Jack O’ Lantern Weaving Mats

jack o lantern weaving mats

Weave beautiful bright patterned strips through lovely weaving mat pumpkins, pre-cut for a ready-to-use fine motor activity!

Weaving mats are a great way to encourage fine motor development in young children. It’s a skill that’s inherent to finger work as tying the laces on one’s shoe or learning to use a writing tool.

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The Jack-O’Lantern Weaving Mat kits come with 24 pumpkin weaving mats, and several different patterned strips.

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Weave the strips horizontally across the mat, going over and under each progressive slot. As you start the next row, be sure to begin weaving the opposite way that was done in the row prior. So for instance, if you started the row by first weaving under, start the next row by weaving over.

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Here is a close-up of the process as one of our art campers finishes up her pumpkin weaving mat.

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You can choose several different patterns of weaving strips that are all thematically printed to accentuate the pumpkin weaving mat.

jack o lantern weaving mats

Each weaving mat is accompanied with glowing Jack-O’-Lantern features in various shapes and designs. Mix and match the features to make a unique Jack-O’-Lantern!

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The last step is to decorate the pumpkin faces with two additional leaf graphics. Paste them directly onto the pumpkin face.

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Paste the green vines to the tops of the pumpkins. Use the blunt edge of a pair of scissors to curl the vines. You can paste the pumpkin weaving mats onto a length of ribbon to use as a classroom decoration!

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Amazing Animal Paper Halloween Costume

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Make a simple, quick and cute Halloween costume from our R15256 Amazing Animal Paper! Our step-by-step photos will show you some easy tricks for cutting out and assembling the paper costume. 

Age: 5+

Duration: 10 minutes

Learning Objectives: Gain fine motor development through tracing and scissor skills. Use simple concepts, such as hand tracing and folding, to make an effective paper costume. Incorporate recognizable animal patterns into costume creations.

You’ll Need:

R15256 Amazing Animal Paper

• Tape

• Scissors

• Pencil

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Make this a quick paper costume for your students who will be celebrating Halloween in your classroom this year. This will make it easier for you to get through your day on Halloween without worrying about managing all your students in costume. The best part is that the costume is made from accessorizing, so all your students can look like their favorite animal without the need to fully dress up.

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Our full range of Amazing Animal Paper features a variety of different animal skins and patterns.

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Choose 2 sheets of your favorite animal skin paper. You will need only 1 sheet to make your animal hat, and another sheet to make your animal paws.

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Select 1 sheet of paper and fold in half horizontally. Unfold, and cut along the fold line so that you separate the sheet of paper into two halves.

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Take one of the paper sheet halves and fold it horizontally in half.

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Unfold and cut along the fold line to separate the half sheet into another 2 halves. This will form 2 strips of paper.

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Place the paper strips side by side. Tape the edges together.

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Join the opposite edges together and wrap around your head to test the length. Once you are satisfied with the fit, tape the edges to secure. This will form the base of your headband.

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Take the discarded half of the paper sheet and fold vertically in half. Draw an animal ear shape. I’ve drawn two triangle-shaped ears to look like jungle cat ears.

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Tape the ears to the sides of the headband. This will be your Amazing Animal hat!

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Now to make the paws! Take your second sheet of paper and fold vertically in half.

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Trace your hand from the edge of the paper. I suggest you try to make the hand look more like a paw by widening the shapes of the fingers.

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Cut out the traced paws.

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Use the remaining scrap piece to cut out two wristbands.

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Tape the bottom of the paw to the wristband.

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Wrap the wristband around and tape the edges together.

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Now your costume is ready to be worn! Slip the paws onto each hand and wear your headband ears to transform into your favorite jungle animal! Tip: You can use face paint to add on a nose, whiskers and freckles on students’ faces to add another element to their animal costumes.

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Life on Seaside Farms uses our True To Life Human X-Rays!

As part of their “Fall Fun” special post, the Life on Seaside Farms II blog posted a photo of their children playing with our R5911 True To Life Human X-Rays! This science product is a great way to introduce younger grades to basic properties of the human body.

Learn about bone arrangements and how the skeleton structures organs and other important tissues! In addition, learn how the skeleton is important for giving shape to our bodies.

The post was made on October 30, 2011 and can be found here at “Fall Fun“!

The blog post features other great ideas for incorporating Halloween thrills into your daily learning schedule! From decorating the front porch with spooky ghost ornaments to raking fall leaves and learning about the human body through vivid x-rays, this post has a great round up of ideas.

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Illuminate the details in the R5911 True To Life Human X-Rays by placing the x-rays up against a light source, such as a window or a light table!

Read our guide here for more ideas on activities to do with the True to Life Human X-Rays!

Thanks to Seaside Farms for their post!

Images and original post © Life on Seaside Farms Part II.

This post was not sponsored for a review. At LittleFingersBigArt, our mission is to present to our readers and viewers the newest and most creative craft ideas that fans of Roylco have made on their own. Our goal is to allow you and other educators and parents to reuse our products in fun ways so that children always get the best educational experience from them!

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