Materials needed for a soda bottle penguin include: 1-liter plastic soda bottle, white athletic sock, rubber band, wooden spoon, construction paper, laundry soap bottle, glue and scissors. Pull a white sock over the bottle from the bottom. Use a rubber band to secure the sock at the bottle's beck. Use the handle of the wooden spoon to stuff the top of the sock into the bottle. Cut a rectangle from black construction; it should wrap ¾ of the way around the bottle and cover 2/3 of the bottle. Cut the edges so they look like penguin wings. Glue to the top portion of the bottle. Cut out black eyes, a yellow beak, orange feet and a red bowtie from construction paper and glue them into place. Use the laundry detergent bottle as a top hat and you're finished.
If your 6 year old loves race cars make tube race cars. You'll need a toilet paper tube, acrylic paint, scissors, hole puncher, black craft foam, aluminum foil, glue, paper and small paper fasteners. Paint the tube any color you'd like and decorate it with strips or numbers. Once it dries, cut out the cockpit in the middle of the tube. Cut out a quarter-size steering wheel and four wheels from the black craft foam, each wheel about the size of the end of the tube. Using the aluminum foil, cut out four quarter-size hub caps then glue them to the center of each wheel. Finally, fasten the steering wheel and wheels to the tube with the smaller paper fasteners.
To make an egg carton spider, you need a cardboard egg carton, paint, paint brushes, glue, wiggly eyes, hole punch and pipe cleaners. Cut a cup out of the egg carton. Paint the outside of the cup any color you'd like. Position the cup upside down and glue on the eyes. Use the hole punch to make a mouth. Punch three holes on each side of the cup for legs and two holes just above the eyes for antennae. Trim the pipe cleaners into 4-inch sections. Insert one pipe cleaner through a side hole and thread it through the other side to make the legs. Bend the pipe to resemble spider legs. Put the pope cleaner through the hole in the top of the cup to make the antennae.
Teach kids how to make their only piggy banks. Supplies needed include: four thread spools, pink paint, plastic water bottle, glue, pink felt, two matching buttons, pink pipe cleaner and craft knife. Before letting your child begin the craft, cut a slot big enough to accommodate coins on the side of the bottle and poke a small hole in the bottom of the bottle. Have your kid paint the spools pink then glue them to the side of the bottle opposite the coin slot. Cut 3-inch wide triangles out of felt for the ears. The bottle neck and cap act as the pig's snout. Glue the eyes and ears onto the pig's face. Twirl the pipe cleaner into a spiral shape then insert it into the hole in the bottom of the bottle. Kids put coins in through the slot and get them out through the bottle's opening.