Fun Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft for Preschoolers
With the summer month upon us, I feel it is slowly time for some ADORABLE Scarecrow Crafts! Let’s make this super duper cute Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft for Preschoolers! The best bit? It is a super duper cute “ROCKING paper plate craft too”! You know how we love those rocking crafts. They are super cute to make and extra fun to play with!
Educational Opportunities for making this Paper Plate Scarecrow
All our crafts are designed to simply be fun! It is a great craft to make from the late summer onwards – be it as a Harvest Festival Craft or simple Fall Craft for Preschoolers.
Of course, there are lots of educational benefits to crafting too. For this scarecrow craft your little ones can:
- Practice cutting skills (especially if they cut out the scarecrow hair, you may wish to help with the other elements)
- Talk about shapes – circles (eyes). triangle (nose), rectangle (parts of the hat)
- Talk about colors – you could focus on only using primary colors etc
- Have fun painting!
As this craft is also a “rocking” paper plate craft, you can introduce the bery basic concept of motion and cause of and effect! Making this a mini STEAM project too!
Supplies needed to make this Preschooler Scarecrow Craft
The supplies for this craft are pretty simple:
- Paper Plates
- Paints in desired skin tone
- Colorful paper for the scarecrow’s hat and facial features
- Scissors
- Gluestick
- Pens
You can learn how to make these super cute preschooler scarecrow rockers in our instructional video tutorial here, or follow the step by step instructions below!
How to make a Paper Plate Scarecrow that Rocks!
Paint the Paper Plate
Paint the paper plate in your desired skin tone! This is a lovely opportunity to customise the color of your paper plate to your children’s skin tone.
Shape the paper plate
Fold your paper plate in half.
Trim the shape a little. Don’t cut the FULL edge of, but keep more on the bottom and trim the sides. This has two purporses – one to gvie you a bigger “face shape” and two, to give you a little weight on either side of your scarecrow – for better ROCKING!
Cut your Scarecrow Features from paper
Now it is time to have fun with your colored paper and cut out lots of scarecrow features. You will need:
- Some scarecrow hair (strips of paper folded in half)
- Some scarecrow eyes, nose and rosey cheeks
- The large scarecrow hat – this needs to be the full with of your paper plate, then cut down to shape the top
- Scarecrow hat “band” in green
- A scarecrow hat flower or other detail
Assembling your scarecrow rocking paper plate
Make the hat
Add the hair – dimply fold your paper strips in half, but an angle. If neededyou can give the hair a trim too!
Add your paper hat.
Next you will add scarecrow eyes, triangle nose and rosy cheeks!
Finally add the finishing touches with a black pen. You will need some black pupiles and the “classic” hashed scarecrow mouth!
And finished! Now make your scarecrow rock! (You may wish to add a little tape, stuck into a circle, onto the inside of the paper plate, so that it doesn’t open up flat when rocking).
As you probably know, we LOVE Scarecrow crafts and have many more crafts for you to explore.. our favourites include the Printable Scarecrow Puppet (incl. a freebie), the popsicle stick scarecrows (how cute is that little crow) and of the Toilet Paper Roll Scarecrows!
And you can explore even more Scarecrow Crafts here, as well as more wonderful Paper Plate Activities for Preschool!
