I am super fortunate to have an extremely creative para in my classroom-she always comes up with the cutest craft ideas for my classroom. As someone with limited creativity and no art skills, I depend on her to make my classroom look cute. Tomorrow is Dr. Suess’ Read Across America Day and we made these adorable and easy balloon crafts for our bulletin board.
Every student was given the balloon template and a baggie of squares cut from construction paper. Next time I will have the kids cut the pieces themselves, but to save time this round we did it.
The kids used a glue stick to adhere all of the pieces to the balloon template. The kids really enjoyed mixing up the colors and we had a variety of construction paper sizes for different needs. Each kid also got a pre-sized piece of brown construction paper to fill in the basket portion of the balloon. When the balloon was finished, we went over the top with a glue stick just to help the pieces stick more.
At the end we wrote “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” around the balloon. You could also have the kids do this piece. It is a super simple craft to pull together and super cute!
Here is the balloon if you want to do this craft in your classroom. Thanks to my para for hand-drawing this for us! If you use this in your classroom, please tag your photos with #adaptationstation so we can see them!