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We actually look forward to getting our local newspaper every Wednesday at my house. It is fun to see that is going on in the community and what it on sale at the various grocery stores near us. Once I have looked the paper over, my son and I use it to craft. Newspaper and store circulars make wonderful crafting material Recently used the paper to we make a preschool craft newspaper nest.
The nest is made simply of strips of newspaper and grocery store circulars cut into strips. The strips don’t have to be cut in straight lines. They can be cut with jagged edges and unique bends. The nest will look more life like if the strips are not uniform.
Cutting is one of the skills my son still needs to work on. I try to encourage holding the paper with one hand and cutting with the other to give his cutting hand some support.
Once you have gathered a pile of newspaper strips, you can start to glue them onto a piece of construction paper. I confess that I glued down a few strips before my son did. I wanted to create a bowl shape on the construction paper before my son started gluing. He didn’t seem to mind. If you have child that does mind you ʺhelpingʺ with a craft, the nest would look just fine with strips glued down wherever they want them.
The newspaper strips are just layered on top of each other until the area of the paper for the nest is covered. Some nests may end up with more paper than others.
After we finished the nest, we decided the nest needed some birds in it. I traced my sons hand and he traced mine to make the bodies of two red birds.
We later added a wing, beak, and eyeball to each of the birds. My son later mentioned that we should have added a worm. He felt the mama bird should have been feeding the baby bird. I think a worm will be added to this when my son gets a chance.
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Very neat craft. Thanks for sharing at Mom's Library. I am featuring it on iGameMom. http://igamemom.com/2013/05/08/mothers-day-crafts-collage-program-giveaway-mom-library/