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1. Draw a curved line that separates the plate in half.

2. Paint one side of the plate yellow and the other side grey. Let dry completely.

3. Use the glue stick to adhere the stars to the plate.

4. Paint the Glow in the Dark Mod Podge over the stars. Be sure to use a clean brush for this.

5. Let the Mod Podge dry completely.

6. If desired, punch a hole in the top of the plate. Thread twine or ribbon through the hole for hanging.

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1. You can use white glue like Elmers to glue your popsicle stick stars but it takes hours to dry! I find a glue gun works best by far. It gives the strongest bond so I know my kids homemade ornaments can be used and enjoyed year after year and it’s fast so the kids can get straight on with yarn wrapping. The only downside to using a glue gun is that it sets super quick so you’ve got to know exactly what angle the craft sticks need to lie to make a closed star. You don’t get time to adjust them or any second chances! Eek! Don’t worry though I’ve got a simple method that makes it fool proof!

2. I simply make a template on paper that I then use to position my popsicle sticks correctly as I glue them. The easiest way to do this is to make your five pointed star on a sheet of paper using no glue. Because there’s no glue you can fiddle and adjust your craft sticks until you are totally happy with your star shape. When you’ve got the star shape you want use a pen to mark a dot at the end of each star point.

3. Now you’ve got your dot template you can use it to glue your popsicle stick stars with the glue gun and know that they are all going to be in the right position and close up at the end.

4. Line each stick up between the correct dots and glue them into place one at a time. Continue gluing around the star.

5. Now you’ve got your wooden star frame children can decorate them with yarn wrapping. Yarn wrapping is a fantastic way to build fine motor and hand eye co-ordination skills as children thread, wrap and turn their stars and yarn.

6. Children can then wrap as much or as little yarn as they like around their stars. If they want to change colours you can either tie the first colour off onto a stick and then add a second colour or tie the second colour straight onto the end of the first colour.

7. When the yarn wrapped star ornaments are finished make loop from the yarn for hanging it up on display.

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To prepare, print out a large number to use as a template. Trace it onto black construction paper or card stock. Cut out a number for each student. From a sponge, cut out a moon shape. Print, and cut out the words for Twinkle, Twinkle that accompany this lesson.

In class, help the children glue the Twinkle, Twinkle words to their number fours so that they can sing this song with their parents at home. Help them dip the moon-shaped sponge in glitter glue, and stamp it onto their number four. Provide star stickers for them to decorate their number fours.

Directions:

1- Let the kids draw a ladder on their paper and write the a number 1-7 in each section.

2- When all kids have their gameboard made, they put their game piece on the number 1

3- When you say go, everyone gets to roll the dice over and over until they get the number 1 on their dice. For the littles, have each child take a turn rolling the dice and everyone gets to move when some rolls a 1 rather than racing or giving each child a dice... they may not know how to count :-)!

4-When a 1 is rolled, they can move their game piece to the number 2 and attempt to roll the number two on their dice. They can not move to the number 3 until they roll a 2.

5- Keep going until lastly someone is on the number 6 and then rolls a 6 in order to get to the "rest day" number 7.

6-When they get to 7 they get to pretend to sleep until everyone else finishes the game.