Cinco de Mayo art project/craft for 1st and 2nd graders?
I teach middle school in Spain, and Cinco de Mayo this year I will have my 8th year working with the 1st and 2nd students to do a little art project / craft for the party.
Ideas?
When I taught kindergarten, we had the kids make hats, because of course, we also did a dance. But the hats would be cute if the 8. Students work with a small number of children. Cut a lip-shaped donut, then strip both ends of a long rectangular piece of paper. Cut a smaller circle on top. Finged glue one end inside the rim, and the spread ends along the edge. Cut a donut correspondents to cover the ends fringed. Then the top of the glue on the other end to bend the ends are lined inside the time.However, if the hats are red, you can decorate with red, white and green ribbon and make a paper flower hats for girls. These are the flowers of silk paper that are folded fan, tiesd middle and ruffled. They are really cute.
You want something easier. Photo copy of the eagle from the middle of the Mexican FIAF then cut two strips of paper, green and red, paste and make a Mexican flag.
A pinata simple paper bag is fun too. You can copy the wings and the head of a bird on construction paper and can be pasted on a small paper bag.Then, just add fringed strips of construction paper to make a real cute bird pinata.
You could teach them the straw weaving son of bright colors. The eight students could make the straw looms. Just take two straws and cut them in half. Now insert a long piece of string through each straw, bend and tape down. Hold the straw with four strings down and then take a piece of wire and start inside and outside, inside and out, everybody, inside and outside, inside and out, everybody. They just keep doing this until they are finished. It's just a weave, it does not become a finished project.The most you can do is push the wire down on the strings, cut off the straws and tie the ends.
Are you in pearls? The Grade 8 students can die macarrons great food coloring, and I think a little vinegar. Once the beads are dry smaller chain right on the son and tie into a necklace.
Any of these work for you? I have more.
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