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Paper Plate Holiday Wreaths
Version to use with children between 8 and 12 years old

What you will need:

• Large paper plates
• Green washable paints
• Paint brushes
• Paint shirts
• Disposable cups with water
• Red construction paper
• Green construction paper
• White construction paper
• Yellow construction paper
• Orange construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue Sticks

* When the children get to be 8 years old, they are quite capable of doing entire crafts from start to finish with minimal help. Give them all the above materials and see what wonderful wreathes appear!

Instructions:

Step one: Have the children cut out the inner part of the paper plate, leaving a “wreath”.

Step two: Using the green paints, have the children complete cover the paper plate with various hues of green. Set aside to dry.

Step three: While the wreath is drying, the children can cut out leaf shapes from the green construction paper, berries from the red construction paper, candles from either red or white construction paper, and flames from the yellow and orange construction paper. (Other decorations can be cut out of other colored paper.)

Step four: Once the wreath is dry, all the decorations can be glued onto the plate with the glue stick.

Step five: With the glue stick, have the children stick the candle so that it can be seen in the center of the wreath.

Step six: With the glue stick, have the children stick the flame onto the top of the candle.

Extras can be given for wreaths made with this age group. Pine needles, pine cones, small circular stickers for ornaments, small bows for decorations, and construction paper tree light shapes can be glued on just as the leaves and berries are.