Add a teaspoon of peppermint or lemon extract to white air-dried clay and several drops to the glue. Have child use a rolling pin to flatten the clay until it is 1/4 inch thick. Cut desired shape out of the clay with a cookie cutter. Press beads and stones into the clay. Glue together two textured-paper rectangles in contrasting colors. Glue the clay shape on top. Glue card stock with a message to the back of the bottom rectangle.
Prepare quick-setting cement according to the instructions. Pour the cement into a foil pan. Have child press his hands into the cement. Press small pebbles around the edges of the cement. Let the cement dry, then remove it from the pan. Using an acrylic paint, paint the surface of the cement white; paint the hand prints and the pebbles in assorted colors. Cover with varnish.
Cut a leaf shape out of plastic canvas. Thread twine through the top of the canvas for hanging. Have child spread peanut butter on the leaf. Press sunflower seeds into the "veins" of the leaf. Sprinkle millet over the leaf and pat into place. Turn the leaf over and repeat the process. Hang the leaf in a tree.
Add glue to both ends of a wooden dowel, 1/2 inch wide and 3 inches long. Drill a 1/2 inch wide hole into a wooden disk, 1 inch thick and 4 inches wide. Have child insert one end of the dowel into the disk; insert the other end of the dowel into the base of a plastic foam cone. Glue peppermint or licorice sticks to the dowel. Glue spice drops and gum balls to the cone. Spray adhesive onto the wooden disk. Sprinkle with fine glass glitter.
Cut animals as well as geometric shapes out of remnants in various fabrics, colors and prints. Iron fusible web to the back of each remnant. Discuss possible uses for each remnant with the child. Have child create a picture by gluing remnants to linen-covered cardboard.
Glue twigs and small branches to a wire form. Secure the wood with fishing line. Have child wrap 2 inch wide ribbon around the wood. Glue poppy pods, whole cloves, star anise, agava pods, cinnamon sticks, and small pine cones to the ribbon.
Give child a pine cone, 3 small pompons, 2 small felt triangles, and a narrow strip of leather. Have child lay the pine cone down so the cone is pointing to him. Insert two small pompons into the top scales of the cone for "eyes," and glue another pompon to the point of the cone for a "nose." Glue felt "ears" to the top of the cone behind the eyes, and glue the leather strip to the rear of the cone for a tail.