Handy Crafts for Kids

Paper Necklace

1 inch squares of thick colored paper or Bristol board with a hole in the center of each square.
Colored drinking straws cut in half inch lengths.
Give the child a long needle with a course thread and let him threadle one inch paper squares and half in ch lengths of straw alternately.


Paper made Stars

4 stripes of stiff colored paper 6" × 1/4" . 12 gold papers centers about 1 inch on diameter, cut in a pretty pattern. 
Paste colored stripes as shown and paste the center and edge pieces on both sides of star.
Shape the tips and hang.


Farther Christmas

Take a semi circular piece of rather stiff red paper paste a small round of white paper for a face  little away from the straight edge. Mark eyes, nose , mouth on face. Paste some cotton wool in shape of beard. Put a belt and hat.
Fold back, two ends and paste or fasten together.


Paper chain

Half inch wide stripes of colored in a varity of colors. Paste at right angles to each other. Two stripes of the same color and fold over each other. 
Paste another two stripes of a different colored paper at the end of the previous stripes and continue folding over.
Pasting more colors in this manner.