 | cut the lid off an egg carton
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| Paint (or color with marker) the lid yellow. We only used one coat,
but you could do two.
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| While the paint is drying, cut 2 circles out of black construction
paper
 | (you can have the children trace the lid from a baby food jar or
orange juice container -- preschool kids enjoy tracing). Use white
crayon, chalk or pencil crayon for tracing. |
| Allow the children to cut out their circles with safety scissors (or
supervise them closely while they use regular scissors). |
| The wheels don't have to be perfectly round -- let them have fun. |
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| OR
| use the lids from milk jugs as an alternative to construction paper
wheels
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| OPTIONAL: Also while the paint is drying, have the children cut
small images of people from magazines or coloring books or let them draw
their own.
| once again, let the children roughly cut out the images with safety
scissors.
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| Once the paint is dry, glue on the wheels.
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| OPTIONAL: Glue the images of people onto the bus. The carton
we used had holes down the center, so we glued the people into the
holes.
| If yours doesn't have holes, just glue the people onto the bus... you
can draw "windows" around them with a black marker.
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| Write SCHOOL along the top of the bus (or if your child is beginning to
write on their own, let them write it out). |
