Make Uh-Oh! puppets. Devise adventures for your dinosaurs, and stage a puppet show.

Uh-Oh! coloring pages

click for full-size image, print out...

and color!

Nutcracker doll paper dolls. Click on the picture for a full size image & print on heavy weight paper.

Design more costumes for your paper doll!

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and color!

Brainstorm!

Rembrandt tries on many different hats.

Make a list of as many different kinds of hats as you can. It might help to think about why people wear hats, and make categories such as 'uniform hats' or 'sports hats.' Draw your favorites, or make a paper hat and decorate it. Find directions here: paper hat

Draw someone wearing a hat, and make up a story about why they are wearing that hat.

Draw a character, and then make many different hats for them out of recycled paper catalogs or newspapers, feathers, fabric scraps, or whatever you find around the house.

Make hats for yourself and pretend to be different people. How would you walk? How would you talk? What would you do?

Mythical Beast Marionette Theatre directions:

Print out the beast patterns on heavy weight paper, and decorate them. Punch holes where indicated and fasten loosely with paper fasteners. Tape a length of string to the head, and tail. Then, find a cake box, or a large shoe box and decorate it to look like the beast's habitat.

Here is the Fu Lion, looking boring because no one has colored him or decorated his habitat! I drew some red lines to show you how the string is attached to the lion and the beads at the top of the box.

Click on the picture above for a full size image & print on heavy weight paper.

Punch two holes in the top of the box and thread the strings from the head and tail of the beast up through the holes. Tie each string to a button or large bead. This will hang the beast in place, and give you something to hold on to when you pull the strings to make the beast move!

Click on the picture for a full size image & print on heavy weight paper.

Click on the picture for the full size image & print on heavy weight paper.

This adorable bird in a nest was made with a cupcake wrapper, spagnum moss, and Model Magic modeling clay.

Thank you, Mary Woodward of The Concord Museum, for this lovely idea!

Click the image above for directions. click anywhere on the directions to move to the next page of directions.

click the picture to open the pattern, and print.

Construct a little bird out of scrap materials.
Is it balanced?
Why or why not? Can you fix it?

Use a paperclip to hang it from a string.
Slide the bird along this zip line to 'fly' it.

What does your bird see? Where do they go?
Draw or build a map or landscape for your bird to fly over.

Watch my bird fly! Click to watch the video