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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Mittens Paper Craft

This craft is suitable for households that don't celebrate Christmas (and for those that do!).   A good story to read while making this craft is "The Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens". (close 3 kittens story when done reading to return to this screen)

CLICK here to view a larger photo of the craft, made by mommy and coloured with crayons or HERE to view Tasha's (Age 5), also coloured with crayons.

Mittens Craft

Materials:

  • a printer,
  • a piece of paper... I always prefer to use a heavy paper (like construction paper), but it isn't necessary.
  • some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
  • scissors,
  • glue.

Optional materials:

  • fun foam,
  • something hard as a base (a margarine container lid or cardboard from a cereal box work well),
  • sparkle glue or sparkles,
  • ribbon, string or wool.

Instructions

  • Print out the template of choice.
     
  • Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces.
     
  • There is a left and right mitten, decoration (piece with hearts and snowflake) and cuff (striped piece).
     
  • You can colour the decorations with sparkle glue or sparkles if desired.
     
  • If you want, you can trace the left and right mitten template pieces onto a piece of fun foam to make a more permanent craft.  Or you can glue the mitten template pieces to a hard base (cardboard)
     
  • Glue the left decoration and right decoration onto the left mitten and right mitten respectively.
     
  • Glue the left cuff and right cuff onto the left mitten and right mitten respectively.
     
  • At this point, you can either:
    • Attach one end of a string, ribbon or wool to each mitten so you can hang on the Christmas tree (either by poking a hole in the base and threading the string through or by attaching well with tape).  It looks like the mittens little kids wear so they don't lose them
         

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:   Color  or  B&W

 

 

Printable version of these instructions