Celebrate harvest time with this easy to make bubble wrap corn craft. This fall activity is a great introduction to printmaking as your kids get to explore making prints with bubble wrap. It’s also a great way to use up any bubble wrap you might have instead of tossing it into the trash can.
If you don’t have bubble wrap, there are alternative ways you can make this corn craft, and we’ll talk about this more in our step by step tutorial.
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Corn crafts are great as fall crafts, Thanksgiving crafts, or as an addition to a harvest study unit in your classroom. It’s a hassle-free art project that all students will be able to complete on their own.
How to Make the Bubble Wrap Corn Craft
What you need:
- pencil
- scissors
- glue
- bubble wrap
- yellow paint (acrylic is great)
- paintbrush
- white cardstock
- color paper (green)
Step by Step Tutorial
Prepare a sheet of white cardstock or art paper. You can use regular print paper although it might wrinkle a lot.
Tip: prepare rectangle sized sheets of paper beforehand and supply kids with bubble wrap that’s about the same size. This way you avoid wasting paper and bubble wrap.
Have the kids paint the bubble wrap with yellow paint (on the side where the bubbles are).
You can use watercolors or any other liquid colors to cover the bubble wrap – we used acrylic paint.
Have kids turn the bubble wrap face-down and place it onto the white cardstock to make a print.
Press down the bubble wrap, then have them slowly remove the bubble wrap and let it dry for a few minutes.
If you don’t have bubble wrap, you can have the kids use Q-tips to make dots for the kernels or use their fingers to make them.
Have kids cut out a corn shape.
Take a green color paper and fold it in half.
Draw a leaf-like shape and cut it out to get two leaves of the same size.
Glue the leaves on the corn.
All done!
These can be strung together to make a cool classroom decoration or pinned on the harvest-themed bulletin board.
Happy crafting!
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