Pokeball Pocket Craft

Thanks to Melanie for contributing this idea!  She wrote:  

Right now my boys are huge into Pokemon, the original series (that's what we get for getting videos from the public library that are 10 years old). They love to pick out their pokemon and color them themselves and cut them out and battle with them. I made Poke balls for them to keep them in, thought I'd send along a picture. It's a paper pocket made from a whole white circle and a half red circle, with the black stripe glued to the red half.   Melanie

 

Materials:

bulletpicture of a pokemon (they can draw it themselves or you can use the coloring pages (large) or pokemon journal images (smaller) to color in)
bulletwhite cardstock or paper
bulletred cardstock or paper
bulletblack cardstock or paper
bulletcircle shape to trace (lunch sized plate, margarine container lid, etc) -- the circle must be larger than your pokemon picture.
bulletscissors
bulletglue
bulletstapler
bulletsomething to color with

 

Instructions:

bulletcolor and cut out your pokemon picture
  
bullettrace a circle onto the white paper and cut it out
  
bullettrace a circle onto the red cardstock.
bulletCut it out.  
bulletCut this circle in half.  
bulletDiscard half.
  
bulletCut a thin strip of black paper and glue it on the straight edge of the red half circle.
  
bulletCut a small black circle and glue it in the center of the black paper strip.
  
bulletStaple the rounded edge of the red half circle to the white circle to make a pokeball with a pocket.  Do NOT put any glue along the straight edge.
  
bulletSlide your pokemon into the pocket.