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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC Children's craft ideas using outline templates Please adapt these sheets and enjoy all the printables are available for personal non-commercial use and are always offered here as secondary to children's own ideas. Print them to inspire game activities of your own, offer them to children alongside blank paper and the invitation to create from their own imagination. Use them to expand and extend any current interests that children are showing and to support their language skills, conversation and vocabulary. Links to amazon.co.uk are through the site's affiliate account  Qwerty play - keyboard layout printable Support children's computer building, model making, language, literacy and mark making activities. Outline templates added here ..   Tap or faucet outline activity Use paint sicks to decorate and pens to record children's meaningful words. Other learning opportunities include opposites: left right, on off, hot cold and symbolic colours red and blue.    Lock and key outline template   Use this sheet to promote tracing around real keys and taking wax crayon rubbings of them. Resources:  crayons - keys    Acorn cup painting  string - heavy cardstock A nice activity for the autumn where acorns are beginning to fall from the trees and hidden away by winter ready squirrels.  Orange segments outline template Portion sharing, fruit exploration and crative colour filling are all  on offer in this activity idea.  Paintbrush dip levels - outline template   TOP  Beanstalk outline template  curling ribbon - leaf paint stampers  Food plate and cutlery outline template Collage, colour with pencils and crayons or laminate and use with playdough.    Camera outline template  Print and use as a role play props or recording a view ..  Parasol construction   Use this jigsaw style outline template to talk about the summer, sun safety and places that parasols are most commonly seen TOP  Postcard and stamp outline Promote sharing information through the use of postcards, notelets and the process involved with having messages delivered to other people and places. Resources needed:  pencils - stick glue - ink stamps  Sail away ... explore fabrics, and materials that can capture the wind and propel a boat .. Resources needed:  materials -  glue - scissors - bellows  Activity: explore 3D and 2D boat outlines, wind as a force and the properties of materials that capture the wind to propel boats.    Drinking straw maze game Resources needed:  drinking straws  -  glue - scissors - bead   Activity: cut up your drinking straws and create a maze of edges. Glue into place with tape or tack. Use a variety of ping pong balls, beads and marbles that test the maze's strength, width and size, and challenge children's thinking.  Balloon outline template Resources needed:  dabbers  - foil -  glue - scissors - eyes   Activity: fill the balloon outline with personalised patterns. Use wavy, straight, zig-zag and circular designs, ink stamps and scissors to explore . Learning: Understanding marks have meaning, Creative expression through a selection and placement process. TOP  The world - planet Earth outline template.  Resources needed:  laminator - dough -  glitter - small atlas  Activity:  laminate a sheet to protect it from the dough, build and construct areas of land and water. Learning: Exploring fish as living creatures Scale formation patterns and order visual perspective - top down view       Swimming goldfish outline template Resources needed:  mirrors  - foil -  glue - scissors - eyes   Activity: using poster paint, pencils or crayons fill the fish body with scales. Learning: Exploring fish as living creatures Scale formation patterns and order visual perspective - top down view    Space ship outline template  Resources needed:  plastic bowls - aluminium foil - stars Activity: mix a solution of paint, liquid soap and water and using drinking straws blow into the mixtures to create a mound of coloured paint bubbles. Learning: Opposites: night and day - light and dark Space words: sun moon stars planets Imaginative play and creative activities TOP    Broken washing line collage outline  Resources needed:  string - rulers - pencils/crayons Activity: mix a solution of paint, liquid soap and water and using drinking straws blow into the mixtures to create a mound of coloured paint bubbles. Learning: problem solving measurements and scissor cutting skills sharing information        Soap and dish outline template and  blow - suck bubble paint safety check  Resources needed:  Poster paint - washing up liquid Activity: mix a solution of paint, liquid soap and water and using drinking straws blow into the mixtures to create a mound of coloured paint bubbles. Learning: verbs / action words impression and imprint markings discussion on soap, hand washing hygiene  Spoon outline template and designs Resources needed:  wooden spoons - collage items Activity: use the spoon outline sheet as the design stage before transfering crafting to the wooden spoons. Learning: explore design and planning processes self-directed creative activity choosing and positioning items that dress and decorate. TOP  Butterfly puppet   Resources needed:  drinking straws - adhesive pads Activity: collage and colour fill the wings and burtterfly body and cut out. Snip the two inset lines and slot the straw through. Attach the wings using double sided tape or foam pads. Learning: Refining scissor control Imaginative role play Sharing information about nature, lifecycles and insects  Tortoise outline template  Resources needed:   craft foam - glue Activity: use the pre-drawn or children's own interpretations of a hedgehog outline and fill with lines of tool dipped paint. Creat a body of skpikes that help to protect these mammals. Learning: Sharing information about nature and pond life Naming flower and plant parts refining scissor skills exploring malleable materials and colours   Lily pad outline templates Resources needed:  paper cups - yellow craft foam -playdough Activity:use the pre-drawn or children's own interpretations of a hedgehog outline and fill with lines of tool dipped paint. Creat a body of skpikes that help to protect these mammals. Learning: Sharing information about nature and pond life Naming flower and plant parts refining scissor skills exploring malleable materials and colours TOP    Hedgehog outline template Resources needed:  Poster paint - mathematical equipment Activity: use the pre-drawn or children's own interpretations of a hedgehog outline and fill with lines of tool dipped paint. Creat a body of skpikes that help to protect these mammals. Learning: Native animals and wildlife names Discovering what nocturnal means Creating art using abstract tools Marks have meaning    Blackkberry vine and leaf outline template Resources needed:  Poster paint and  bramble leaves Activity:Finger paint blackberry fruits, make and take imprint impressions from leaves that have been painted on both sides and placed betwen two sheets of paper or one sheet doubled over. Learning: Plant names and part names Wild, seasonal fruit   Marks have meaning  Rocking horse outline template Resources needed:  coloured yarn - glue - scissors Activity:cut and tie lengths of yarn and redress the rocking horse's tail, forelock and mane Learning: Traditional and modern toys Exploring cotton yarn as a crft medium Refining scissor skills TOP  Naturally moulted sheep outline template Resources needed:  cotton puffs - glue - craft stems Activity: use cotton balls to show how some breeds of sheep moult naturally through the spring so that they are cool in the summer, and how their woll starts to grow back in the autumn so that they are warm in winter. Learning: weather and season names how animals change through the seasons   A waiting vase outline template Resources needed:  collage materials - glue - craft stems Activity: using real, dried, artificial and craft materials create a vase filled with children's imagined flower creations. Learning: construction and design skills material properties colour names and mark making sharing experiences from home    Bird and folded wings outline template   Resources needed:  sticky pads - scissors - pencils - cord Activity: cut out the bird body and snip the wing insertion line. Use the lower wing lines as a guide to folding, backwards and forwards creating a concertina effect. Slot the folds through the body until halfway. Then fold them upwards, then each opposite side downwards. Place a foam oad on each side of the body, attach the cord ends to each ten press the folds together. Fan out the wings and hang. Learning: Traditional paper crafting Explore folding and the properties this  creates. Refining hand-eye coordination and scissor skills  TOP  Spiral snail outline template   Resources needed:  sticky tape - scissors - pencils/crayons Activity: design and colour fill the snake outline and then cut around the spiralling shape.  Turn the paper cut-out into a role play prop by taping a short length of paper under the head area, wrapping the ends around a finger and then securing them in place with another piece of tape. Learning: Traditional and modern toys Exploring cotton yarn as a creative tool Refining scissor skills   TOP     More activity pages to visit on silkysteps ..