Pop Up Card
Pop Up Card
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EnchantedLearning.com Pop-up Flower Garden Card More Crafts Make a beautiful flower pop-up card using construction paper. This is a great Mother's Day, Spring, Get Well Soon, or Birthday Card.
Supplies needed:
Fold two rectangular pieces of construction paper in half. One piece will be the outside of the card and one piece will be the inside.
On the piece that will be the inside, cut two short lines near the middle of the fold.
Fold the two outside flaps that you just made (but do not fold the middle flap). Unfold the flaps.
Open the card. Push the two flaps towards the inside of the card - they will form 2 step-like protuberances.
Refold the card. Cut two short lines through the folded flaps on the sides. Fold the outside flaps that you just made. Unfold the flaps.
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Cut some small flowers, stems and leaves from construction paper. Decorate them with crayons or markers if you like.
Glue the flowers to the flaps. Make sure that the flowers do not stick out of the card when the card is closed.
Glue the card to the other piece of folded construction paper. To make sure that you do not glue the flaps down, apply the glue only to the inside of the card and then carefully place it on the outer card. Write a message on your lovely flower garden pop-up card.
Enchanted Learning Software's Handprint Paper Flowers Craft More Kinder Crafts These lilies are made from a child's handprint (on paper) stapled to a straw. You can make an entire bouquet of flowers for a great gift or Spring decoration. More Flower Crafts Supplies needed: Spring Crafts
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Using the palm of the handprint, form a cone (with the fingers curling outwards). Glue or tape the cone together. Staple the flower to a pipe cleaner or a drinking straw.
Draw some leaves on green construction paper, then cut them out.
Staple or tape the leaves to the straw. Make a few of these flowers for a beautiful bouquet.
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EnchantedLearning.com Aquarium Paper Plate Diorama Craft More Crafts This simple aquarium diorama is made from two paper plates, construction paper and a bit of clear plastic. The child cuts out fish, starfish, kelp, coral, and other sea creatures to decorate the seascape.
More dioramas Supplies needed: 2 white or blue paper plates A roughly 6 inch diameter circle of clear plastic cut from discarded packaging material (or clear plastic wrap for food) Colored construction paper or tempera paint Scissors and a craft knife (optional) Glue, tape, and stapler Crayons, or markers Thread ot yarn (about a foot total)
Work on the Top Plate (with a viewing window): Cut a Viewing Window: Turn one paper plate upside down and draw a circle around the base of the plate (you will cut out the entire bottom of the plate, the part of plate that you would normally put food on). This plate will become the viewing window of the aquarium. Cut along the circle you drew (have an adult start the cut with a pointy scissors or a craft knife; the child can finish the cutting using a blunt scissors).
Cover the Viewing Area With Plastic: Cut a circle of clear plastic slightly larger than the hole in the front plate (the plastic should be about 1/4 inch larger than the hole). You can use the thick plastic that is used as packing material on many of the things we buy (the thicker plastic is easier to work with than thin plastic film that can tear and stick to itself). Tape the plastic to the inside of the plate, where the food would normally be.
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Draw and Make Construction-Paper Plants and Animals for the Diorama: The plants and animals in your diorama can be drawn or cut out of construction paper. Kelp (green or brown) and brightly-colored coral are good for the background. Then, either draw or cut out paper fish, starfish, jellyfish, seahorses, sharks, whales, and/or other creatures for the foreground. You can draw them yourself, or go to a template with many ocean creatures. If you are drawing the fish yourself, you can use the following steps to draw them:
Go to a template for some sea creatures. Add the Construction-Paper Plants and Animals to the Diorama: Glue some of the creatures to the background. Others creatures can hang from threads so they look like they're swimming. For each hanging creature, cut a short length of thread. Tape one end of the thread to the back of a fish; tape the other end of the thread to the top of the plate.
Finish the Aquarium: Tape or staple the top plate to the back plate. Have the child write his/her name on the back of the aquarium. Now you have a cute paper plate diorama of an aquarium.
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EnchantedLearning.com Word Wheel - AKE Words This 2-page print-out makes a word wheel; it consists of a base page together with a wheel that spins around. The pages are attached using a metal Theme Pages brad. Rhymes When you spin the wheel, six words that rhyme with "ake" are formed, one at a time: rake, cake, bake, snake, flake, and lake. The student then writes down the words that are formed by the word wheel and six others with the same ending.
Word Wheels For a pdf version of the word wheel, click here (site members only).
Word Wheel Top Print this page. Cut out the circle and attach to the first page with a brad.
Word Wheel Bottom This is the base page of the printable "ake" word wheel.
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EnchantedLearning.com Farm Animals Word Wheel This 2-page print-out makes a farm animals word wheel; it consists of a base page together with a wheel that spins around. The pages are attached using a metal brad. When you spin the wheel, farm animals appear, including: cow, sheep, goat, chicken, horse, turkey, pig, goose. The student then writes down farm animals.
More Wheels For a pdf version of the farm animals word wheel, click here (site subscribers only). Or you can click on the individual web pages below.
Farm Animals Word Wheel Top Print this page. Cut out the circle and attach to the first page with a brad.
Farm Animals Word Wheel Bottom This is the base page of the printable farm animals word wheel.
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EnchantedLearning.com Book Diorama Craft More Crafts This diorama is a scene from a child's favorite book. After the child reads the book, the child makes a diorama of a favorite scene from the book. More dioramas. Supplies needed: Shoe box (or similar sized box) Construction paper or tempera paint Scissors Glue Pencil, crayons Small toys or models appropriate to the story
To make a background in the box use either construction paper or tempera paints (the construction paper is easier and less messy).
Add the character or characters to the diorama, along with the objects they have (if any). Glue them to the box. Or if you're showing things that fly or swim, hang them from the top using threads. For example, we did "Curious George Rides a Bike." The background was a stream in the country where Curious George the monkey is sailing newspaper boats down the stream (instead of doing his work delivering newspapers). We used a small, plastic LEGO monkey and made tiny paper boats from real newspaper.
Write the name of the book and its author on top of the box. Also have the child write his/her name on the box. Now you have a memorable reminder of a favorite book.
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An anagram is a word or phrase that is made by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For example, stop is an anagram of pots. The word anagram is pronounced AN-a-gram. Some groups of anagrams include: abets baste betas beast beats ales leas sale seal arm mar ram asps pass saps spas acres cares races scare anew wane wean arcs cars scar aridest astride staider tardies tirades bleats stable tables carets caters caster crates reacts recast traces dale deal lade lead deigns design signed singed diaper
abet beat beta alerted altered related treadle are ear era aspired despair diapers praised bared beard bread debar
acme came mace allergy gallery largely regally artist strait traits aster rates stare taser tears begin being binge
acre care race amen mane mean name arts rats star tars ate eat eta tea
alert alter later arches chaser search asp pas sap spa
aligned dealing leading arrest rarest raters starer assert asters stares
antler learnt rental ascot coats coast tacos awls laws slaw
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ears eras sear enlist inlets listen silent tinsel flow fowl wolf
emigrants mastering streaming esprits persist spriest sprites stripes gnus guns snug sung ideals ladies sailed
emoter meteor remote ester reset steer terse trees goer gore ogre
enters nester resent tenser forest fortes foster softer heros hoers horse shore lament mantel mantle mental
filter lifter trifle hares hears rheas share shear lame male meal
glare lager large regal hoes hose shoe lapse leaps pales peals pleas sepal lisper perils pliers
kale lake leak least slate stale steal tales teals loops polos pools sloop spool merit mitre remit timer notes onset stone tones parley
lopes poles slope merits mister miters mitres remits timers now own won parroted
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past pats spat taps pores poser prose ropes spore repaint painter pertain
rattles starlet startle restrain retrains strainer terrains trainers sinew swine wines wisens taster tetras treats
Apt Anagrams: Elvis lives fingertips finest grip asteroid threats disaster to earth rats and mice in cat's dream astronomers no more stars dormitory dirty room television ads enslave idiots meal for one for me alone a perfectionist I often practice action man cannot aim the eyes they see disc is cd my ideal time Immediately orators hate a sore throat school student tends to slouch I spared a spider A diet I'd eat I think therefore I am I fear to think I'm here coins kept in pockets debit card bad credit car has a crash young lad an old guy a gentleman elegant man astronomer moon starer certainly not can't rely on it
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