Craft
ideas for play
Themed preschool activities
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Dragonfly craft
Combine threading net wings with paint dabbing,
foraging for clusers of sycamore seeds with snipping paper straws and gluing
for creative collage and disovery about these stunningly beautiful insects,
even though they could be considered a little fearsome!
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Links are to amazon.co.uk
Dragonfly threading
300gsm white card
Netting
Large safety needles and white cotton yarn
Metallic paint dabbers
Free craft printable
Dragonfly outline template
Dragonfly threading how to
Print the templates pieces in card and cut out.
Lay a line of glue around the outer wing frame and position a section
of fabric netting over the top.
Allow to dry or for a more robust frame use a 2nd wing outline and sandwich
the fabric into place.
Attach the wing to the body thorax.
Thread a safety needle with yarn and create any vein patterns.
Use paint dabbers to decorate.
Add 6 legs if wanted by drawing on the underside or attaching strips of
paper.
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June and July is a great time to be on the lookout for windfall
sycamore seeds or if you have a heavily laden tree, pick a few clusters and
relieve it of its bounty a tiny bit early!
Have gloves ready for children who'll be rummaging under trees
and as always please follow your own hand hygiene routines to stay safe :)
Sycamore seeds aren't on the RHS's
list of plants potentially dangerous to humans
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More
activity ideas
Take prints from the sycamore leaves (which also sterilise) and build
a tree display for the season!
Use dragonfly books to examine this mighty insect
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