Carnival Cardboard Giant Eye Glasses

 Instead of the usual masks for Carnival we made giant eye glasses. We cut them out of cardboard and then painted them. We decorated them with some paint and glitter. We punched out holes for the children to see out of and added string for securing them to their heads. 

*our take on original idea-Art Attack

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Cardboard and Crepe Paper Valentines

               

I cut out heart shapes out of cardboard. Cardboard proved to be too thick for first graders to cut out on their own. We traced the heart on to colored printer paper cut it out and glued it to the cardboard. The children made crepe paper balls and glued them on to the heart. Made two hole and strung white satin ribbon and made a bow (leave some slack for hanging).

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