~Easy And Fun~

Take brown grocery bag and cut from middle of opening to bottom of bag, then cut circle in bottom of bag. Turn inside out. Cut holes on each side for arms. Fringe bottom. Color with crayons, write Indian name on back.

Use colored construction paper strips looped and glued or stapled together. You could also decorate the strips before putting them together (markers, paints, glitter, stamps).

1. Trace outlines of the your hand on paper.

2. Cut out hand shapes

3. Using a pencil, roll the fingers up so that they curl up.

4. Curl the handshape vertically into a sort of trumpet/lily shaped cylinder with the finger curls curling outwards.

5. Staple the flower onto a drinking straw, along with cutout leaves.

Four or five of these make a nice bouquet.

String colored macroni onto lengths of yarn for necklaces.

Glue differnt things like feathers, macaroni, sparkles, etc onto strips of contruction paper to make headbands.

On sections of cardboard of about 8"x8" glue/build houses out of small blocks of wood that someone had gathered at a building site and cut into different sizes.

Buy a bunch of sponges and cut them into shapes like triangles butterflies etc. Dip them into paint and press them onto to paper.

Get the curling ribbon in multi colors, then cut certain lenths of it then tape it onto straws , for magic wands.

You cut out butterflies, fish, dinasaurs, etc and get a bunch of tongue depressors. Then color the animals and use glue sticks/glitter. Finally you stick them on the tongue depressors and you can use them for a "puppet" show.

Tambourines out of paper plates w/double sticky tape along the edges and dried beans inside. Use a paper punch along the outside edges and thread ribbons through them. You can color the tambourines before they are assembled. This segues well into sing-along time.

Shred and tear up colored paper and ribbon and paper punch some too. Get a small clear acrylic frame and press the paper scraps between the frame and the cardboard backing. Everyone's is different and can be changed for another look.

Make your own "town" out of appliance boxes. Paint and color the exterior, a little each day.

If you have a long roll of paper, you can trace your friend and then you can draw yourselves in.

Buy a painter hat get markers, plain and coloured glue, sparkles, feathers, stickers, etc. Its fun and you get a hat to take home.