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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
The Four Food Groups Mobile
When making the craft, plan a meal with your child that has all
four food groups. Talk about what their favorite foods in
each group might be (you can write the favorites on the appropriate
template piece if you so desire). March is nutrition month,
so that is a good time to try out this craft.
Materials:
- a printer,
- a piece of paper... I always prefer to use a heavy paper
(like construction paper), but it isn't necessary.
- some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
- scissors,
- glue,
- string or yarn.
EITHER
- small paper plate or circle of cardboard (old cereal boxes
are a good source of cardboard) AND two straws or sticks
OR
- a paper towel roll
OR
- an ice cream pail lid and hole punch
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Instructions:
- Print out the template of choice. You can print out as many
as you want to fill up your mobile.
- Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces along
the dotted lines.
- Fold the template pieces in half and glue the back and front together.
Let dry.
- Poke a small hole in the top of each piece and tie with yarn or
string to the mobile you've chosen
Paper Towel Roll Mobile:
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Decorate your paper towel roll as desired:
You can use paint, paper, stickers, etc to match your theme.
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string each mobile piece from the paper towel
roll
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Put a piece of string or wool right through
the paper towel roll to use to hang from the wall or ceiling
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(this isn't this theme, but the method works the
same)
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Criss Cross Straws Mobile:
- You can let the kids decorate the circle/paper plate with
paint, markers or stickers.
- Poke a hole through the center of the paper plate or circle
of cardboard
- Arrange the straws in an X shape and tie with wool
- Tie a long piece of wool to the center of the X. Slide
the circle of cardboard or paper plate onto the wool (through
the hole you made)
- Tape the straws to the plate to keep them in their X shape
and to help them balanced
- String each mobile piece onto one of the straws (and in
the center if desired)
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(this isn't this theme, but the method works the
same)
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Lid Mobile:
- Decorate your lid as desired: You can use paint, paper,
stickers, etc to match your theme.
- Use a hole punch or sharp pencil to poke holes all the way
around the lid at equal distances (you need as many holes as
you have mobile pieces
- String each mobile piece onto one of the holes you've made
- String another piece of yarn from each of the holes, going
up to the ceiling. Tie all of these pieces together to
make a knot you can hang your mobile with.
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(this isn't this theme, but the method works the
same)
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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).
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