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25 Super Easy Preschool Crafts You Can Make in 10 Minutes

May 28, 2020 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

These super easy preschool crafts are so simple you can make them in just 10 minutes!

I love to make crafts with my kids, especially when they’re very young.

What I don’t like is having to buy a whole lot of supplies (and expensive ones, at that!) for a project that I’ll only do once.

So, when I make a craft with my preschooler, I always prefer to do one that I can get done in 10 minutes or less.

After all, Pre-K kids have pretty short attention spans. 

If you’re looking for some simple crafting fun for young kids, try this list of super easy preschool crafts you can make in just 10 minutes!

25 Super Easy Preschool Crafts for Kids

This list is full of easy PreK crafts for each season.

Some work well for spring, others for summer or fall, some are perfect for winter – and some are great any time of the year!

Read on the see the full list. And for more simple preschool ideas, check out my list of 10 preschool learning activities you can do in 10 minutes!

This list of 10 minute easy preschool crafts is perfect for a quick crafting session with little ones!

25 Super Easy Preschool Crafts

1. Toilet Roll Butterfly Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

2. Torn Paper Fall Tree Craft – Hands On As We Grow

3. Easy Snowflake Craft – Mama Smiles

4. No-Sew Sock Snowman Craft – Easy Peasy and Fun

5. Easy Wax Boats – Housing a Forest

6. Train Tape Resist Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

7. Easy Craft Stick Snakes – Crafty Morning

8. Coffee Filter Apple Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

9. Easy Shapes Salt Truck Craft – Sugar Aunts

10. Pringles Can Binoculars – Happy Hooligans

11. Farm Paper Bag Puppets – Look! We’re Learning!

12. Easy Paper Plate Watermelon Craft – ABC Creative Learning

13. Simple Fork Print Sunflower Craft – Crafty Morning

10 Minute Preschool Crafts You Can Make With the Kids

14. Simple Farm Craft with Stickers – I Heart Crafty Things

15. Coffee Filter Sun Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

16. Shape School Bus Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

17. Simple Cardboard Tube Construction Set – Inner Child Fun

18. Simple Craft Stick Photo Frame – Living Montessori Now

19. Woven Craft Stick Butterflies – The Craft Train

20. Sea Shell Salt Dough Craft – Teach Mama

21. Farm Shoebox Diorama – Look! We’re Learning!

22. Simple Airplane Craft – Learning 4 Kids

23. Paper Plate Cars – Glued to My Crafts

24. Clothespin Snowman Craft – Easy Peasy and Fun

25. Easy Shape Car Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

Did you like this post? Try these other early learning ideas!

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Ten Minute Preschool Activities

These picture books for preschoolers include classic stories and modern titles for parents to share!

 

 

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This post is part of the Crafts for Kids Unit Study roundup! Stop by to read other great kids’ crafts posts from my fellow educators!

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Letter F Craft: Flamingo Fun! from Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading

 

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Super Cute Printable Farm Paper Bag Puppets

August 28, 2017 by Selena Robinson 17 Comments

When my kids were small, they all loved the petting zoo.

Between watching the chickens run around, petting the goats and baby lambs, and seeing the pigs root in the mud, there was so much for the kids to see!

Our youngest child still loves the petting zoo and she’s not alone!

Kids just love farm animals, which is why farms are such a popular topic for early childhood education units.

Farm Paper Bag Puppets

This year, our youngest child is working on reading more picture books and we started with the book Big Red Barn.

To help her with learning to recite stories, I made up some printable farm paper bag puppets so she could reenact parts of the story.

And I’m sharing them with all of you today!

Farm Animal Paper Bag Puppets

Read on to see how you can get these cute puppet printables free!

And if you want to share more farm activities with the kids, try our farm animal flashcards or our easy farm shoebox diorama craft!

These adorable farm animal paper bag puppets are such a fun way to learn about barnyard animals with the kids!

How to Assemble the Printable Farm Paper Bag Puppets

To make these farm paper bag puppets, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer paper
  • Brown paper lunch bags (One per puppet)
  • Crayons
  • Child-safe scissors
  • Liquid glue
  • A copy of our free Farm Paper Bag Puppet printables (Details below)
  • Pick up a copy of Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown to make this a storytime activity!

Printable Farm Puppet Faces

First, you’ll need to print the paper bag puppet faces out.

Farm Puppet Printables

Give the kids some crayons and let them color them in!

We did traditional farm animal colors, but let the kids use whatever colors they want! If they want to make a purple cow, so be it.

Farm Paper Bag Puppet Printables

After you color in the puppet faces, use a pair of child-safe scissors to cut them out as one piece each.

Making a Farm Paper Bag Puppet

Flip a paper bag upside down so that the bottom is at the top. Leave it folded.

Then spread liquid glue over the folded bottom. That’s where you’ll paste the puppet face.

Making a Pig Paper Bag Puppet

Stick the puppet face on the bag bottom and hold it down to glue it securely.

Making a Farm Paper Bag Puppet for Kids

Cut another piece of printer paper in half and color it to match the puppet face.

Then glue it onto the paper bag body directly under the puppet face. Be sure to flip the bottom up so that you can fit the paper onto the bag.

Completed Pig Paper Bag Puppet

When you’re done, the puppet should look like this.

Keep reading to pick up the printable template for these farm animal puppets!

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How to Use the Farm Paper Bag Puppets for Storytelling

DIY Farm Paper Bag Puppets

Repeat the process with the other puppet printables to make a cow puppet, a chicken puppet, and a pig puppet.

Since we were reading Big Red Barn, we wanted to make one of each.

Using a Paper Bag Animal Puppet

But you could also print three pig puppets to go along with The Three Little Pigs or print several cow puppets to go with Click, Clack, Moo.

There are plenty of great children’s books about farms to use these with!

Making a Paper Bag Puppet

To make your puppets “talk”, just have the kids put their hands inside the bags and place their fingers into the folded bag bottom (the same place where the face is).

They can move their fingers up and down to make each puppet speak!

Playing with a Farm Paper Bag Puppet

Using lunch bags is the easiest way to make sure that the bags will fit your little ones’ hands.

But if you want to make adult puppets, you might want to get bags that are a little bit bigger.

Playing with a Pig Paper Bag Puppet

“Oh, Mr. Pig, you’re so funny!”

These were so much fun for storytelling! And they’re great for pretend play too!

Scroll down to get your copy of our Printable Farm Paper Bag Puppets free!

Have even more farm fun with the kids!

Make counting practice fun with this five in a row printable farm game! Great for early math centers!

These fun farm books for kids are perfect for reading about farms, learning about farm animals, or doing a farm unit study!

Super Easy Farm Shoebox Diorama Craft

 

 

To get your copy of these printable Farm Paper Bag Puppets, just click the image or the link below to download them to your computer!

 

Farm Paper Bag Puppets
 

>>> Farm Paper Bag Puppets <<<

This post is part of the 31 Days of ABC linkup!

 

All Done Monkey: Early Literacy – Getting Started Teaching the Alphabet
 

Creative World of Varya: A Is for Aromatherapy for Kids
 

Hispanic Mama: B Is For Bilingual Baby Books
 

Witty Hoots: C Is for Cool Fingerprint Castle Keyrings Tutorial
 

Teach Me Mommy: D Is for Dinosaurs DIY Sensory Bin
 

E Is for Environmental Print
 

Look! We’re Learning! F Is for Farm
 

All Done Monkey: G Is for Go
 

All Done Monkey: H Is for Hello/Hola
 

Jeddah Mom: I Is for Ice Cream
 

Pennies of Time: K Is for Kindness
 

Schooling Active Monkeys: L Is for Lion
 

Sugar, Spice & Glitter
 

Kitchen Counter Chronicles: O Is for Owls
 

Creative World of Varya
 

JDaniel4’sMom: R Is for Robot
 

Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes: S Is for Spanish
 

Sand In My Toes: T Is for Truck
 

The Educators’ Spin On it: U Is for Unicorn
 

CrArty: V Is for Van Gogh
 

My Story Time Corner: W Is for Wheels on the Bus
 

The Mommies Reviews: X
 

Bambini Travel: Z Is for Zoo Animals
These farm animal paper bag puppets are a perfect craft for spring! Use them as an extension for books about farms!

 

 

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Textured Sponge Painting Preschool Craft

August 9, 2013 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Art is one my favorite subjects to teach in our homeschool lessons. But when you’re starting with young children, I’ve found it best to keep the projects as simple as possible. After all, they’re not quite ready to study post-modernism. 🙂

So we tried this easy textured sponge painting preschool craft with our kids and they absolutely loved it! It was a simple way to study color and painting while giving them a bit of sensory input at the same time.

Read on to see how to do this simple art project with your kids! And if you love this craft, try our list of super easy preschool crafts you can make in 10 minutes!

This easy textured sponge painting craft is a perfect preschool art activity! It only takes a few minutes!

Textured Sponge Painting Preschool Craft

To do this craft, you’ll need the following:

  • Large kitchen sponge
  • Scissors
  • Fingerpaint
  • Painting paper
  • Paint cups
  • Newspaper
  • Sketching pencil (optional)

To set up this craft, we cut a large kitchen sponge into four pieces and handed them out. (This step should be done by an adult.)

Then we added a bit more texture by having the kids crumple up their paper before beginning. We found some super old fingerpaint (I mean, from when Tigger was a toddler) and added a bit of water to thin it out and then it was time to get started!

Textured Sponge Painting: Look! We're Learning!

When we asked Roo if he wanted me to sketch his design for him, he said “I want to make whatever I want to make.” Got it.

Textured Sponge Painting: Look! We're Learning!

Tigger wanted to paint a picture of a tree, so I sketched it for her to give her a little guide since the sponge tips are so large.

Textured Sponge Painting: Look! We're Learning!

Pooh wanted to paint a train and it ended up not going as well as he would have liked. But the experience of painting was so fun that he was all smiles anyway at the end. I think that’s what art should be like for kids!

Textured Sponge Painting: Look! We're Learning!

Here’s everyone’s work. Mine is at top left, Tigger’s is at top right, Pooh’s train is bottom right, and Roo’s unique individualist expression is at bottom left.

To give the pictures a bit more flair, we sprinkled glitter and colored salt on them before they dried. A simple introduction to Impressionism, perhaps?

Have you tried this textured sponge painting preschool craft with your kids? Let me know how it went in the comments!

Textured Sponge Painting Preschool Art Activity

Like this post? Try these other ideas for preschoolers!

These super easy preschool crafts are so simple you can make them in just 10 minutes!

Ten Minute Preschool Activities

Help your preschooler love reading with this preschool homeschool reading list!

And get more ideas for preschool learning on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

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