Kids already know what night and day are, but what makes them so, and how can make crafts with it? Use this craft to teach your kids about the importance of the sun and how our days and nights depend on it. This is also a good chance to teach them about how the moon is easy to see at night, but it still likes to hang around during the day, too! Don’t forget to sing some songs about night and day while making this craft!
Skills
Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, dramatic play, social and emotional. Here is how this craft applies these skills:
Math
Add in math concepts by having your child identify the colors and shapes they are using to decorate their art. Have your child count how many stars they have altogether.
Science
Talk about the earth’s rotation and how there are 24 hours in one day. And that is how day and night are created.
Fine Motor Skills
Your child will learn how to use their pincer grasp to glue the sun and moon on the paper. They will hold a crayon to draw and decorate their art craft.
Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional
Children can use this art project and talk about how they feel in the day time or at night time.
Boundaries
Make sure you supervise your child when using scissors and other sharp items.
Materials
You will use yellow, black, and blue construction paper, glitter, crayons, markers, scissors, and glue.
Black and blue construction paper, moon and sun templates
Glitter, markers, pencil, crayons, glue, and scissors
Steps
Firstly, find circle and moon-shaped templates that you wish to use with your craft.
With your child, glue blue construction paper over half of the black construction paper. The blue half will represent day, and the black half will represent night.
Next, trace and cut out the sun and moon using the templates and yellow construction paper.
Once complete, glue the sun onto the blue construction, and glue the moon onto the black construction paper.
Then have the child decorate the sun and moon to give them whatever characteristics the child enjoys.
Optionally, have the child draw draw some lines around the sun to represent sunshine.
Finish off the craft by having your child decorate the night and day halves of the paper with items that belong there. For example, stars belong on the night half of the craft, where birds and clouds can go on the day half of the craft.
Modifications
You can use paint, pre-cut stars, cotton for the clouds and anything you prefer to make this activity enjoyable and interesting for your little ones.
Be creative and make it fun!
Sunny Day & Sleepy Night
Night and Day crafts for kids are a great way to teach your kids about the earth’s rotation and that there are 24 hours in one day. That is how and why we have day and night. Good night!
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