Crafts for Kids: O is for Orange!

by Nov 24, 2019Alphabetical, Crafts, Food, Fruits and Veggies, mnop

Use super simple orange crafts like this one to teach your kids the letter O! O is for orange just like the color orange! It is fun to see your child decorate their orange. Oranges fall under a Fruits and Veggies theme and is very healthy. Don’t forget to play some music about oranges while making this craft!

Skills

Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, dramatic play, social and emotional. Here is how this orange applies these skills:

 

Math

Ask your child to identify the shapes of the orange along with other shapes they may see. Circle for orange, triangle for the slices, and oval for the seeds. Don’t forget the rectangle for the shape of the stem. Not only that, count how many seeds are on their orange.

Science

Ask the student if oranges are a fruit or vegetable. Label the parts of an orange: stem, leaves, core, skin, seeds, and flesh. This is a great way to introduce new vocabulary to young students. Imagine your child labeling and teaching you parts of an orange. Wouldn’t that be amazing?

Fine Motor Skills

With the cut up pieces of orange construction paper, the child will use their hand eye coordination and concentrate on gluing the paper on the letter O, gluing the leaves and the stem on the orange.

They will use the Do-A-Dot Markers to also practice their hand-eye coordination while coloring the circle.

Your child will focus and use a marker to place black dots to represent the seeds.

Using their cutting skills, your child will cut out the orange with your supervision. Challenge your child to cut out the stem and the leaves. If not, do it for them. You don’t want your child to be frustrated and give up!

 

Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional

Your child can pretend to eat the orange and tell you how it tastes; if it is sweet, sour, bitter, delicious, and so on. Just be careful your child does not take a bite of the orange because it will not taste good.

Boundaries

Make sure you supervise your child when using scissors and other sharp items.

Materials

You will need the following items: a small paper plate, orange, brown, and green construction paper, scissors, Do-A-Dot markers, markers, and glue.

Orange tissue paper and a paper plate

Scissors, pencil, glue, markers, and do-a-dot markers

Steps

Depending on the child’s fine motor skills, have the child cut out the inner part of the plate. Make sure your child is not cutting it out all the way!

Draw a leaf on a green construction and have the child cut it out. Again, if the child does not have the cutting skills, you can prompt or do it for the child.

Cut out a thin brown strip of construction paper to make the stem.

Don’t forget to use the black marker to draw an “X” to create a portion of the orange slices.

Have your child use the Do-A-Dot marker for the inner circle. And use the regular black marker to add in the seeds.

Then, have your child glue the orange construction paper on the letter O.

Lastly, let it completely dry and use it as a prop or whatever you choose to do with it. And you are done!

Modifications

Instead of using orange construction paper, you can use orange tissue papers. This may allow your child to strengthen their fine motor skills by crumbling the tissue papers. Don’t forget you can always use crayons or paint to decorate the orange.

Instead of drawing in the seed, try using black tissue papers and/or small pom pom to represent the seeds.

You can also have the child paint the apple with a paintbrush, their fingers, or sponges to create different effects.

This will give the child an opportunity to explore sensory skills.

Delicious Orange!

We love oranges, orange juice, orange chicken, and a whole lot more! Use orange crafts to get your kids to take a big bite into something healthy that is full of Vitamin C.

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