Good Friday crafts for children to make that use paper plates! One craft uses round paper plates (use cheap plates that can be folded easily) and the other crafts use black and green square plates. (These are available online – take a look here)
Good Friday crafts – round paper plate
The above craft was made with a cheap paper plate folded a third of the way down. The sky is a mixture of blues and blacks (I used wax crayons as they blend well). The hill is some green and yellow crayon. Fold then colour the plate. Cut out the three crosses and then glue them on the blue, fold over the green and glue in place. I used pritt stick. PVA would work fine too.
An alternative to crayons is to use torn up sugar paper and tissue paper.
I really like the added texture of the torn paper plus if you have a large group this works well – it’s likely that you won’t have enough blue and green wax crayons for a large group to share!
Good Friday crafts – square paper plates
To make
- Cut out centre of plate. Use this to make the cross shape.
- Use tacky back to cover the centre (sticky side needs to be same side as black rim)
- Cover tacky back with brightly coloured tissue paper (try to stay within the square of tacky back)
- Glue on the black paper cross
Good Friday craft – Easter Garden
I love Easter Gardens. There are several versions of this paper plate Easter Garden on the blog. No soil is needed (although I love Easter Gardens made with soil, moss, twigs and flowers too!)
All you need…
- Square paper plate (green)
- Flower stickers
- Cup cake cases various sizes (trim to look like petals)
- Brown paper path
- Cross and stone for the tomb cut from card (give both shapes a flap to use to stick to plate)
- A small pot for the tomb (Make sure it will stick)
- A strip of brown paper to cover the tomb and help glue it to the plate
- Green tissue paper to make a hill around the cross
Take a look here for some additional ideas for making an Easter Garden with a paper plate. There is a simplified version of an Easter Garden here.