Fine Motor Craft for Kids

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Craft

(Age level: 4-8 years)

Material

·         2 Paper plates- $3.48

·         Construction Paper (1 white, pink, and brown)- $6.88

·         Scissors- $2.00

·         Glue stick- $1.97

·         Pen, pencil, or black marker- $.97

·         Scotch tape- $3.31

Instructions

1.      Using one blade of the scissors, poke a hole through the paper plate a little below the halfway point in the middle of the paper plate. This will be where you start cutting the mouth out.

2.      Cut the mouth out on the bottom side of the plate (the side you DO NOT eat on). Make sure it’s big enough to fit your cookies. You can make the mouth look however you want. Refer to the picture for an example.

3.      Cut the nose out of the pink construction paper. Again, make it how you want it, but I cut a triangle for mine.

4.      Using a glue stick, glue the nose a little bit above the mouth we cut out.

5.      Using the pink construction paper, cut out the pink part of the ear. Remember, you have two ears!

6.      When you are done cutting out the pink ears, use these to trace another set of ears on white construction paper, so they are the same shape, but make sure the white ears are bigger than the pink. Cut out your second pair of ears. The pink will be the inside of the ears and the white will be the outside.                                                                                  

7.      Using glue sticks, glue the pink part of the ear onto the white part.

8.      Glue one ear on each side of the top of the paper plate.

9.      Using a pencil, pen, or marker, draw the eyes and whiskers. You can also draw the lines that connect from the nose to the mouth.

10.  Tape your plates together so that the top part of the plates (the part you eat on) are facing together. Your plate should be hollow on the inside. Put one piece of tape in between the ears and one on each side. Do not tape the bottom.

11.  Time to cut out your cookies! Using your brown construction paper, cut out circles small enough to fit through the mouth of your mouse. You can decorate them to make them look like chocolate chip cookies!

12.  You’re done! Now you can feed your mouse cookies by putting the cookies in the mouth. Since we did not tape the bottom of the plates together, we can get the cookies back out!

Kids can practice grasping the cookies to put into the mouth, which builds fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills.