Mailbox Arts and Crafts For All Seasons 2

Fly Away

Hide-And-Seek Card

Materials For Cach Child:

1 sheet of 9* x 12* cotored construction paper.

cut in two pieces, one with egg outline white tempera paint and paintbrush chenille chick or chick sticker glue

Cla99 Preparation9:

For each child, cut two rectangles from a sheet of construction paper. Make one rectangle 4'/s* x 12* and the other 4'fc* x 10’ Use the patiem on page 91 to draw a large egg on the longer piece of construction paper Have scissors ready.

Materials For Cach Child:

1    tagboard bird body and 2 tagboard wings

2    wiggie eyes

1    brass fastener

2    feathers

a length oł narrow nbbon tempera pamts and paintbrushes glue

Class Preparations:

Use tbe pattern on the opposite page to cut out a tagboard bird body and two wings for each chiid. Have tape ready.

Plrectlons:

t. Paint some patterns on one s«de of the bird body and wings. Altów to dry. then pamt the other sides. Alk>w to dry.

2.    Glue feathers on the bird to make a tali.

3.    Glue on wiggie eyes.

•4. Place a wmg on each side of the body and push a brass fastener through to secure. O 5- Tape a piece of ribbon to the bird s back to hang it up. O

Pirectior>9:

1. Paint the egg white.

■£. Fold back each end of the paper wrth the egg pamtmg to make a tlap about 1* wide O ■3. Cut the egg in half in a zigzag O *4. Glue a chenille chick or sticker in the midóle of the smaller piece of construction paper.

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