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DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids:
Sunshine Mask Craft

This is a cute but very simple craft.  I think it would be a nice one for younger kids to make for Halloween if they're not really into wearing a big fancy costume (both my girls were like that at age 2).

It would also be nice for a class or daycare to make for a spring or summer party.  They could parade around like sunshines and sing songs/rhymes like "You are My Sunshine" or "Mr. Sun". 

It's fun to do with the flower mask too. 

 

Materials:

  • a paper plate or a circle of cardboard (see the turkey wreath for how to make a circle of cardboard) 
  • Construction paper (yellow and orange)
  • glue
  • popsicle stick, tongue depressor or unsharpened pencil

Instructions:

  • Print out the template or just cut out triangles from construction paper (we folded the paper in quarters and got 4 triangles per page.
     
  • You can decorate the triangles with markers or sparkles to make the craft a bit more complicated.
     
  • Have an adult cut the center out of the paper plate so the child's head becomes the center of the sunshine.
      
  • Glue the triangles all the way around the edge - we glued all the orange ones first so the tips were just touching, then we glued the yellow ones so they overlapped the orange).


 

  • Glue on a popsicle stick or unsharpened pencil as a handle (you might want to add a bit of tape to reinforce). 
     
  • Now the child can peek through the sunshine!   

  

Templates:  

  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
       
  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). 

 

Template - yellow    (color)  or   (B&W)

Template - orange   (color)  or   (B&W)

 

Printable version of these instructions