Crafts with Paper Plates

When the paint is dry, use the painting as a greeting card, or cover it with clear contact paper and use it as a Valentine's Day place mat.

Materials

* Pencil
* Paper plate
* Child's blunt-tip safety scissors
* Red, white, or pink construction paper
* Sponge
* Red, white, and/or pink tempera paint
* Clear contact paper (optional)
* Marker (optional)

If you like, glue plastic ants (or draw them on with a marker) onto the tablecloth.

Materials

* Red marker or tempera paint and paintbrush
* White construction paper
* Small paper plate
* Old magazines
* Scissors
* Glue
* Black plastic ants or black marker (optional)

Have your child tear the paper products into small pieces and stick them onto the plate.

Materials

* Paintbrush
* Glue thinned with water
* Clear plastic plate
* Red, white, and blue paper products (streamers, tissue paper, napkins, and so on)
* Confetti stars and glitter (optional)
* Poster putty

Don't be scared ... kids will be drawn in to the fun of creating their very own spider web. Add it to your collection of spooky Halloween decorations that everyone looks forward to seeing year after year, and you'll be reminded of the fun you had spinning this web together!

Materials

* Black tempera paint
* White paper plate
* Black marker
* Child's blunt-tip safety scissors
* Tape
* Black yarn
* Plastic insects (optional)
* Black paper plate (optional)
* White tempera paint (optional)
* White yarn (optional)

This Thanksgiving, invite your child to join you in spicing up the season! A bit of love and laughter will add to the fun and then you all can enjoy this enticing turkey when you're done. So harvest up any little wild Indians or petite pilgrims and see who can create the most awesome autumn turkey!

Materials

* White glue
* Shallow container
* Construction paper, small paper plate, or small aluminum pie pan
* Pumpkin pie spice, allspice, ground cinnamon, or ground nutmeg
* Black and red markers

Beginning at one edge of the paper plate, cut along a spiral path, cutting around and around until you reach the center of the plate.

Materials

* Pen or marker
* Christmas cookie cutters
* Construction paper
* Scissors
* Glitter pens or paint pens (optional)
* Hole punch or tape
* Dental floss or embroidery thread
* Dinner-size paper plate (or file folder cut into a circle)

Make your own spinning tops out of candy and other objects!

What You'll Need

Hershey's Kiss
Gum drops
Toothpicks
Thread spool
Wooden dowels
Popsicle sticks
Pencil sharpener
Paper plate
Glue

Easter crafts, easter bonnet craft for preschool and young children from Amazingmoms.com.

Materials Needed:
paper plate
ribbon
hole punch
glue
supplies to decorate the hat i.e. lace, bows,
ribbons, beads, costume jewelry, chenille stems,
feathers, felt, crayons, poster paint

Back to school craft idea for kids, painted bookmark craft. Create your own bookmark with this unique mosaic painting style.

You’ll Need:
pencils with erasers
poster or acrylic paint
construction paper
paper plate or meat tray
hole punch
yarn or ribbon

Your children will love making this May Day Baskets Craft for Kids which is a great flower craft for Spring. May Day is May 1st. Make this basket of flowers to hang on your neighbor's door or give it to someone that you love.

Materials You need:

* Flowers Printed on Pink Paper
* Flowers Printed on Yellow Paper
* Flowers Printed on Teal Paper
* Leaves Printed on Green Paper
* Tacky Glue
* Scissors
* Two Paper Plates
* Six Pipe Cleaners
* Hole Punch
* String for Hanging

Race Car - This makes a fun party or preschool activity. Children will enjoy making the car and playing a game of Red Light Green Light.

Craft Supplies That you'll need:

* Apple box for each child (or similar sized box)
* Red, yellow, blue, green and orange paint
* Colored plastic plates
* Paint brush
* Tacky glue
* Box knife
* Colored construction pape

Help your kids make this Thankful Wreath of Leaves arts and crafts project for children. You and your child can make a beautiful wreath of leaves that displays what your child is thankful for. This wreath makes a great Autumn or Thankgsiving decoration.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

# A plain white paper plate
# Construction paper (orange, red, yellow, brown, and other earth tones)
# Crayons or markers
# Scissors
# Glue or a glue stick

Wild Turkey - Take a walk in the woods and find nature items to make this Thanksgiving pal.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

# Items from nature, such as pinecones, leaves, sticks, pebbles, bark, and seeds
# Kitchen items, such as bay leaves and dry bean-soup mix
# Colored poster board
# Scissors
# Pencil
# Small plate
# Thick white crafts glue

Children can celebrate Earth Day with this Crafts Project for children to Grow a Seed Garden - Its a chance to celebrate Mother Nature and all of her gifts. Its also a chance to learn about how things grow&how we can take care of the earth ... on April 22nd and everyday.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

# a small clear jar
# dried beans
# water
# a lightweight tray or plate

SunFlower Craft - Instructions to make a sunflower using a paper plate and real sunflower seeds.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:
# Paper Plate
# Glue
# Sunflower Seeds
# Yellow Paint

Learn how to make your very own Busy Bee Puppet with this kids crafts idea. Here are this children's arts and crafts project's Instructions to make a puppet that looks like a bee sitting on a flower.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED

# Paper Plate
# Black Glove (stretchy kind works well!)
# Glue
# Wiggle Eyes
# Felt
# 1 Inch Pom-Pom
# Pipecleaner

Hey children, learn how to make a flower daisy puppet with the following CD Daisy Puppet instructions from About.com. A craft for kids to Make a flower using an old cd, a paper plate, a sock, and a few other supplies. Girls love this puppet. A great puppet to play with when Spring and Easter are coming around and the flowers are blooming.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED

# Paper Plate
# CD
# Glue
# Large Wiggle Eyes
# 2 Inch Pom-Pom
# Scrap of Felt or Construction Paper
# Old Green Sock

Hey Kids, learn how to make your own handmade Elephant Puppet with this children's crafts activity. This is an arts and crafts project for kids to make their own elephant hand puppet. Learn how to make this Elephant Puppet out of a paper plates and popsicle sticks.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:

# Paper Plate
# Gray Paint
# Gary Construction Paper
# Popsicle Stick
# Glue

Do you love frogs? Here is an easy to make crafts project for kids to make on a Rainy Day. This Children's Arts and crafts activity to create a Paper Plate Frog Puppet is so much fun that you might find your child making more than one...which is good because then the frogs can play together. He may not be a prince, but this paper puppet is certainly charming.

CRAFTS MATERIALS NEEDED:
Paint
Construction Paper
Paper Plate
Googley Eyes
Glue
Scissors

You can teach your kids how to celebrate Mardi Gras by making these fun to make and fun to play with Mardi Gras Noise Makers. This is an easy-to-make arts and crafts activity for your children and even you. And with these easy enough for kids instructions, you can both learn how to make these festive, Mardi Gras noise makers out of paper plates and a few other items found below.

CRAFTS MATERIALS YOUR KIDS NEED FOR THIS CHILDRENS' ARTS AND CRAFTS ACTIVITY:

# 2 Paper Plates
# Crayons, Markers, or Paint
# Crepe Paper or Other Streamers
# Dried Beans
# Stapler or Tape
# Craft Stick
# Tape

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This easy-to-make duck is a cute craft that is made from a single paper plate and construction paper.

More animal crafts

Supplies needed: Paper plate
Scissors
Glue
Stapler
A pencil
Yellow and orange construction paper or oak tag
Crayons, paint or markers
Googly eyes (optional)

Trace your hands on yellow construction paper, then cut the hands out. If you don't have yellow construction paper, use stiff white paper, then paint it yellow (or use markers).
Fold a paper plate in half.
Paint it yellow and let it dry


Staple the hands near the fold on one end - these will be the tail feathers.
Using yellow construction paper or oaktag, cut out a circle (about 3 inches across or a little bigger) -- this will be the duck's head.
Using orange construction paper or oaktag, cut out an elongated oval with one end cut off -- this will be the duck's bill. Fold the end of the beak over, making a small tab (this is where you will put the glue).

Glue the bill onto the circle (put the glue on the small tab that will be folded under the bill). Draw eyes above the bill (or glue on small googly eyes).
Staple the head to the paper plate (near the fold line, opposite the tail feathers).

Using orange construction paper or oaktag, cut out the duck's feet - they should be connected by a short strip of paper. To draw each foot, start with an oval, then draw a zigzag on one end.
Fold the paper where the feet meet the strip of paper.

Staple each foot to the bottom of one side of the paper plate, right inside the fold line of the foot.
You now have a cute duckie that will stand up.

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Easy Lion Paper Plate Craft
I've had a lot of requests for more paper plate crafts. This king of the jungle is made with a paper plate. I've provided templates for dinner sized and snack sized plates. If you don't have paper plates, don't fret! Just take a regular plate and trace it onto a piece of cardboard (old cereal boxes work great!) or use a margarine/ice cream container lid.

You can easily make a mask, by leaving off the eyes and cutting holes. Attach (glue and tape) a popsicle stick or unsharpened pencil to the bottom for the child to hold it to their face.

Older children may prefer the toilet paper roll version (Age 3+) or the paper folding version (Age 6+) as they are each more challenging (although some days it's nice to have an easy craft on hand when supper's running a bit late!)

MATERIALS
it all depends on what option you use... you'll will need

either paper plate (whatever size)
cardboard cut into a circle OR
margarine or ice cream container lid


either yellow paint, yellow construction paper OR
yellow tissue paper


either brown and/or orange paint,
brown and/or orange construction paper,
brown and/or orange tissue paper, OR
brown and/or orange wool


either black paint, OR
black marker, OR
black wool


INSTRUCTIONS
Paint your paper plate yellow

or

glue yellow construction/tissue paper onto it (rip 1 inch (ish) squares of construction/tissue paper and glue them on with a mixture of 1/2 water and 1/2 regular children's white glue. This is sort of like mod podging)


OPTIONS FOR THE MANE:
Swirl yellow, brown and/or orange paint in a plate (don't mix it totally). With a a toothbrush, dip into the paint and brush on a mane (this is how we did ours)

Swirl yellow, brown and/or orange paint in a plate (don't mix it totally. With a sponge, dip into the paint and sponge on a mane.

Cut 1/2 inch wide x 2 inch (ish) long strips of brown, yellow and or orange construction or tissue paper and glue them around the outside edge of the plate to make your mane. You can curl all/some of them around a pencil to make some curly parts

Cut 1/2 inch wide x 2 inch (ish) long strips into the paper plate itself. Roll them around a pencil to make curly parts. You can paint/color with marker the tips brown if you like

Cut 2 inch (ish) long strips of orange/brown/yellow wool and glue onto the paper plate to make the mane

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MATERIALS
it all depends on what option you use... you'll will need

either paper plate (whatever size)
cardboard cut into a circle OR
margarine or ice cream container lid


either orange paint,
orange construction paper OR
orange tissue paper


either template pieces provided,
black paint,
black construction paper OR
black marker


INSTRUCTIONS
Paint your paper plate orange

OR

glue orange construction/tissue paper onto it (rip 1 inch (ish) squares of construction/tissue paper and glue them on with a mixture of 1/2 water and 1/2 regular children's white glue. This is sort of like mod podging)

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Supplies needed: Paper plate
Scissors
Glue (or tape or a stapler)
Googly eyes (optional)
Crayons, paint or markers

Cut a wedge out of a paper plate. The wedge will be the fish's tail; the hole will be the fish's mouth.
Glue (or use tape or a stapler) the tail to the end of the fish.
Glue a googly eye on the fish (glue on two eyes if you want a flounder) or simply draw eye(s).

Color in the fish, drawing scales, lips, and so on.
For an extra touch, make a tiny fish (use the same instructions as above, but start with a tiny circle made from construction paper). Hang the tiny fish from the large fish's mouth using a short piece of thread.

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Hanging Wall Pocket
Supplies:
2 plain paper plates
a hole punch
yarn, twine, or other thick thread
scissors
stickers (optional)
thick needle (optional)
crayons, paint, or markers



Cut one paper plate in half.

Punch holes along the straight edge, about 1 inch apart (don't punch near the circular part yet).
Put the plates together, the fronts together, forming a pocket. While holding them together, punch holes around the edges about 1 inch apart. It may help to use clothes pins to hold the 2 plates together.
Have the child "sew" up all the edges with yarn, string, or twine. Older children can use an upholstery needle. For younger ones, a bit of nail polish put on the end of the string (let it dry first) will act like a needle.
Make a hole for hanging the wall pocket on the wall. Decorate the wall pocket with crayons, markers, or paint.

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Materials you will need for the octopus are paper plate or ice cream container lid, eight strips of tissue paper, crepe paper or construction paper, a printer, glue, scissors, something to colour with and a piece of paper (I prefer construction paper).

NOTE: you can omit the Paper Plate/lid and just treat as a paper craft.


Print out the template of choice.

Colour the pieces as appropriate and cut them out. (cutting may require adult assistance and can be pre-done).

See the picture above if you're confused as to how to put this together.

Cut the paper plate or ice cream container lid in half to make a half-circle. This should be done by an adult.

Glue the eight strips of tissue/crepe/construction paper along the straight edge of the half circle (these are the tentacles).

Glue the eyes and mouth onto the front of the octopus.

Glue the bow on top of the head for a girl or under the "chin" for a boy.

Glue the banner along the bottom of the half circle (or glue it to one of the tentacles).

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Jack-O-Lantern Mask -
Supplies needed: A paper plate
Crayons, markers, or tempera paint
Scissors
Hole punch
Green yarn or elastic

Draw a jack-o'-lantern's face on the back of a paper plate.
Cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth. Decorate the rest of the jack-o'lantern.
Punch a hole in each side of the mask.
Tie a length of green yarn to each side (or use elastic) of the jack-o'-lantern.

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Make a cute snowman decoration using two paper plates. This makes a nice decoration to put on a door or hang in a window


Snow Theme Page

Supplies needed: 2 white paper plates
Construction paper (black, red) or wrapping paper
An orange pipe cleaner (for the nose)
A short length of yearn or ribbon
Hole punch
Marker or crayons
Scissors
Glue
Optional: googly eyes, large buttons



On one of the paper plates, cut off the outer rim, making a smaller plate.
Punch a hole near the rim on both plates.
Tie the two plates together, using the yarn (or ribbon).
On black construction paper, draw and then cut out a top hat and two boots. On colored construction paper (or gift wrap paper), draw and then cut out two mittens.
Glue the hat, boots and mittens on the snowman.
Either glue on googly eyes or draw eyes. Draw a mouth. For the nose, cut a short length from an orange pipe cleaner. Stick the pipe cleaner through the plate to secure it (if the plate is too tough, make a tiny hole with the tip of the scissors).
For the buttons, you can cut out shapes from construction paper, use round stickers, glue on real buttons, or simply draw them.

You now have a cute snowman decoration!

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Owl Paper Plate Craft -
Supplies needed: 3 paper plates
Yellow, brown or orange construction paper
Scissors
Glue (or a stapler)
Googly eyes (optional)
Crayons, paint or markers

On one paper plate, fold about a third of the plate over (have the bottom of the plate facing forward). This paper plate will be the owl's head.
On the folded part, cut two short slits and fold them back up. (These will be the owl's tufts - although they look like ears, they are only feathers. An owl's ears are simple holes on the sides of the head).
Glue the center section down.

Glue googly eyes on the folded-down section (or cut two large circles and glue them down, then draw a dark dot in the center).
Using construction paper, cut a small half-circle with a little square off the rounded side. Curve the edges around, forming a cone. Glue or staple it shut.

Glue the cone to the paper plate (using the rectangle, folded inside the cone), just beneath the folded part of the paper plate.
Glue or staple the head to another paper plate.
Cut another paper plate in half (these will be the wings).
Glue or staple the wings to the body at a slight angle.
Using construction paper, cut two tiny feet. Glue them to the body.

Color in the owl, drawing feathers, wings, or other patterns

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Paper Plate Angel -
Supplies needed: a paper plate
pencil
scissors
tape or stapler
crayons, paint, and/or markers for decoration


Draw a pattern like this on the underside of a paper plate.
Cut along the lines, discarding the dark section.

Decorate the angel.
Overlap the edges of the angel's skirt slightly and tape or staple it into place.

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Paper Plate Crab -
MATERIALS:
paper plate or alternate (we used snack size in this picture, but dinner size would work too)
pipecleaners or two twist tie's twisted together - 9 of these. If using snack size, cut pipecleaners in half
1 inch(ish) pieces of drinking straw
hole punch
markers or paint

INSTRUCTIONS:
punch 8 holes around the edge of the plate
thread pipecleaners/twistties through these holes and twist to secure.
Put three pieces of straw on each of the pipecleaners. (represents real leg segments)
bend legs to shape/make look like he's walking
punch two more holes, close together in the "front" and put 1 pipecleaner through with ends sticking up. Twist to secure and add beads to the end to decorate (if desired)
color or paint

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Paper Plate Pig -


8 paper plates (either dinner size or dessert size),

egg carton cup or empty cream container (nose)

2 tp rolls for dessert size plates or 4 tp rolls for dinner size (legs),

scissors,

tape or glue,

piece of pink paper (or white paper coloring pink),

pink paint and black paint or marker.

OPTIONAL: googly eyes and a pipecleaner.








If you don't have pink paint, you could cut up 1 inch (ish) squares of pink construction paper or tissue paper and glue those to the paper plates (like mod podging) instead of painting.

We used styrofoam plates as it's what we had in the house. BUT, the paint didn't stick very well and flaked off easily so we couldn't play with the pig *wail*. If I had it all to do again, I'd recommend using paper plates that aren't too glossy on the bottoms. OK, before we go further, we're going to get to know our paper plates (so you'll understand the terms I'm using). The paper plates have a BOTTOM (the part you set on the table) and a TOP (the part you put the food on).



Paint the bottom of the paper plates, egg carton cups and tp rolls pink and let dry.

Kaitlyn (Age "almost 3" at the time *sob*) had loads of fun painting plates and tp rolls pink and gluing them together.

I ended up doing the nose, mouth, tail and legs.

If you're doing this with an older child (4+ ish), try making up a tongue twister to say while you're doing the project (something like "painting pink pig plates" or "please paint the pig plates pink").

Split your plates into sets of two.

Glue each set of two together rim to rim (TOP to TOP).

Glue the bottoms of the 4 sets together so you have a stack of paper plates (see photo). The top plate in the stack will be the face.

If you're using 2 tp rolls, cut them in half. If you're using 4 tp rolls, look at the dimensions and trim them down a bit if you want to (so the legs are proportionate with the pig).

Fold your pink paper in half and cut out a triangle (you'll end up with two identical ears). Glue or tape these to the back of the top set of plates. (If you want to get really fancy, you can sandwich the ears between the plates when you're gluing them together rim to rim).

Draw/paint black nostrils onto the egg cup and glue it to the face.

Draw/paint black eyes onto the pig, attach googly eyes, or draw eyes on white paper and glue them on.

Draw/paint a black mouth onto the pig or draw a mouth on white paper and glue it on.


Once everything is completely dry, squish the top of the tp rolls and slide them between the plates to make 4 legs. Tape or glue.

Twist a pipecleaner into a piggy tail and poke it through the back plate (use a sharp pencil to make a small starter hole) or take a circle of pink paper and cut it in a spiral and glue it to the back plate.

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Paper Plate Starfish Craft -
What you will need: 9 inch paper plates (2 per fish) glue, paint, beads

Directions:

Print out starfish patterns Pattern 1 (Large file of small file) and Pattern 2 (Large file or small file). Cut out the starfish pattern and trace the pattern onto the bottom side of a paper plate and cut it out. (You don't have to use a paper plate; you could just use card stock.)
Fold the solid lines on the pattern up and the dotted lines down as shown in the diagram.
Glue the folded starfish to a piece of card stock and let dry. Don't press the folded starfish flat against the card stock. When your glue is dry cut out around the legs to finish.
Glue on a string or magnet to hang up the fish.
Decorate with beads. We used plastic necklace beads and glued them on so the holes where face up.

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Rabbit Mask Craft -
Supplies needed: Two plain, white paper plates
Pink construction paper or pink paint
Scissors
Stapler
Glue
Crayons, markers, or paint
Optional: small pink pompom
Optional: elastic

Making the rabbit's ears: Either paint the center of a paper plate pink or cut a circle from pink construction paper (it should be the same size as the inside of a paper plate); then glue the pink paper circle to the center of a paper plate.
Cut the paper plate in half (the two halves will be the rabbit's ears).
Making the rabbit's face:Using a new paper plate, cut a wedge (about 1/4 of the plate) out of the paper plate (the large part of the plate will be the rabbit's face).
Staple the ears to the face.
Cut two eye holes in the face.
Optional: glue a small pink pompom to the center of the face (this is the rabbit's nose).
Optional: staple a piece of elastic (about a foot long) to the mask to keep it in place.

Decorate your mask with crayons, markers, or paint. Don't forget to draw whiskers!

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Star Wreath -
Supplies:

Red, white and blue construction paper
A paper plate
Scissors
Glue
Optional - glitter

Cut a large hole in the paper plate.
Cut out a lot of stars from red, white and blue construction paper. For a star template, click here.
Glue the stars to the paper plate.

Optional: Decorate the stars with the names of the children or soldiers. Also, glitter is a nice decorative touch.

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Swimming Pool Plate -

Materials Needed: 9" paper plate; blue tissue paper; fun foam; 1" Styrofoam ball; scissors; Elmer's Washable School Glue; Elmer's 3D Washable Paint Pens
Time Needed: 30 minutes
Cut blue tissue paper to the size of the paper plate and adhere it to the plate with Elmer's Washable School Glue. This will be the pool water.
Cut a small rectangle out of the fun foam and glue it to one edge of the plate lining up one end of the rectangle with the edge of the plate. The rest of the rectangle should lie facing the center of the plate. This will be the diving board.
Use Elmer's 3D Washable Paint Pens to draw segments or lines on the Styrofoam ball to resemble a beach ball. When it has dried, glue it to the tissue paper and the plate.
Cut an inner tube shape from the fun foam and decorate it with the Elmer's 3D Washable Paint Pens. Glue it to the plate using Elmer's Washable School Glue.
Cut out another rectangular shape for a raft and decorate it with Paint Pens. Glue it to the plate as well using Elmer's School Glue.
To make waves in the "water", use blue Elmer's 3D Washable Paint Pens.

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Valentine Heart Wreath -
Supplies:

Red and pink construction paper
A paper plate
Scissors
Glue
Optional - glitter

Cut a large hole in the paper plate.
Cut out a lot of hearts from red and pink paper.
Glue the hearts to the paper plate.

Optional: Decorate the hearts with the names of the children. Also, glitter is a nice touch.

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Ant Hill -
Soda Pop Bottle
Piece of Cadrboard or a Paper PLate
Newspaper
Paper Mache Paste
Masking Tape
Paint
Instructions:
Make sure you cover you work surface well. I usually set down newspaper first and then wax paper on top of the newspaper. This is a very messy project!

Cut the bottom off the soda pop bottle. Place the bottle in the center of the cardboard or paper plate and tape in place. Also run strips of masking tape from the top of the bottle out towards the edge of the cardboard or paper plate to make it look like a hill.

Tear several newspaper pages into strips. You will want them 1 inch wide and about 6 - 8 inches long. Set them aside.

Use a large bowl to prepare your paper mache paste (Pick a recipe here). The paste will be sticky! I would suggest using a bowl that is easy to soak and clean (glass perhaps) or even a disposable bowl.

Dip the newspaper strips into the glue. Run the newspaper through your fingers to squeeze off extra glue and lay them over the masking tape. Completely cover the masking tape, including where it is stuck to the cardboard or paper plate. Be careful to leave a hole in the top open. Let the first layer dry. Add one or two more layers of paper mache to your ant hill. Allow each layer to dry completely before putting on the next layer.

Once your ant hill is dry, paint it brown or whatever other color you want. You can also sprinkle sand on the paint while it is dry to make it look more authentic! Add ants climbing up the side of the ant hill using pom-poms, paper, or whatever else you want!

Leprachaun Hat Arts & Crafts Project Idea Tutorial. - Instructions to make a leprechaun hat from a paper plate and cup. Easy & Fun kids arts & crafts project idea.

CRAFTS MATERIALS YOUR KIDS NEED TO MAKE THIS CHILDRENS' ARTS AND CRAFTS ACTIVITY:
* Small Paper Plate
* Paper Cup
* Paint
* Glue
* Construction Paper

Flower Crown Arts & Crafts Project Idea Tutorial - Kids can make a pretty flowery crown from a paper plate and paper flowers. These are fun to make for Spring or Easter with this easy & fun arts & crafts activity for kids.

CRAFTS MATERIALS YOUR KIDS NEED TO MAKE THIS CHILDRENS' ARTS AND CRAFTS ACTIVITY:
# A paper plate
# Colored construction paper or tissue paper
# Paint, markers, or crayons
# Scissors
# Glue
# Optional - glitter, crepe paper or other ribbons