Animal Craft: Styroplate Crow | Home Learning Art & Craft Project Activity
In this post, I will be sharing a "crow" craft. This was a craft project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 3: Sound of the Week) homeschool curriculum for the long "ow" sound as in "crow", Click Here To Find Out Why We Are Doing Homeschooling.
I thought about ways how to make our crow using materials we already have at home. We have lots of these small styro plates in the cabinet and that gave me the idea for making this styro plate crow craft.
READY FOR KID BEFORE STARTING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS
* cut styro plate (crow's head)
* cut styro plate (crow's body)
* cut hair, beak and feet patterns
DONE BY ADULT OR PARENT
* cut styro plate (crow's head)
* cut styro plate (crow's body)
* cut hair, beak and feet patterns
DONE BY ADULT OR PARENT
* CROW HEAD: Cut the sides all around 1 small styro plate to make a smaller styro plate circle for the head of the crow.
* CROW BODY WITH WINGS: Make 2 slant cuts on both sides of another small styro plate then cut through one slant towards the inner part of the plate until the other slant to create a crow body and wings pattern on the plate as seen in the image below.
* CROW BEAK: Cut a triangle shape on a construction paper, you may try other colors aside from what is seen in our sample craft.
* CROW FEET: Draw a feet pattern on a construction paper in the same color as the beak.
* CROW HAIR: Draw a small hair pattern on a spare styro plate as seen in our sample craft to be glued on top of crow head.
DONE BY CHILD
* paint styro plates
* glue crow pieces together
* draw details on crow
STEPS IN DOING THIS CROW CRAFT
STEP #1: First, let child color the crow head, body, and hair with black poster paint. Set painted pieces aside to dry.
STEP #2: Next, let child draw details on crow beak using coloring marker.
STEP #3: Once painted pieces are dry, let child glue googly eyes, beak, and feet on crow using liquid glue then glue hair pattern on top of crow head using hot melt glue. Put hot glue on the spot and guide child to put hair pattern on it. You can also try colorful googly eyes aside from the regular one to create different and fun looking crow eyes.
And your "styro plate crow" is DONE. We have run out of black paint so Lauren's crow (in the image above) turned out pale. We tried putting it on top of a branch just like a real crow sitting on a branch of a tree.
MATERIALS FOR THIS CRAFT
* 2 small styro plates * black poster paint * paint brush * paint mixing tray * assorted construction papers * scissors * googly eyes * liquid glue * hot melt glue * glue gun * coloring markers
LEARNING IS MORE FUN WITH A STORY
Below is a moral story about a crow and a fox with a moral lesson about being careful of flattery from someone as it could be they are trying to manipulate you and only want something from you.
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