Back-to-School: Yellow School Bus Craft
Chances are your little one has or is about to start a new year of school. My daughter, Ava, is making the move from pre-school to kindergarten this year. As most children, she will be attending kindergarten at a new school with new children. She is happy to start this next period in her life, but at the same time she is a little nervous because she will be leaving behind all her friends. A great way to help prepare youngsters for this change is to create fun activities centred around the start of school. My daughter really enjoyed creating this cute yellow school bus and later pretending she was taking a ‘big girl’ school bus. This craft also offers the perfect opportunity to speak about school bus safety!
Materials
Large paper plate
Yellow craft paint
Black colored paper
Black puffy paint
Scissors
Foam paint brush
Hot glue/hot glue gun or a glue stick will work too
Directions
1. First you’ll want to lie down a few pieces of newspaper
2. Then cut your paper plate in half and cut a corner off the top right side to make a bus shape
3. Use your foam paint brush to paint your paper plate with two coats of yellow paint and let dry
4. Now cut out 2 large circles, 3 small squares, and 1 medium sized triangle from your black colored paper
5. Use your hot glue gun to glue your wheels onto the bottom of the plate
6. Then glue your 3 squares in the center of the bus and your triangle towards the top right
7. Use your black puffy paint to write “SCHOOL BUS” right below your 3 small squares
8. Draw on a couple lights on the front of your bus with the black puffy paint and let dry.
Enjoy!
That’s a super cute craft! This is a great thing to do with the little ones to get them excited for the first day of school.
Aww this is so cute. I think kids would have a blast making their own school buses!
What an adorable back to school craft. So cute and easy for the little ones to do. This would be great for a teacher to do her her classroom too.
This is such a cute back to school craft. This will be great for my friends little ones.
Ong what a cute craft!!!! My daughter would
Love to make a school bus!
That is too adorable! That would be a fun craft to do with my kids.