24 Easy Paper Plate Crafts For Kids

These paper plate crafts are perfect for the little ones in your classroom. There is enough paper plate projects and activities in this roundup to complete a whole year of lesson plans. These projects are also fun to make at home for kinder kids and homeschool kids art projects. All of these kids crafts use paper plates. Paper plates are a great craft item to have on hand as within minutes you can have a craft activity ready to go. We have included our own paper plate tutorials below for a Lamb and a tree, perfect additions to your classroom craft activities ideas.

No need for anything fancy, complicated, or expensive for your kids to get creative and show off their creativity and of course their imagination. There are so many fun kids crafts you can create with a bit of paint and some cutting.

21 PAPER PLATE CRAFTS FOR KIDS

1. Paper Plate Easter Bunny

2. Cruz Ramirez Paper Plate Craft

3. Paper Plate Cupcake Liner Fish

4. Paper Plate Frog Craft – Check out these books about Frogs

5. Paper Plate Fish Craft

6. Paper Plate Ladybug

7. Paper Plate Love Birds

8. Paper Plate LadyBug

9. Paper Plate Rocking Sheep

10. Paper Plate Cogsworth Craft

11. Paper Plate Heart Sewing Craft

12. Paper Plate Mayflower Ship

13. Paper Plate Puffer Fish

14. Paper Plate Owl Craft Pair this activity with these Books about Owls

15. Paper Plate Peacock Craft Books about Peacocks

16. Paper Plate Lion Craft

17. Paper Plate Insect Sewing Craft

18. Flamingo Paper Plate Craft

19. Paper plate Jellyfish

20. Paper Plate Arctic Fox

21. Paper Plate Star Twirler

Paper Plate Lamb Craft is a perfect activity to pair with these books

Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep: Baaad Hair Day

Go To Sheep

Lambslide

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg

Instructions

Paper plate

Cotton balls

Quick dry tacky glue or school glue

Spring Lamb Template File (below)

Print the Spring Lamb Template file of your choosing.

If printing with cutting machine, upload the correct file to your software. Resize the images to fit 6 ½ inches wide and 11 inches long. Select to print and cut. Be aware that the SVG and EPS files are in black and white. If you choose to print in color, you will need to set those colors within your software manually.

Allow children to create the Spring Lamb by gluing cotton balls to the paper plate. Then, add the paper layers to create the ears and face.

This kids craft tutorial shows you how to make a tree using a paper plate, perfect for lesson plants and book activities.

Paper plate

Green crepe paper

Brown construction paper

Quick dry tacky glue or school glue

Pair this kid craft activity with some children’s books about trees

Cut brown construction paper into a tree trunk and attach it on the back of the paper plate with glue.

On the front of the paper plate, use glue to attach long ribbons of crepe paper.

All to dry completely before playing or displaying.

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It might seem weird to feature a book about protest movements around the Fourth of July, but as Rise Up! Powerful Protests in American History reminds us, protest is patriotic and part of the very fabric of American life from the beginning.

This picture book, written by history teacher Rachel C. Katz and illustrated by Sophie Bass, tells a rhyming story of how Americans have stood up throughout the nation’s history to protest and spread the word about injustice and unsafe conditions. From the Boston Tea Party to modern movements like the Standing Rock pipeline protests and the Obergefell case, it touches on women’s rights, environmental activism, civil rights, Pride, access for disabled people and more.

The illustrations, often based on historic protest signs and artwork, help tell the stories, while a timeline, map, and overview of each event for further discussion. Readers will learn about Silent Spring and The Jungle, the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, the Seneca Falls convention, Robert Smalls, the Delano Grape Strike and the movement to un-dam the Klamath River, to name a few.

Each event includes a few bullet points to provide context about what happened, why and what the result was. The book reminds readers that protests are not always effective, or don’t always get the people involved what they want right away (since it took women 72 years to get the right to vote after Seneca Falls, for example).

This book is a great way to introduce kids to the long and proud history of protest movements in the United States and could prompt discussions about current events and things happening that they might want to see changed. It could also be used to start kids researching different protests discussed in the book for further learning. You can talk about how art can educate people and encourage kids to make their own art pieces to educate others about something important to them.

Rise Up! is a great starting point for learning about the history of protest and the effects it has had on American history. The publisher’s website has more resources for teaching with this book at the link below.

About the book: 48 pages, hardcover. Published 2025 by Barefoot Books. Suggested retail price $17.99.

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