Placement Activity: Paper Plate Angels

Here is another great seasonal craft to make with kids or elderly residents to decorate the classroom, day center, or home.  The main resource to use is a paper plate!  

Activity/Idea name: 
 Paper Plate Angels

Brief description of the placement where you work (please include ages, number of people, languages spoken, other etc):
I worked at a school in Russia. The children were in 4th grade, so around 10 years old. There were approximately 20 children doing the craft project. The children spoke only Russian, but staff members spoke English and a translator was available.

Goal of the activity:
This is a craft activity to be creative and create a beautiful piece, perhaps for parents or to keep.

Required resources:

• A paper plate with pre-drawn lines for cutting out the wings (you can pre-cut these for younger children)
• Scissors for each child
• Glitter and markers to decorate
• A pipe cleaner to make the halo
• Tape
• Glue

Step-by-step process:
Give each child a paper plate and guide the group, through an example, on where to cut (cut along the black lines, and remove the small wedge shape at the top that is lightly shaded in the picture) :

Once the plates are cut, the kids can decorate their angel with glitter and markers. Once the angel has been decorated, help or instruct the kids to bend the large part of the angel and tape at the back to create the round angel body. The wings should be sticking out flat.

Bend the pipe cleaner so that one end is a circle, and the other is a flat line, and attach to the back of the angel head with tape. The angel should stand on its own. OPTIONAL: You can pre-punch holds at the top of the angel wings and attach a string through these so it can hang.




Do you have any suggestions/improvements for the next time?
Make sure the kids see you cut before they start, and bring additional paper plates. You will likely have kids who cut in the wrong places and need to start over.  Also, make sure you try it out once on your own, so you know how it works!

You can also find different designs online.