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Springtime Crafts with OT Based Focus

April 5, 2023

Spring Crafts with Occupational Therapy Based Focus

Handprint Peeps


Supplies:

  • Yellow and orange Paint
  • Paint brushes
  • White and orange construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue Stick
  • Black pen or marker


Instructions:

  1. Paint your child’s hand yellow! 
  2. Place your child's painted hand on white construction paper with the fingers spread out.
  3. Let dry
  4. Using a paint brush and orange paint, paint 2 legs and the feet
  5. Let dry
  6. Using the black pen or marker have draw 2 eyes
  7. Using the orange construction paper and scissors, have your child cut out a triangle for the beak (you can draw the triangle first and have them cut out the shape).
  8. Use the glue stick and place the beak 
  9. Cut around the peep
  10. Sign your artwork!


Paper Roll Bunny Rabbits


Supplies:

  • 1 empty paper towel roll
  • 1 empty toilet paper roll
  • White, brown, or black paint 
  • Green paint 
  • Paint brushes
  • Construction paper (any light color)
  • Black  pen or marker
  • Plastic fork


Instructions:

  1. Dip bottom of paper towel roll in the paint color of your choice (white, brown, or black)
  2. Put 3-4 circles halfway down the construction paper, staggering them across the page (make sure the construction paper is horizontal)
  3. Squeeze your toilet paper roll into an oval shape for the bunny ears
  4. Dip the end of toilet paper roll in paint of your choice
  5. Put 2 ears on the top of each circle
  6. Let dry
  7. Draw 2 eyes, a nose, whiskers, and 2 front teeth
  8. Dip the plastic fork in green paint and make grass marks under all of your bunnies
  9. Sign your artwork!



Paper Plate Peeps


Supplies:

  • White paper plate
  • Yellow and orange construction paper
  • Markers
  • Scissors
  • Black Pen/Sharpie


Instructions:

  • Draw a small and large circle on your yellow construction paper (head & body of peep)
  • Draw a small triangle on the orange construction paper (beak)
  • Cut out all shapes
  • Draw a triangular pattern on the paper plate (egg shell)
  • Cut along triangular pattern
  • Using colorful markers draw Easter patterns on the plate
  • Glue your beak in the middle of the small yellow circle
  • With black sharpie or pen draw 2 eyes above the triangle
  • Glue head to the body
  • Glue body to the edge of your egg shell
  • Sign your artwork!


Paper Plate Bunny 


Supplies:

  • Solid color paper plate or white paper plate
  • 1 sheet of computer paper
  • 2 white pipe cleaners
  • Pink pom pom
  • Black sharpie & colored pencil
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
  • Tape
  • Glue
  • Bright colored paint (if using white paper plates)
  • Paint brush




Instructions:

  1. Paint both plates color of your choosing & let dry (If using a white paper plates only)
  2. If using a solid colored paper plate skip step one
  3. Cut one paper plate in half
  4. Draw 2 medium sized eyes on computer paper with black sharpie or colored pencil
  5. Cut out eyes
  6. Glue eyes towards the top of whole paper plate
  7. Take both pipe cleaners and twist together in the center
  8. Tape to center of paper plate under the eyes
  9. Tape pink pom pom to where the pipe cleaner is twisted together in the middle
  10. Using the sharpie draw the bunnies mouth and 2 front teeth
  11. Staple first ½  of paper plate to the top left of whole plate
  12. Staple second ½ of paper plate to the top right of whole plate
  13. Sign your artwork!



Handprint Ladybug


Supplies

  • Red & black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Black marker
  • Pencil


Instructions

  1. On the red piece of construction paper trace both of your littles hands using the pencil
  2. On the black piece of construction paper draw a medium sized circle using the black marker (to get a perfect circle trace a small bowl or plate) and 2 antennas
  3. Have them cut out their handprints, circle, and antennas
  4. Using the marker have them draw varying sized circles on the handprints for the bugs spots
  5. Glue handprints to the middle of the circle with the thumbs touching at the bottom
  6. Glue antennas to top of circle
  7. Draw 2 eyes 
  8. Sign your artwork








Paper Rainbow


Supplies

  • Paper plate
  • Cotton balls
  • Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, & purple construction paper
  • Bottle of Glue
  • Tape
  • Scissors
  • Ruler/straight edge



Instructions

  1. Cut paper plate in half
  2. Using a ruler or straight edge make equal sized strips going vertically on each color of construction paper
  3. Cut out strips
  4. Using glue cover paper plate with the cotton balls
  5. Let dry
  6. With the rounded edge of the paper plate, flip the paper plate over and tape colored strips at  the bottom starting with the color purple on the left, then blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. 
  7. Sign your artwork


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