Free Grade School Crafts

Flower pot pen holder

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:33:43 +0000

Want to make an even better gift out of flower pens? How about putting them in a flower pot pen holder!

What You Need: Small terra cotta flower pot; dry beans; decorative ribbon; flower pens.
How You Make It: Fill pot about two-thirds full with dry beans from the supermarket. Tie a ribbon around the pot just below the rim. Stick the pens in and you have a great gift for home or office!

Egg carton black cat

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:00:40 +0000

These egg carton cats are fun to make for Halloween, or give them a more mellow look for year-round cat craft fun.

What You Need: 2 egg carton cups; black tempera paint; yellow construction paper; pink construction paper; black marker; 1/2 black pipe cleaner; glue; transparent tape.
How You Make It: Cut one egg carton cup leaving two sections protruding for ears. Cut other so there are four “leg” sections. Paint both egg carton pieces black and let dry. Cut out strips on yellow construction paper for eyes and whiskers and a pink triangle for a nose. Add pupil to eye with black marker. Glue to front of one egg cup, being sure to position “ears” how you’d like them. Glue cups together to form cat. (You may have to hold them while they dry.) Glue or tape on pipe cleaner for tail.

Ghost and pumpkin mobile for Halloween

admin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:30:46 +0000

Here’s a fun mobile that you can bring out as a Halloween decoration year after year. You can add more ghosts and pumpkins if you choose!

What You Need: Cotton balls; white and orange tissue paper; black marker; paper (or plastic) plate; yarn; black ribbon; green pipe cleaner and scissors.
How You Make It: Cut tissue paper into square of 3″ to 4″. Wrap tissue paper around a cotton ball and secure using 6″ to 8″ length of yarn. Over the yarn, tie black ribbon for ghosts and green pipe cleaner lengths for pumpkins. Use black marker to add eyes and mouths to ghosts and a face to the pumpkins if you want a jack o’ lantern look. Poke holes in paper plate and insert other end of yarn lengths, tying a knot to keep it there. Poke two more holes and and yarn to hang the mobile.

Peace pasta bracelet

admin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:32:01 +0000

What You Need: Peace sign-shaped pasta (by Annie’s in the natural foods section), food coloring, leather or faux leather cording, jump rings, zip-close plastic bags.

How You Make It: Place peace pasta in separate plastic bags and add food coloring. Make 3 or 4 colors. Let dry on newspaper and then on foil (so it won’t stick). Once dry, carefully pry open jump rings and loop one around top of each peace sign and reclose. String rings onto cording and tie cord to secure. Peace out!

Rock necklace

admin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:00:50 +0000

What You Need: Small rock, wire (we used 22-gauge), small pliers, plastic lacing or other cord-type material.

How You Make It: Wrap wire securely around rock in a decorative fashion, being sure to include a loop at the top for the cord. Cut off end of wire and tuck/wrap excess. String through cording and knot.

USA patriotic bottlecap pin craft for 4th of July

admin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:44:42 +0000

What You Need: Bottlecap, various sequins (star-shaped is fun), “U,” S,” and “A” letter beads, white glue, self-adhesive pinback.

How You Make It: Spread thin layer of glue in bottlecap. Arrange letters and sequins however you’d like. Fill rest of bottlecap with glue. Let dry overnight (glue will dry clear, or a little cloudy.) If glue looks uneven, add more and let dry again. You could also use a higher-end craft project called dimensional glue, which dries clear with a smooth surface.

Foam cup holder for Father’s Day

admin — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:18:48 +0000

Need a quick and easy gift for Dad? Buy a foam cup holder at a craft holder and poke some colored office brads into it in a decorative design. You could spell “Dad,” make a stick-figure person or anything else you’d like.
What You Need: Foam cup holder, colored office brads.

How You Make It: Carefully poke brads into foam in any design or shape you’d like. Reach inside the cup to fold the ends of the brads outward. That’s it!

Flower Pen Craft

admin — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:58:46 +0000

You may have seen these simple-but-cute flower-topped pens in use at offices or retail shops. While this is a project that requires a fair amount of adult help, it’s still fun for the preschooler to pick out pretty flowers and present the gift to Mom for Mother’s Day. You can make several pens and present them in a small terra cotta pot filled with beans, fishtank gravel, etc.

What You Need: ballpoint pen, fabric flowers and leaves, green floral tape, scissors.

How You Make It: select flower and leaves. Cut, with stem, about 2 inches long. Position flower at top of ballpoint pen. Holding securely, adult wraps floral tape (which sticks to itself but not other surfaces) around stem and the top 3 inches of the pen.