. Paper Bag Whales Have children stuff small paper bags with crumpled sheets of newspaper.Tie the tops of bags to make the tail. Children then can paint the bags grey.Allow to dry.Cut out shapes for eyes (black) and glue to the sides of the whale. Water shapes can be cut from blue paper to make spouts of water coming from whale's blowhole. Watermelons dark green paper light green paper red paper black paint Cut a large watermelon shape out of dark green, cut one slightly smaller out of light green, and a still smaller red one. Glue these to resemble a slice of watermelon. Use black thumb prints on red part to represent seeds or use blacks circles from a hole punch and glue them on.
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