This is a fun and easy cut and paste paper craft that uses different shapes to make a Mardi Gras Jester.

Materials:

• toilet paper tube,
• a printer,
• a piece of paper,
• something to color with,
• scissors,
• glue

Thoughts for Lessons:

SCISSOR SKILLS:

• This craft has lots of simple 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 shapes.

SIZES:

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

COUNTING:

• Count the circles and the triangles.

Instructions:

• Print out the template -- there is a small picture of the finished craft on the template that will help with the assembly.
• If using the B&W template, color the pieces.
• Cut out the template pieces.
• Glue the small circle eyes and circle nose onto the large circle head.
• Glue the right angle triangles onto either side of the rectangle so the right angles of the triangles line up with the right angles of the rectangle.
   
  
• Glue the last triangle into the center of the Jester hat.
   
  
• Glue the smallest circles onto the top points of the Jester hat.
• Glue the jester hat 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