love_my_family asked:
Any ideas for an arts and craft project for 3 year olds? Must be about the color yellow, for yellow day. I’m stumped!
Ann
Any ideas for an arts and craft project for 3 year olds? Must be about the color yellow, for yellow day. I’m stumped!
Ann
Tags: Arts Craft, Arts Crafts, Craft Project
Use yellow paper plates and have them glue on a ***** face and yellow feathers to make a fluffy *****. You’d need an orange triangle for beak and two black circles for eyes (or you could get the really large size wiggle eyes if you like). The feathers you should be able to find at a craft supply store.
have child wear something yellow, draw suns, eat only yellow stuff that day. like corn, lemon jello ,make cookies and decorate with yellow icing, make yellow flowers, funny hats with big yellow stars.
make canaries out of paper and let them put different yellow stuff on it like gems,feathers,markers,etc.
SCARY YELLOW ANACONDA SNAKE
Look up a photo of a yellow anaconda on Google.
Basic concept: you take strong yellow paper card stock and cut it into segments for a snake about 12 feet long. Join the segments together with brass split shaft fasteners (or string and buttons) and you have a foldable giant anaconda for your kid. Decorate with markers — bingo markers work really well but get the non-toxic kind and supervise your child while he/she uses them.
DETAILS
Go to the store and buy a sheet of yellow card stock they are about 2 feet by three feet and cost 50 cents to a dollar.
Plan the snake. Just improvise, Fold it or mark it in pencil into about five or six strips. Then in each pencil in a curvy outline. Don’t forget a head, forked tongue, and pointy tail.
Paint the snake before you cut it up.
After painting cut out the pieces.
Punch a single hole at the end of each segment. If the cardboard is not strong reinforce the hole with glued on pieces of card. I found the card surprisingly durable though. After a week of play non of the holes ripped out.
I used brass split shaft fasteners to join the pieces. They come in boxes of 100 for $1.75 and allow the joined pieces to swivel easily,. You only need the shorter ones. (It’s worth buying a couple of boxes as they’re useful for a number of things — but be sure your child is old enough not to swallow them or otherwise get hurt with them.) You feed the double shaft through the two pieces of card and split the ends. I put the head on the floor side so there would be less possibility of snags on th carpet. You can also use knotted string, or sew two buttons together through each hole with the thread providing the link.
One sheet of the card stock produces a gratifyingly enormous snake about ten feet long and as thick as your leg.
I used the scrap bits to make about a half dozen baby snakes and a dragon fly along with the “mother.”
It folds up easily for transport to school as well. Just use the joints as pivots.
Hint: get two squares of card stock and make a pair then two kids can play with them. good for half an hour to an hour or play with a young four-year-old and a friend.
For something more modest see the frog puppet at
There’s lots of other stuff on this site.
For the frog use THICK yellow paper (lasts longer than thin), staple it up, bingo marker on lots of spots, and doll it up with googly eyes, a long colorful tongue, and a row of paper teeth. Elliott’s (the toddler) had a painted on humanesque face, big teeth and a foot-long lurid turquoise tongue made from the plastic wrap on a ream of paper. I loved this toy and made about half a dozen different variants all told. Whiteout on black paper works great but don’t let your child inhale the whiteout fumes. Probably unhealthy, I would think. Simple, but fun to play with.
Heres a craft idea.
You can also have them paint using yellow paint.
Make yellow jellow jigglers
these could work for yellow day
(but use yellow paint instead of red)
Theres a few ideas.
The site I used is I use this site for all of my art’s and crafts project needs.
You can also make yellow collages. Let them cut yellow paper, ribbon, glitter and anything else yellow and glue it on paper.
Draw a kite shape and write YELLOW on it. then copy it and let the kids color it yellow. or just print this one out for each child. We used to do this at the daycare I used to work at. once the kids had decorated them paint, crayons, markers, glitter. We would hang them up on the wall to display till we moved on to the next color.
3 year olds are tricky! it has to be “fun”—
how about buy a bunch of yellow sponges…
and some google eyes and some blue paint!
make spongebobs…
then… you could eat bananas for snack.