Craft Idea Needed For Kindergartners To Give To Nursing Home?
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at
11:46 am
My Girl Scout Troop (10 five year olds) will be visiting an Assisted Living Center in December to sing songs. We also wanted to give something to each of the residents. Maybe a simple craft that can be mass-produced. The coordinator suggested something the residents could hang on their doors. There are 50 residents. Each girl would need to make 5 of whatever it is we make so it needs to be fairly quick and easy. Any ideas?
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Wreaths: cut out the center of a paper plate or cut circles out of tag board and cut out the center. Staple or glue a ribbon, yarn, or piece of string for hanging. There are all kinds of ways to decorate them:
hand prints with finger paint - red and green for christmas - do one color, let dry, then do the other color
cut out hand prints, curl the fingers, and glue to the wreath
scraps of green paper glued on and then decorate with beads, sequins, colored macaroni, bits of ribbon — any leftover or extra craft supplies you might have on hand or maybe another troop might have some they would love to let you have.
Reindeer: they can be made out of large candy canes, wooden clothespins (the kind with out the spring), or the large Christmas light bulbs - twist on a brown chenille stem for the antlers, glue on a red pompom for the nose, glue on craft eyes, then tie or glue on a ribbon for hanging.
Bells: cut apart an egg carton, the part that holds the eggs, so that you have 12 bell shapes. Poke a hole in the top and string a piece of yarn through the hole. Tie a knot on the inside and then on the outside, leaving a short piece on the inside that you can attach a small bead or a piece of aluminum foil to for the striker and long enough on the outside to make a hanger. The bells can be painted or covered with aluminum foil or glued and sprinkled with glitter.
There a lots of ideas on the Internet, but the above ideas are ones I either used with my troop or my troop taught to other Girl Scouts.
a cute craft for younger kids is:
DUCKS
1. trace one foot on yellow paper for body
2. trace two hands on yellow paper for wings
3. cut one small diamond in black then fold in half for beak
4. two google eyes or black circles for eyes
5. draw and cut two simple feet for duck
6. staple ribbon on it to hang on doors
I student teach in Kindergarten and something my kids love is the foam stickers that come in letters, numbers, shapes and even holiday shapes! You can buy door hangers from a craft store and decorate them with the foam stickers, they are easy to mass produce and fun for this age.
when i was in kindergarden we planted flowers with seniors. It didnt take very long, and they could hang them outside in those hanging flower pots