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PAPER PLATE BLACK CAT
Grade: K-6
Age: 4-10
Written by: Amanda Formaro
[Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children.]
www.craftsbyamanda.com
Isn’t he cute? Here kitty-kitty! This black cat won’t bring you bad luck and he’s a fun project for Halloween.
What You Need:
- 1 paper plate
- Black paint
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
- Tape
- White craft glue
- 2 large green wiggle eyes
- 1 small pink pom-pom
- Pattern [click for pattern]
What You Do:
- Paint the backside of the paper plate black and let dry.
- Turn the plate over to the unpainted side. Cut out the body using the pattern. Cut out the tail and head from the remaining plate. Set scraps aside.
- Use tape to attach the tail and the head to the back of the plate, using the photo as a guide.
- Glue on wiggle eyes and pink pom-pom for the nose.
- From the scraps of black plate, cut 6 thin whiskers of equal length and glue to the cat’s face.
Tip: Colored wiggle eyes are available at your local craft supply store.
►More Holiday/Seasonal Arts and Crafts
Recommended Books:
Look What You Can Make With Paper Plates
This is a fun craft book for any age.
The illustrations in the book are easy to follow and kids can make up their own designs using some of the ideas in the book.
Little Hands Paper Plate Crafts
Kids join the adventure of here-to-here with a paper plate compass, an out-of-this-world flying saucer, a movable vehicle, and a spinning helicopter. Plus, stories to read when the projects are complete tie reading and doing together in the minds of emergent readers. All of this in a paper plate craft book? Why, yes!
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Halloween
Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a variety of creepy and scary Halloween creatures such as witches, bats, monsters - and more. Step-by-step instructions for drawing Halloween cartoon figures and objects.
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