Paper Crafts For Kids

• The template of James' face and body, etc.
• Crayons
• Lightweight cardboard rectangles 11" by 9" {27 1/2 cm. by 22    1/2 cm.}, one per craft.
• Extra lightweight cardboard
• An oatmeal box (cylindrical) (optional)
• Scissors 
• Glue
• A pencil
• Package sealing tape
• Two tongue depressors

• Download the template of James' face and body 8 1/2" by 11" paper 

• Color The Template:

• The body (the largest piece) is red.

• The face is flesh color with blue eyes, red mouth and cheeks, black eyebrows.

• The two small round pieces (lights) are yellow.

• The rest of the pieces are black, except the 4 round ones.

• The round shape is traced 4 times and cut out of light               cardboard for wheels.

• Cut out the pieces from the template. This may require adult help.

• Use the cardboard rectangle to form a tube, rolling the shorter sides inward and fastening them ogether with package sealing tape (adult task).

• Draw long lines on the tongue depressors.

• Color the engine's wheels and glue two on each side with a tongue depressor glued from one to the other as a connector.

• Glue James' face on his red body.

• Glue on his "hat" and the two lights.

• Tape his cowcatchers on from behind.

• Tape James to the front of the cylindrical tube.

• Lightweight, white cardboard
• The paper templates of the chick, the whole egg, and the two egg halves
• Crayons
• Scissors
• A hole punch 
• One brad

• Download the template of the chick 8 1/2" by 11" paper 

• Download the template of the egg and egg halves 8 1/2" by 11" paper 

• Cut out the egg templates (the whole egg and the two halves) and trace them onto the white cardboard.

• Cut them out of the cardboard.

• Color the chick yellow and draw on an orange wing. Color the beak orange.

• Cut out the chick.

• Put the chick together by pushing the brad through the egg pieces and chick,at the dots, in this order: (You may need to punch holes with the hole punch.)

• One cracked egg

• The second cracked egg
• The chick
• The whole egg

• Spread the prongs of the brad apart on the back of the             project.

• The egg should open up to reveal the chick inside.