Animal bookmarks
Materials
• cardboard • crayons
• scissors • a pencil
Cut a strip of cardboard about three fingers wide and a little shorter than your book.
Draw an animal with a big face on one end of the cardboard strip. Color it and cut around it. The body of the animal is the rest of the cardboard.
Slip the bookmark between the pages of your book at the place that you want to mark.
A FISH TO HANG UP
Materials
construction paper
ruler
blunt scissors
string
1. With a ruler draw a straight line two inches away from the long side of a piece of construction paper. Then take your scissors, cut along the line you have drawn, and you’ll have a long strip of paper.
2. Fold it in half, and crease il. Then one inch from one end of the strip, cut through the paper from the side halfway across, as shown in the picture. On the other end, cut halfway across the paper from the other side.
3. Now bring both ends together, and fit the cuts together. The fan at the end forms the fish’s tail.
4. Poke a small hole in the fish’s back, and push a piece of string through the hole. Knot the end of the string so it won’t pull through the paper. You can draw eyes and mouth on your fish, if you wish. Then hang it up.
You can make many fish of different colored paper, and hang them in your room.
Animal crafts
Cork Floaters
Materials
a large cork stopper
blunt scissors
cardboard
a thumbtack
crayons
Use only half of a cork stopper for each floater. Ask Mother or Dad to cut the cork stopper in half. You can make two floating toys out of one cork.
Lay one cork half on its flat side. In the center of the rounded side, cut a small slit. This slit will hold the cardboard cutout.
Draw a duck on cardboard with a small tab at the bottom. The tab will fit in the slit of the cork.
Color the duck on both sides with wax crayons to waterproof it. Cut it out and stick the tab in the slit. Stick a thumbtack on the cork to weight it.
You can make all kinds of cork floaters. The other half of the cork is waiting.