Paper Plate Meals
Added: 09-10-2001
Original Author: Unknown
Need: Old magazines, scissors, glue, paper plates
Directions: Magazines for the children to cut food pictures from the food groups should be provided. The pictures can be pasted on a paper plate to represent a
balanced meal.
Handy Book
Added: 09-01-2001
Original Author: Unknown
Need: Paper, scissors, paint, markers or crayons
Directions: On a piece of folded construction paper trace a child’s hand. Cut out the
hand, leaving the fold uncut. You end up with a hand-shaped booklet that will open up. Place small amounts of paint in shallow containers. Let the children decorate their hand books by doting their thumb or fingers with paint making thumb prints or finger prints. Print each child’s name on the outside of the book.
Body Tracing
Added: 09-01-2001
Original Author: Unknown
Need: A child, Large bulletin board paper, crayon or pencil
Directions: Have each child to lie on a large piece of paper. Trace the child’s body and let each child decorate his/her tracing.
My Body Jigsaw
Added: 09-09-2002
Original Author: Unknown
Need: Large paper, crayons, scissors
Directions: Have a child lay on large bulletin paper and trace around child. Get the child to decorate the paper body then cut into large pieces creating a life size jigsaw of themselves!
Foot SPLAT!
Added: 09-09-2002
Submitted By: Jean Potter
Need: large plastic sheet, finger-paint, your feet
Directions: Purchase a large sheet of plastic (about 2 -4 yards, depending on the number of participating kids) in the fabric section of a discount store. Place globs of finger-paint on the plastic and fold the plastic in half. Stomp on the plastic and watch the finger-paint splatter.