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This is a fun Kindergarten Craft that is also a great Kindergarten learning game!  You can make it red and white and give it as a gift for Valentine’s Day!  You’ll need to collect some water bottle caps or soda caps for a bit as the markers.

Supplies:

• Cardstock Paper 11×8
• Ruler
• 12 caps
• Crayons
• Pencil/Black Marker

Steps:

1. Use ruler to mark a space for a square with 6 squares across (1 inch wide) and 6 squares high
2. Then use the ruler to draw the lines.
3. Have your child color every other square.
4. If your caps are different not different colors, color one  set a different color, or put stickers on them.

Teach your child how to play checkers, and have fun!!!

This is a terrific Kindergarten Craft to work on with your kids.  It’s quite simple to create and they can make the dog in any way or colors they like.

Supplies:

• Toilet Paper roll
• Felt, a few different colors.
• Scissors
• Tacky Glue
• Pen

Steps:

1. Measure Felt against Toilet paper roll and cut a rectangle that will cover the roll
2. Glue the Felt on the roll
3. Draw on the felt 2 dogs ears, the shape of the dogs face and tail
4. Cut out Ears, Face and Tail
5. Glue the Ears Face and Tail to the paper towel roll
6. Cut out little white circles from felt and smaller, little blue or brown circles for the eyes (or use googly eyes) Glue these on.
7. Cut a piece of black or brown felt in a small circle for the nose (you can use a small pom pom as well)
8. You can add things like a bow or collar as you like.  Perhaps give the dog spots!

Have fun!

This is a great Kindergarten Craft activity for kids, it’s simple, uses recycling material and is inexpensive! Creating these mini-greenhouses with your kids is a great way to teach them about the plants growth cycle. They can watch every step and start to understand what it is that makes plants grow.

I thought I would write a few posts about some of the fun crafty gifts my kids got!  As you have probably guessed we love to do crafty things and this year they got a few great kindergarten craft kits for the holidays!  These are NOT paid reviews, they are products I thought were really fun and wanted to share.

The Kindergarten Craft kit I want to share today is the Martian Matter -Alien Maker.  It’s a really fun set that my kids have spent hours and hours with.  It comes with everything it needs and no batteries are required (yeah!).  It is really simple, after taking my kids through it  a few times both my 4 and 7 year old could play with it independently.

To create the Aliens, you push dough in the alien maker (it’s like play dough) and pick your alien’s head and body.  Then you push it down to cause an imprint.  After you create your imprint, you pick colors of “lunar Lava” to pour into your Alien imprint.  Then you put a thin layer of dough on top of your alien and in 5 minutes it is dry and ready to play with.  It is great that the kids can create all different types of aliens in varying colors. The set comes with multiple alien heads and bodies to switch around.   The kids love it!

My daughter made this at preschool and I thought is was so cute I wanted to share it.  It’s a fun decoration that is pretty easy for a kindergarten or preschool child to make.  It makes a great gift for kids to make.  I love Kindergarten crafts that can  be gifts too!!

Supplies:

• 2 Bells
• Ribbon
• Shiny string
• Pipe cleaner
• Glue
• Scissors
• Decorative Leaf or Flower

Steps:

1. Shape Pipe cleaner into circle
2. Cut Ribbon and String to equal lengths
3. Tie one end of string through bell (do this for each bell)
4. Tie other end of string to Pipe Cleaner Circle
5. Glue Ribbon to Pipe Cleaner
6. Glue Decorative leaf or flower over spot where you glued ribbon on pipe cleaner
7. Let it dry.

This can also double as a noise maker for the new year!!  Happy New Year!!  Have fun!!