This is a simple craft for preschool children about to begin school
or for young siblings of school age kids.
Materials:
lid (TOP) of an egg carton
yellow paint or markers
black construction paper or 2 lids from milk jugs (for wheels)
black marker
Optional: small cutouts of people from magazines, coloring books or
hand drawn
Instructions:
Cut the lid off an egg carton.
Paint (or color with marker) the lid yellow. We only used one coat,
but you could do two.
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.
OR
use the lids from milk jugs as an alternative to construction paper
wheels
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.
Once the paint is dry, glue on the wheels.
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.
Write SCHOOL along the top of the bus (or if your child is beginning to
write on their own, let them write it out).