Fall is the best time for so many things; football, holidays, and fun preschool crafts. In class we've been talking recently about all things fall and getting ready for our Thanksgiving Feast. Our students at Little Builders Preschool, a ministry of YWAM (Youth With A Mission) San Diego/Baja, are in charge of decorations. We've been extremely busy getting ready and these Silly Scarecrows were too hard to pass up. Plus who doesn't love handprint crafts. Parents eat that stuff up, am I right?? They are super cute though so I can't complain!
One of our teachers this quarter saw these on Pinterest and we decided to try our hand at making them. {See what I did there, hehe?} I think ours turned out super cute, what do you think?
One of our teachers this quarter saw these on Pinterest and we decided to try our hand at making them. {See what I did there, hehe?} I think ours turned out super cute, what do you think?
We didn't take any pictures while we were making, I wonder why? I mean have you ever painted the hands of small children & tried to get them to put them in a specific spot on a piece of paper while NOT getting paint all over the place. Totally easy right?!? I obviously have NO excuse for not taking pictures, I know!
I did steal/borrow this pic from craftymorning.com to show you how you need to paint the hand to make the scarecrow look totally awesome!
You will need 3 colors of paint to make this happen; a face color, a shirt color and a pant color. We used tan for the face, orange for the boys and purple for the girls shirts and blue for the pants aka jeans.
You need to paint the palm of the child's hand with the face color leaving some room along the edge nearest the fingers. Paint the edge and the middle three fingers (pointer, middle and ring fingers) with the pant color and the thumb and pinky fingers, with the palm edge, in the shirt color.
When you position the child's hand on the paper, they should put their middle 3 fingers together while spreading their thumb and pinking out. You will also be placing the hand facing downward on the paper so that the scarecrow is facing the correct way.
We decided to add some "straw" to ours to make it look a bit more authentic. We used some leftover yarn pieces from a lion craft and it worked out great. I also had the kids draw in the faces. In our finished product, I made sure to show you what it looked like before we added the straw and after so you could make your own choice on which way you like it better.
I did steal/borrow this pic from craftymorning.com to show you how you need to paint the hand to make the scarecrow look totally awesome!
You will need 3 colors of paint to make this happen; a face color, a shirt color and a pant color. We used tan for the face, orange for the boys and purple for the girls shirts and blue for the pants aka jeans.
You need to paint the palm of the child's hand with the face color leaving some room along the edge nearest the fingers. Paint the edge and the middle three fingers (pointer, middle and ring fingers) with the pant color and the thumb and pinky fingers, with the palm edge, in the shirt color.
When you position the child's hand on the paper, they should put their middle 3 fingers together while spreading their thumb and pinking out. You will also be placing the hand facing downward on the paper so that the scarecrow is facing the correct way.
We decided to add some "straw" to ours to make it look a bit more authentic. We used some leftover yarn pieces from a lion craft and it worked out great. I also had the kids draw in the faces. In our finished product, I made sure to show you what it looked like before we added the straw and after so you could make your own choice on which way you like it better.
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Make sure you check out our Preschool Printables, Preschool Science or Preschool Crafts for more inspiration.
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Leave a comment below with some other preschool crafts you would like to see & join our new mailing list to receive bonus resources and reminders to visit when something new is uploaded.
Make sure you check out our Preschool Printables, Preschool Science or Preschool Crafts for more inspiration.
Here are a few to get you started:
- Preschool Craft: Homemade Paper
- Preschool Crafts: Let's Go Fly A Kite
- Character Costumes: Dr Seuss
- Preschool Crafts: Cardboard Tube Snowmen
- Preschool Printables: Hidden Sight Words
- Preschool Printables: The Solar System Inner Planets PreK Pack
- Preschool Printables: Fun Facts About Apples
- Preschool Printables: Handwriting Practice - Uppercase
- Preschool Printables: Bonus Freebie - Trace a Shape
Also, for more worksheets & printables packs, check out my new TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) store. I am uploading things as I create them and I have a few teacher friends testing them out in their classrooms as well.
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