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Circle Pink Panther 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.

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

pink panther shapes practice craft

Thoughts for Lessons:

SCISSOR SKILLS:

bulletThis craft has lots of nice large circles to cut out -- good scissor practice!  
bulletYou can precut the template into separate pieces (roughly) to make it a bit easier for beginning crafters to cut out the circles.

SHAPES:

bullethave the children make a pile of all the circles.  Brainstorm items in the household that are also circles (a plate for example)

COLORS:

bulletverbally 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 pink circle.).

SIZES:

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

COUNTING:

bulletCount the circles.
bulletCount the circles of various sizes
  
bulletGlue the medium black circle onto the large pink circle.
  
bulletGlue the medium white circle under the medium black circle.

pink panther shapes practice craft

bulletGlue two of the medium pink circles on either side of the nose/mouth (black and white) circles

pink panther shapes practice craft

bulletGlue the other two medium pink circles onto the top of the head.

pink panther shapes practice craft

bulletGlue the two small black circles (eyes) onto the head.
pink panther shapes practice craft

 
bulletClose the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
   
bulletSet 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  (color)   or   (B&W)

 

Printable version of these instructions