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Star or Starfish Crafts Preschool Printable Activities

Materials:

• printer
• paper
• coloring tools for B&W template
• scissors
• glue stick
• additional materials suggested below

• Shapes
• The star -- in outer space
• Ocean or Seashore - The starfish
• Nursery rhymes: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or Star Light, Star Bright
• Christmas -- the Wise Men follow a Star

Instructions:

Activity > Craft 1 > Easy Shapes Star Craft (7 piece)

Tell the children they will make a star. Have the children hold their finished star as they sing your choice of nursery rhyme, or Christmas song.

When presenting this activity for a Christmas theme, discuss the significance of the star as it relates to the holiday. Adapt the colors and decorations for a starfish theme. In this activity children will have fun practicing shapes: circle, pentagon, and triangle.

• Print and cut out template 1 in color or black and white version on paper, card stock or color construction paper. Select yellow for a star (in outer space), or your choice for a starfish.
• Print template 2 (positioning template) for the youngest children to use the craft as a cut & past activity.
• Learning activities before assembly > counting and sorting
  • Ask and help children to identify the shapes and colors
  • Count and sort the shapes by type.
• Encourage to paste the template pieces to a white paper if intending to use as an ornament, or to blue paper for a landscape in a night sky or lighter blue color for a starfish theme.
• Use the small image provided on the template as a guideline for assembly.
• Assemble in this order: (1) pentagon, (2) circle centered on pentagon, (3) triangles to edge of pentagon sides.
  Additional ideas:
• Children can add glitter glue, small pieces of aluminum foil to embellish the star, and add googly eyes on top of the printed eyes.
• Tie a ribbon or string to hang as a holiday ornament or glue to a craft stick/Popsicle stick to make a hand puppet or fairy wand.
• To reinforce, read and sing a nursery rhyme again after the craft has been completed, and read at least once a day during the week using the rhyme poster and finished craft
• Place the finished craft in a place of honor at child's eye level.

Activity > Craft 2 > Easy Star Craft (6 piece)

This is an easier star for younger children, ages 3 and under. The star is one piece.

• Have the children position the facial features first over the star.
• Adult can make pencil markings on the positioning.
• Children can use a glue stick on the markings, and paste each one at a time from the top and down.
  

Templates:

Close template window after printing to return to this screen. Review the printing tips below.

Template 1    color    or    B&W

Template 2    color    or    B&W
(#2 optional positioning template)

Template    color    or    B&W

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