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.

Materials you'll need:  scissors, glue, printer, paper

Thoughts for Lessons:

SCISSOR SKILLS:

• This craft has lots of nice large circles 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 circles.

SHAPES:

• have the children make a pile of all the circles and a separate pile of all the squares.

COLORS:

• verbally instruct the children on how to assemble the shapes using the colors of the shapes.  (ie:  Take the black circle and glue it on the white circle.).

SIZES:

• show the children two circles and ask -- is this one bigger, smaller or the same size as that one.

COUNTING:

• Count the circles, count the squares

Assembly Directions:

• Glue the two largest brown circles, slightly overlapping, on top of each other (sort of like a figure 8).
• Glue the small, light brown circles (ear centers) onto the small, dark brown circles.  Glue the ears onto the top of the head.
• Glue the two square teeth just towards the bottom of the bottom circle.
• Glue the two next largest brown circles, on top of the first two to make a muzzle.  (This time, sort of like a tipped over figure 8).

• Glue the two eyes and the small black circle (nose) onto the head.

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).

Template 1 (print two copies)    (color)   or   (B&W)

Template 2   (color)   or   (B&W)

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