Fairy Tales, The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg Craft

Here's a simple craft to teach the Aesop's fable, "The Goose that laid the Golden Egg". In the story, a woman has a goose that lays one gold egg a day, but she is greedy and wants all the gold at once. She kills the goose and cuts it open, but finds nothing. The story is a little cruel, but this craft is innocent and cute.

Materials:

• 1 sheet of blue construction paper
• simple goose template cut from card stock
• egg cut from card stock
• scissors
• glue
• craft feathers
• crayons
• "The Goose that laid the Golden Egg" title

Directions:

1. Have the goose and egg cut out beforehand, or let student's do it.
2. Color a face on the goose and color the egg gold or yellow.
3. Glue the goose and egg to the blue paper.
4. Glue craft feathers onto the egg.
5. Print out the title and glue to the top or have students write it themselves. Display your golden geese.

Thanksgiving Turkey Preschool Craft

Here’s a classic paper plate Thanksgiving turkey craft that’s cute and easy to make with your preschoolers. Pre-cut the pieces out beforehand.

Materials:

• A paper plate cut in half
• Brown, yellow, red, white, and black craft paper
• Various colored tissue paper cut into 1 inch squares.
• Glue
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Cut a medium sized circle from brown paper, a small diamond shape for the beak and feet from yellow paper, a waddle from red, and white and black circles for eyes.
2. Spread glue over the paper plate half and cover with colorful tissue paper squares for the tail feathers.
3. Glue the brown circle on the front hanging down the bottom for the head.
4. Glue on the eyes, waddle, and beak(or use google eyes or eye stickers).
5. Glue the feet on the back at the bottom.
6. Allow to dry.

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