DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Shapes Peacock Paper Craft
Shapes, Scissor Skills, Colors, and Counting Practice
This craft can be used to teach a variety of skills. You don't have to use all the thoughts for lessons... just
choose the ones you're working on with your child.
There is a large version (3 templates) and a small version (1 template).
The large version is a better choice if you're trying to give the children practice with their scissor skills.
Materials:
- scissors,
- glue,
- printer,
- paper
Thoughts for Lessons:
SCISSOR SKILLS:
- This craft has lots of nice large shapes to cut out -- good scissor practice!
- You can precut the template into separate pieces (roughly) to make it a bit easier for beginning crafters to cut out the pieces.
SHAPES:
- have the children make a pile of all the shapes.
Brainstorm items in the household that are the same shape (a plate is a circle, for example)
colorS:
- verbally instruct the children on how to assemble the shapes
using the colors of the shapes. (ie: Take the blue oval and glue it on the green oval.).
SIZES:
- show the children two shapes and ask -- is this one bigger, smaller or the same size as that one.
COUNTING:
- Count the shapes.
- Count the shapes of separating them into piles of each type of shapes
- More/Less -- are there more ovals or more triangles?
which shape has the most pieces? which shape has the least pieces? (questions like that)
Assembly Directions:
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Glue the small circle as a head on top of the larger body circle.
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Glue the circle eyes and blue triangle to the head.
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Glue the triangle beak below the eyes.
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Glue the medium sized oval wings onto the sides of the body.
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Glue the triangle feet onto the bottom of the body.
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Glue the large colorful oval feathers onto the back of the body.
Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
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