Easy Paper Plate Wreath Craft

Here is an easy Christmas craft to set up with your little ones some time this holiday season.  With a few simple materials, your child will make a Paper Plate Wreath Craft.  It's a great way to sneak in fine motor skills practice!

A much loved fine motor activity among preschoolers is the use of scissors.  I try to make scissors and paper readily available for my littles because fine motor skills are so.very.important-- especially in this crazy technology age that we are in.  Many more kids know how to "swipe" more than properly use scissors!

Practice proper scissor use with this simple Christmas themed cutting activity.

Your preschooler will love creating a Christmas wreath in the process.

Paper Plate Wreath Craft

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Paper Plate Wreath Craft Supplies:

• green paper plate
• scissors
• red pom poms/ gems/ stickers
• ribbon

How to Make a Paper Plate Wreath Craft

Prep the activity by cutting a circle out of the center of the green paper plate so that it resembles a wreath.  ** Alternatively, you could use a white paper plate and have your child color it green with markers, paint, do-a dot markers, bleeding tissue paper, etc!

Encourage your child to use the scissors to make small snips around that paper plate.

Make sure they do not cut all the way to the circle!

Trim the Paper Plate Wreath Craft with "berries":

When your child is finished, add red elements for the berries:

•  red sticker gems
• pom poms
• dot stickers
• buttons
• painted finger prints

Tie the red ribbon into a bow and glue it onto the wreath.

Now your preschooler has made an easy and adorable Paper Plate Wreath Craft.  Hand it somewhere around the house to show off this simple kid-made holiday decoration!

It was such a simple way to work on fine motor skills!

More fun crafts to work on scissor skills with little ones:

• Snowman Scissor Skills Craft -- Another great way to practice cutting skills this winter season!

• What is Hiding in the Grass? Cutting Activity -- Save this idea for spring or summer time.  It's a cute activity go-along for the book, In the Tall Tall Grass.

• Paper Plate Lion's Mane Craft -- If you end up buying white paper plates for this craft, save some to make these fun Paper Plate Lion's! 

• Gingerbread Man Preschool Cutting Practice -- A fun extension activity for any Gingerbread themed book! 

     

More Fine Motor Activities:

• Counting Straws Fine Motor Game from Powerful Mothering

• Encourage Cutting Practice with Silly Scissors from Stir the Wonder

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