Circle Black Panther 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 you'll need:  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 red circle and glue it on the black 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

Assembly Directions: 

• Glue the small red circle into the center of one of the medium black circles.
• Glue the medium grey circle onto the medium black circle.
• Glue the large black circle under the medium grey circle.
• Glue two of the medium black circles on either side of the nose/mouth (grey and black) circles
• Glue the other two medium black circles onto the top of the head.
• Glue the two small green circles (eyes) onto the head.

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)