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Craft Ideas - Grade School
MAKE YOUR OWN STICKERS
With this solution, you can turn magazine pictures,
wrapping paper motifs or your own creations into stickers. All you need is
11 teaspoons of flavored Jell-O and 2 teaspoons of boiling water.
1. Pour boiling water on Jell-O
and stir until dissolved.
2. Let mixture cool 1 minute.
3. Brush a thin coating onto the
back of each cutout.
4. When dry, your kids can lick 'em
and stick 'em just like real stickers!
KEEPSAKE
Make a memento to keep forever or to give to
grandparents or other family members. All you need is 2 cups of flour, 1/2
cup of salt and 3/4 cup of warm water.
1. Mix all ingredients together
in a bowl. Dough needs to be a good sugar cookie dough consistency.
(If you'd like a finished product with a little more pizzazz, you can add the
food coloring of your choice at this stage.)
2. Roll into about 1 inch
thickness.
3. Cut our heart shapes (or
whatever shape you'd like) then imprint with child's hand or foot.
4. Bake at 325 degrees for about
one hour.
5. Remove from oven when hard.
6. When cool, you can decorate
however you wish.
PUDDING POTS
Supplies: large bowl; small terra cotta pots; scissors; wax paper; instant
chocolate pudding;
milk; Oreos or generic chocolate sandwich cookies; gummi worms; construction paper;
glue; green plastic spoons; whisk; rolling pin; Ziploc baggies; crayons (optional)
1. You'll need one small terra cotta pot for each child
2. Each pot needs to be lined w/ wax paper--cut the wax paper into the appropriate size of circle,
then cut slits into it so that the edges will overlap when placed into the pot, allowing the inside of the
pot to be covered w/out any folding or wrinkling of the wax paper
3. Make the instant chocolate pudding--can be done w/ a whisk by the children
if they're old enough.
4. Fill each of the lined terra cotta pots about 2/3 (or a little less) of the way w/ the chocolate pudding, put in the
 fridge
to set.
5. Remove the cream filling from your cookies. Take the cookie part put in
Ziploc baggies and crush w/ a rolling
pin - the kids will love this part!
6. Remove pudding pots from the fridge and fill remainder of each pot w/ your
"cookie soil." Fill almost to the top.
7. Place a gummy worm in each pot so that it looks like the worm is just crawling out of the dirt to take a look around.
8. Cut out several construction paper flowers. They can be colored if the children so desire. Then glue a flower onto the end of each green spoon handle.
9. Stick a green spoon (spoon side down) into each pot so that the spoon looks like the stem to the flower on its end. (The
spoons are also then used for the eating portion of the project.)
10. Serve and enjoy!
HOMEMADE LEMONADE
Supplies: sugar, water, lemons, manual juicer, pitcher
1. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice out--one of those manual juicers that has the cone-shaped grooved things
on top--makes the squeezing much easier, something a child can do
2. Mix one part sugar to two parts lemon juice to six parts water. (i.e. 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup lemon juice, 3 cups water or 1cup sugar, 2 cups lemon juice, 6 cups water, etc.)
More/less sugar and water can be added to taste. Variation--if squeezing the lemons isn't possible, you can just buy a jar of lemon juice and use that instead.
3. Serve w/ or w/out ice according to age and preference.
Lemon juice can sting if kids get it on them during the squeezing process, and they would need to wash their hands afterwards so they don't get the juice in their eyes.
STUFFED ANIMAL WREATH
If your child has more stuffed animals than (s)he knows what to do with--and if they're in more places than YOU
 know what to do with, turn them into a
wreath. Go to your local arts/crafts store and purchase a plain straw wreath in the appropriate size. Use floral wire (also found at the arts and
crafts store) to tie the stuffed animals to the wreath. If many of the stuffed animals are the same color and you want to add variety get some
colored ribbon to tie around the stuffed animals (bow ties and such) or to inter-weave into the entire project. When done, you'll have an adorable
wall-memento and your child won't feel that (s)he's had to give anything up!
(From Parents, June 2000, page 30)
Etched Pictures - very easy.
WHAT YOU NEED: Crayons, the brighter the better and definitely
a black one, plain white paper, a penny or Popsicle stick.
On the plain white piece of paper take one bright color, start in the top corner, and color a
piece of that in a diagonal. Take another color and do the same thing right underneath it etc.. So essentially you are making a
rainbow in a diagonal form. After the sheet is completely colored, take the black crayon and color over it. Make sure none of the color is showing. (you
should press pretty hard.) After that is done take the penny or Popsicle stick and peel some of the black off in designs that the children want or
can do themselves. They will make beautiful pictures that they can give to their parents.
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