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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Buzzing Bugs Paper Plate Craft
You can mix and match all the different templates and paint your paper
plate to represent any color flower you like. There is a
handprint option!
Once your craft is complete, you'll have a number of figures that you
can buzz around your paper plate. Because we use a brass brad to
attach the templates, the children will be able to spin their bugs around their
flowers.
Materials:
- paper plate
- brass tab ("brass brad")
- sharp pencil or nail
- paint, paintbrush
- optional: markers
- optional: glue and construction paper
- optional: sponges (for sponge painting)
- scissors
- hole punch
- printer and paper
- something to color with (if using the B&W templates)
- optional: glue and thin cardboard (old cereal boxes work well)
or poster board -- makes the templates that go around the paper plate
a bit sturdier
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Viewer Suggestion: instead of a paper plate, trace a
plate onto a piece of cardboard or poster board and use that as the
center of the project.
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Instructions:
- Paint the "bottom" of your paper plate: your paper plate
has the side you'd eat from and the side you'd place on the table -- the
bottom is the side you'd place on the table
- use colors to represent the flower you're making
- use sponges to dab on complimentary colors and give texture to
your flower
- use a marker or darker color of paint to outline some petals on
the plate
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OR:
- paint your plate a base color (green is nice!),
- let dry and
- cut construction paper petals and glue them in circles around
the plate
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OR:
- paint your plate a base color (green is nice!),
- let dry and
- cut construction paper handprints and glue them in circles around
the plate
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- let dry
- poke a hole in the center of the plate with a nail or sharp pencil (adult
assistance)
- print out the template(s) of choice. There are a wide variety to
choose from!
- Optional: glue the template page onto thin cardboard (old cereal
boxes or poster board, for example) to make your creation sturdier.
- use the hole punch to punch a hole in the bottom of the template rectangle
- Color (B&W version) and cut out the templates
- push the brass brad through the paper plate and the templates you've
chosen.
- spin your bugs around your flower!
Printing the Template:
- 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).
Bumblebee template
(color)
or (B&W)
Butterfly template
(color)
or (B&W)
Dragonfly template (color)
or (B&W)
Fly template
(color)
or (B&W)
Ladybug template
(color)
or (B&W)
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