- Program Goals
- Encourage creativity and problem-solving
- Allow children to experience different art products and styles
- Develop fine motor abilities
- Attendance: 35
Project: Suncatchers
How it works: Kids cut or rip tissue paper and then tape it across the cut-outs, kind of like iris folding only much simpler. Lots of them like to hang their creations around their necks like necklaces afterwards. I only use markers in the community room b/c they're easier to clean off the tables than crayons.
Supplies:
- Paper cut-outs (recycling! I save all the paper cut outs from die cutting to use for this but I also cut some from my stash of shirt cardboard. The kids get the die cut shapes to keep as a bonus or we use them later.)
- Tissue paper
- Yarn
- Markers
- Tape, hole punchers, scissors

- Thick pasteboard strips (donated supplies)
- Construction paper (regular and 9x18)
- Scrapbook paper
- Paper cutter
- Tape (regular, packing tape, duct tape), staples, scissors
- Paper mat idea from Make and Takes
- Paper
- 9x18 purple, pink, red
- handmade paper (donated by a patron)
- die cut paper hearts
- markers, sequins, glitter glue
- scissors, glue, popsicle sticks (for spreading), sink
Evaluation