Craft: Paper-bag Owl

I saw this at my daughter's school for the before and after school program. They have the owls mounted on a tableau with a tree made out of tissue paper. Before we had snow, there was green tissue paper for grass. After our first snowfall, they changed it to white tissue paper, and added some to the tree branches as well.

What I liked about the craft was the use of simple geometric shapes, as well as handprints, to create the features of the owl. You can use the craft to reinforce shapes, colours, sizes, and cutting skills.

For each owl, you will need: one small brown paper bag, yellow, orange, black and brown construction paper, a glue stick, some string, and scissors.

Draw two circles on the yellow construction paper, and two smaller circles on the black construction paper. Draw three triangles on the orange construction paper. Trace your child's handprints on the brown construction paper.

You can cut out the shapes yourself, or you can have your child practice cutting out the shapes. You might want to have some backup shapes, if you are not confident in your child's cutting abilities. Besides, he or she might enjoy cutting out shapes, but still choose to glue your lovely forms on the paper bag.

Glue the yellow circles onto the front of the paper bag, at the closed end. Glue the black circles on top of the yellow circles. Glue the hands to the back, for the wings. Use the orange triangles for the beak, and the feet. You should blow up the bag, and gather together the opening before you glue the feet triangles. Use a piece of string to keep the opening together. If you want to attach the owl to a stick, you can have it as a puppet.

This is a fairly quick craft, but you can use the shapes, and colours to do a mini lesson. You can also do some size comparisons.

 

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