Craft ideas

Crafts can be a fun way of reviewing language points with younger learners. Crafts build soft skills and use kinaesthetic learning something often neglected. Below I will list three ideas and a lesson plan.

Superhero (Can and Can't) - Students need - scissors, glue, crayons, cut out body features, background templates, and a superhero template -

• Give students the materials, get them to colour the superhero and the background.
• Next Get them to cut out the features and the superhero. 
• After this get them to glue the features to the superhero.
• Finally get them to stick it to the background. 
• As a follow up get them to write 5 things their superhero can do and 1 thing they can't.

Make a cup and ball game (Verbs e.g cut, stick) - Students need - scissors, tape, paper, string -

• Get students to add a design to their piece of paper.
• They should then colour it in.
• Get them to cut the bottom corners landscape.
• Get them to roll the paper into a cone and sellotape.
• Next get a small piece of paper and scrunch it up.
• Sellotape this to a piece of string and the cone.

Origami (infinitives, any nouns) - Students need - paper -

• Provide a list of instructions in the infinitive.
• Students decipher the instructions.
• They follow the instructions and make.
• You can make this a race for extra fun.

Sundial (time) - Students need - paper plates, crayons, paper, scissors, glue

• Get students to write clock numbers on a paper plate and colour and draw.
• Fold the paper diagonally, and cut anything that sticks out.
• Glue it to the paper plate with the tallest part facing 12.