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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Paper Bag Phoenix Craft
This phoenix is a simple puppet craft that is fun for young children to
make. It makes a great project for preschool and kindergarten kids
and works well with various fantasy books or a Greek mythology theme.
Materials Needed:
- a paper lunch bag
- red paint or red paper
- a printer,
- some crayons,
- scissors
- glue,
- paper for the printer
Optional:
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| What is the Phoenix?
In Greek mythology, the phoenix was a bird that lived
in Arabia. Each morning the phoenix would awake and bath in a well
near its roost. While it bathed, it sang a beautiful song that the
sun god Apollo stopped to hear each dawn before he drove his sun chariot
across the sky.
According to the myth, only one phoenix existed on
earth at a time. When it grew old, the phoenix would build a nest of
myrrh. The phoenix would settle its tired, aging body into the
center of the nest which would burst into flames when the sun rose.
The phoenix would be consumed by the flames and from the ashes of the
ancient bird, a new phoenix would be reborn. |
PRINT THE TEMPLATE:
- Print out the template of choice (color or b&w)
- Colour (as required) and cut out the template
pieces.
GET FAMILIAR WITH YOUR PAPER BAG:
- I'm going to walk through this slowly. Look at
your paper bag.
- It should be closed and flat like a piece of
paper. Just like when they are brand new.
- On one side, it's all smooth. This will be the BACK of your puppet
- It's important that all the kids get the back
and front straight at the beginning!
- On the other side there's a flippy tab (which is
typically the bottom of the bag when you're carrying your lunch around...)
- This flippy tab will be the HEAD
- Lift the flippy tab up a bit. Underneath of the
tab will be the mouth,
- When the child puts her hand in the bag,
she'll be able to make the puppet talk.
- Look at the rest of the front of the bag. (The
3/4 or so of the bag below the part with the flippy tab) This will be the
BODY.
- Look at the sides of the bag. There should be a
FLAP of paper.
- We'll be slipping the wings into this flap.
- If the kids goof and glue the wings onto the
front or back of the bag, it isn't a big deal.
- OK, now that we're comfy with our bags, let's
craft!
Assemble your puppet:
- Cover the
FLAP of the paper bag with white paper (just
glue it on and trim) or paint it white and let dry.
- Glue the feather tuft to the top of the HEAD
- Glue the eyes onto the HEAD
just under the feathers. If you like, you can use wiggly eyes instead of
the paper template pieces.
- Glue the beak under the eyes.
It will likely hang down over a little bit of the
BODY. Make sure you just put glue on top of
the beak (where it touches the HEAD) so you don't end up
gluing the mouth shut.
- Glue the wings into the FLAP.
- Glue the feet onto the bottom of the
BODY
- Glue the tail onto the BACK.
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).
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