After-School Club: 3-D Papercrafts

Missed a couple of weeks of the after-school club, thanks to illness and school vacations, but we're back at it now!

I still wasn't feeling too hot this week,  so I didn't have a chance to plan my own craft, but I found some fun downloadable stuff online. If you check out this page on HP's site, they have lots of cool printable 3-D papercrafts; we used the How to Train Your Dragon and Madagascar characters. Very cool!

Disney's Family.com also has some neat papercrafts, like this cute Rapunzel from Tangled:

 

They're pretty time-intensive, so I recommend doing these with older kids, or younger kids with good scissor skills and patience.

We also used an adorable idea for owl collages from B.D. Designs, which I saw on Craftster.org. Thanks for the inspiration! Here's one of B.D. Designs' fantastic collages, to give you an idea of how neat these are:

Owl Collage by B.D. Designs

We didn't manage to finish any of these, either, or I'd post a pic of a finished product...but we had a lot of fun anyway! Plus the kids finally decided on a name for the club, and it's so cute: from now on, it's Monday Fundays!

Finally, I also booktalked a really great title, When You Reach Me. Of course, if you're into children's books, you've heard of it already -- it only won the Newbery Medal! But I actually hadn't read it till recently (bad librarian! No skipping Newbery winners, no!), and I wanted to promote it to the kids, since it's not like kids are exactly running out to grab Newbery winners on their own, necessarily... Anyway, it's a great book, and since the kids had recently been talking about A Wrinkle in Time, it seemed like the perfect time to tell them about this one.

Check back later this week for a Preschool Storytime post!