Bird Nest Paper Plate Craft

For this you will need:

• Paper plate
• Felt
• Glue
• Paint (not shown)
• Feathers
• Hay
• Wool
• Scissors
• Brush

To make:

• Cut a bird shape out of a piece of fabric or felt

• Paint the top half of a paper plate to look like sky and glue on the felt bird

• Then apply lots of glue to the bottom half of the plate and add your nest materials. Hay, wool, feathers or something else you may have collected, perhaps seeds or grass
• Cut some egg shapes from the felt and glue into the nest.

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Easter Egg Card

For this you will need:

• 1 apertutre card or plain card


• Ruler
  
• Polystrene oval shape (avaible to buy from here)


• Decorations, jewels, paper, stickers


• Felt tips


• Glue


• Scissors
  

To make:

• Take one aperture card or make your own by cutting a square from the centre of a folded piece of card (grown up bit)
  

• Colour the oval shape using felt tip pens and decorate with jewels, glitter or stickers
  

• Decorate the front of the card
  

• Glue the egg shape to inside the card positioned so the egg appears through the window
  

Finished Easter Egg Card....just add a message!!

Frog Puppet

To make this you will need:

• Two paper plates


• Paint colours


• White paper


• Coloured card


• Stickers to decorate


• Glue


• Black pen


• Paint Brushes


• Sellotape


• Scissors
  

To make:

• First cut one paper plate in half and fold the other in half to create a crease


• Paint the whole plate a mouth colour such as pink or red


• Paint the two halves of the plate a body colour

• Put both plates aside to dry


• Draw two circles onto the white paper for eyes and cut them out


• Cut out two large eye socket shapes out of coloured card, then glue the eyes onto them

• Put two folds at the base of the eye sockets


• Cut a tongue shape out of the coloured card


• Once the paint is dry, sellotape the tongue to the inside of the frog mouth


• Using PVA glue, glue the two half plates to the full plate keeping wrong sides together


• Allow to dry


• Sellotape the two eyes to the cut edge of the half plate


• Decorate with stickers

Finished Frog!!

A is for Apple Collage

To make this you will need:

Red paper - tissue paper, magazine cuttings, sweet wrappers, card, any scraps of paper

Green felt tip or pencil

Outline drawing of an apple. Click here for pattern.

Glue

Scissors

To make:

• Cut or tear the paper into small random pieces
• Glue them inside the apple outline
• Colour the stalk and leaves green

Finished!! Mmmmmm.

Alternative: You could try other fruits, just change the colour of paper. Try b is for....banana, p is for.....pear, or o is for........orange.