Mailbox Arts and Crafts For All Seasons 5

Easter Pets

Materłalg For Each Chłld'-t hard-botled egg 1 screw-top from a soda bottle 1 cotton bali per bunny 1 piece of string. 4‘ in length per mouse construction-paper scraps black marker glue

Clasg PreparatJons:

Hard bcil an egg for each child and allow to cool. Have the children decide whether they are going to make a chick. a bunny. or a mouse. For each chick. cut an orange comb. two round blue eyes. and an orange triangle for the beak from construction paper For each bunny. cut two long brown ova!s for the ears. two round blue eyes. a black triangle tor the nose. a white square for the teeth. and black strips for whiskers. You also need a cotton bali tor the taił. For each mouse. cut two round brown ears. two round black eyes. one black nose, and black strips for whiskers.

You also need a 4* length of stnng for the taił.

Pirec+iohs:

t. To make a chick. glue the comb to the bigger end of an egg. Glue on the eyes and draw on black pupils, as shown. Glue on the orange tnangłe for a beak.

2. To make a bunny, glue the ears to the bigger end of an egg Glue on the eyes. nose, teelh. and whiskers. Draw pupils on the eyes and a linę down the square for two teeth. as shown. Glue a cotton bali to the back of the bunny to make a taił.

3. To make a mouse. glue the ears to the bigger end of an egg. Glue on the eyes whiskers. and nose. as shown Glue the taił to the back of the mouse.

■4. Balance your pet on an uptumed bottle top to display it. but don t eat the egg!