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 shapes 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, a pile of all the ovals and a pile of all the triangles.

COLORS:

• verbally instruct the children on how to assemble the shapes using the colors of the shapes.  (ie:  Take the orange circle and glue it on the brown oval.).

SIZES:

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

COUNTING:

• Count the circles/triangles/ovals

Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice.
• Color the template pieces (if using the B&W version).
• Cut out the template pieces (young children may need help with this step).
• Glue the owl together:
  • Glue small oval onto the larger oval so the bottoms line up
  • Glue the large triangle onto the large oval so the tops line up
  • Glue the small triangle (beak) and eyes onto the owl
  • Glue the centers of the eyes on
  • Glue the two medium sized circles onto the bottom as feet

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).

Template   color  or   B&W