Welcome to the month of April! Happy April Fool's Day, Easter, Passover, Earth Day and National Poetry Month! If it's Easter, it's a nice time to decorate eggs and enjoy some peeps! The Spring is a good time to learn about the life cycle of a frog and other creatures. It's also a time to sing in the rain!
Let's spring into the month of April like an Easter bunny!
Bunny with Bushy Nose and Tail!
Supplies: Pastel colored construction Paper, fabric, one big pom pom, one small pom pom, google eyes, glue/tape and crayons/markers.
Instructions:
1. Cut a thick strip of paper from construction paper of a pastel or Spring color. The paper should be in the Shape of a long rectangle. Attach the ends together so that the strip folds into a circle. This will be the body of the bunny.
2. Cut out two heart shapes of the same color and turn them upside down. Cut off the pointy bottom tip of each heart.
3. After you decide which side of the circle is the bottom and which side is the top, attach one upside down heart onto the bottom of the circle and color in paw marks. This will be the feet of the bunny.
4. Attach a large pom pom onto the back of the circle. This will be the bunny's cotton tail.
5. Cut out two bunny ear shapes and attach them onto the top back of the other upside down heart. This will be the head/face of the bunny.
6. Draw a face onto the bunny and attach a small pom pom onto the center of the face for the nose. Attach google eyes onto the face or draw eyes on if you don't have google eyes.
7. Cut two small pieces of fabric in the shape of tear drops and attach onto each ear to make the ears feel soft.
8. Attach the head, face onto the top front of the bunny.
Enjoy the bunnies below created by the children at the library!
I see some peeps in the windows! They are in the colors of paradise!
Peeps in Paradise!
Supplies: One letter sized piece of light blue card stock, smaller pieces of card stock in bright or pastel colors, small strips of green paper, a strip of brown paper, a small piece of yellow paper or card stock, beige card stock, blue tissue paper, crayons/markers and glue/tape.
Instructions to follow later!
It's time to see some eggs hatching!
Hatchimals!
Supplies: Card stock in bright colors, 2 googly eyes, one small piece of pipe cleaner, crayons/markers, glue/tape and 2 small strips of regular paper.
Instructions:
1. Cut out an egg shape from card stock. Draw a design on one side of the egg shape.
2. Cut the egg shape in half from side to side and cut in a zigzag way so that the egg shape looks like it's a cracked egg.
3. Cut out a round chick shape from card stock of a different color. Draw a face and design on the chick shape. Attach googly eyes onto the chick shape. Attach a pipe cleaner onto the top of the chick's head to resemble an antennae. The chick is supposed to resemble the "Hatchimal" toy.
4. Attach the chick shape onto the back of the bottom half of the egg shape. Make sure the front face and some of the upper body is sticking up enough from the egg half to be visible.
5. Bend 2 small strips of paper into loops and glue/tape the ends of each loop together. You should have 2 paper loops.
6. Attach one loop onto the back of the top half of the egg shape. Attach the other loop onto the bottom of the egg half. You should be able to slide your thumb through the loop on the bottom half of the egg and your index finger through the loop on the top half of the egg. Open and close the thumb and index finger to make it seem as if the egg hatches and the chick or "Hatchimal" hatches from the egg.
Enjoy the "Hatchimal toys below created by the children at the library!
I love those marshmallow peeps! They are such bright colors!
Peeps in Paradise!
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring!
Paper Umbrellas!
Supplies: One half of a paper plate, card stock, tissue paper, cotton, stickers, string, scissors, glue/tape and crayons/markers.
Instructions:
1. Cut a paper plate in half and discard one of the halves.
2. Cover the half of the plate in tissue paper that you'll use for the craft. This will be the top of the umbrella.
3. Cut out a cane shape from card stock and attach onto the bottom of the umbrella half. Now your umbrella has a handle.
4. Cut out 2 pieces of string. Cut out a few rain drop shapes from card stock. Attach the rain drops onto the strings and attach each string onto the bottom of the umbrella top. Now you have rain drops falling.
5. Decorate the paper umbrella with cotton, stickers and anything else of your preference.
6. If you wish, you can fold a small strip of paper into a circle and attach the ends together to make a paper cuff. You can attach the cuff onto the back of the umbrella and slide a finger or 2 through the cuff to hold the umbrella like a puppet.
Enjoy the paper umbrellas below created by the children at the library!
April Showers Bring May Flowers!
Let's enjoy the gardens! How about a giggle garden to lighten up the day?
Instructions:
1. Cut out a rectangle or square shape from brown paper and a slightly smaller rectangle or square shape from green paper.
2. Glue or tape the green paper on top of the brown paper. Now you have the grass growing from the soil.
3. Color in a few paper flower shapes. Decorate with stickers and googly eyes.
4. Cut out some small strips of green paper. Bend each green strip into a zig zag shape.
5. Attach a flower on one end of a zig zag strip and attach the other end onto the paper grass. Repeat this for each flower.
6. If you wish, attach fake grass onto the green paper around the flowers.
Enjoy the giggle gardens below created by the children at the library!
After enjoying some rain and gardens, it's time to think about protecting the earth.
We've got the whole world in our hands!
Supplies: One paper plate, blue tissue paper, green tissue paper, neutral colored card stock, glue/tape, markers/crayons, stickers, scissors and glitter foam shapes.
Directions:
1. Wrap a paper plate in blue tissue paper.
2. Cut out smaller pieces of green tissue paper and attach them onto the plate onto the blue tissue paper. This will be the Earth and the continents.
3. Attach stickers onto the paper Earth, either onto the continents or the oceans. The stickers can be any kind that you would like to use. It's your own world!
4. Cut out 2 hand shapes from light colored or brown card stock and color in finger nails, sleeves, watches, etc.
5. Attach the 2 hands at the bottom of the plate to make it seem as if the world is in the hands.
6. If you wish, cut out a small rectangle from glitter foam sheets and attach onto one of the hands as a ring or bracelet.
Enjoy the worlds in hands below created by the children at the library!
After celebrating from Earth Day, it's a good time to learn about different creatures and their life cycles. What does a frog look like when it's a baby?
The life cycle of a frog book!
Supplies Needed: Construction paper, images of frogs, an image of a tadpole, an image of a frog let, an image of frog eggs, scissors, crayons/markers, glue/tape and stickers.
Instructions:
1. Cut out half of a sheet of construction paper and make sure the paper is a rectangle shape.
2. Fold the paper into 4 different zigzag sections. Now you have an accordion book. Decide which end of the accordion book you would like to use for the title. Using crayons/markers, write in a title of the book, such as "The Life Cycle of a Frog".
3. Cut out lily pads from green construction paper and attach to the sections of the book.
4. Cut out square shapes from blue construction paper and attach onto some of the pages if you wish to have some sections of water for the tadpoles to swim in.
5. Cut out an image of frog eggs or you can draw them too. Attach the frog eggs onto one of the sections at one end.
6. Attach an image of a tadpole and attach onto the next section.
7. Attach an image of a frog let and attach onto the next section.
8. Attach pictures of frogs onto the rest of the sections.
9. Using crayons/markers, color in the tadpole, frog let and frogs. Color in any fauna/flora or anything else in nature that you would like to include in the book.
10. You may embellish the pictures with stickers if you wish.
Enjoy the frog cycle books below created by the children at the library!
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