Ideas for Parents

This craft is inspired by the book Dandelion by Don Freeman, a book about a lion who nobody recognizes!

For this craft, you will use brown and yellow construction paper to make a lion puppet that is perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners.

Materials:

Directions:

Download the Lion Face And Mane Template PDF
Print the Lion Face Template on yellow construction paper. This page has two lion faces on it so you will only need half as many copies of the Lion Face Template.
Cut the paper down the middle so there is one lion face on each half and one for each student.
Download and print the Lion Mane Template onto light brown construction paper.
Cut out the mane piece and snip carefully around the edge towards the middle, to create the look of fur.
Cut out the lion’s face and glue the face onto the mane.
Finally, tape a straw onto the back side to complete your lion puppet!

Make a fun outer space scene with a rocket ship, planets, and stars!

Materials

Directions

Assemble the space ship, using various shapes of construction paper.
Decorate the background by cutting out planets and stars and gluing them onto the black construction paper (space stickers would also work well for this part.)
Glue the space ship onto the background.

Note: You can prepare different shapes ahead of time that kids can use to “build” their space shuttle.

Check out my Outer Space Crafts and Activities Board on Pinterest for more Space-Themed activities!

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