Welcome to the Creativity for Kids Craft of the Month! We will be providing you with a new craft each month. The craft will be a great activity for kids and parents to work on together. So get busy crafting!!!

In August, we will give you a great craft to help you get ready to go back to school.

Back-to-School Desk Accessories

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate - Parental supervision required for specific tasks
Estimated Completion Time: 90 minutes
Theme: Back-to-School

This month's craft is "Back-to-School Desk Accessories". We give you a great way to decorate your desk space with crazy critters. We have given you several different animals as examples, but please feel free to add in your creativity and use different critters of your own.

This craft does require parental supervision so we hope that parents and kids have a great time crafting together! If you have any questions while doing the craft, please click on Contact Us and we will respond as quickly as possible.

When you are done, we'd love to see your artwork and creativity. Please go to our gallery and upload your finished masterpiece! We can't wait to see it! Have fun crafting!

List of Materials

Paper Snapper! Materials:
  • Clip Style Clothes Pin
  • Poster board or cardboard from a gift box
  • Regular Scissors
  • Zig-Zag decorative scissors (optional)
  • Makers or colored pencils
  • Craft Glue
  • Yarn (optional)

Pencil Critter Materials:
  • Spaghetti box or Lasagna noodle box
  • Construction Paper
  • Foam Pieces (optional)
  • Pom Poms or small styrofoam balls
  • Nail (**This portion requires parental supervision.)
  • Pipe Cleaners (approx. 8-12)
  • Scissors
  • Paint

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