DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Circle Polar Bear 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:  

• 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.  Brainstorm items in the household that are also circles (a plate for example)

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 circles of various sizes
    

Instructions:

• Glue the large white circle with the mouth on it to the blank large white circle.

• Glue the medium sized white circles (ears) to the top of the head.

• Glue the medium sized black circle (nose) on the muzzle (top of center)
    
• Glue the two small black circles (eyes) onto the head.