I have seen a bazillion crafts that can be made from paper plates and I have promised myself(for the sake of not being too predictable) not to use them every week, but then I came up with this little umbrella idea and just had to try it out.
Here is what you need: paper plates,blue and brown construction paper,blue or gray yarn,glue,scissors and tape.
Cut the yarn into short varying lengths about 4-6 inches long. Glue two raindrops together with the piece of yarn in between. Make as many drops per string as you like, 1-3 work best.
Then tape the yarn to the back top edge of the umbrella and... ta da, your done. It looks kinda cute hung up in a window too!
Then tape the yarn to the back top edge of the umbrella and... ta da, your done. It looks kinda cute hung up in a window too!
3 comments:
This is super cute. Maybe I will try and do that one with finn when the rains come again. For now I am enjoying this sun!!
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I used this craft with my kindergarten students but incorporated math into it but just using 2 strings, one on each side of umbrella handle and then giving each student a different number of raindrops. They had to glue raindrops on each string and then write the addition sentence on the umbrella :) it was a big hit!
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