Letter C Craft: Cat
Letter C Craft – Styrofoam Cup Cat
What you’ll need to make the C is for cat craft for each child:
1 styrofoam cup
1 sheet of white paper
1 sheet of pink paper
Scissors
Glue stick
2 googly eyes
1 pink marker
1 black pipe cleaner
C is for Cat Styrofoam Cup Craft Directions
- Cut out two triangles from white paper to make the cat’s ears. Cut out two smaller pink triangles to go inside the white triangles. Glue the two triangles together.
- Cut a black pipe cleaner in half. Twist one half into a tail shape. Cut the other half in half again. Twist these pipe cleaners together to make whiskers.
- Glue the googly eyes to the front of the cup upside down. Draw a cat’s nose and mouth under the eyes with the marker.
- Glue the whiskers above the nose.
Glue the black tail to the back of the cat.
Glue the ears to the top of the styrofoam cup to complete the cat.
- Let the cat dry before allowing the kids to take them home.
- If they like, kids can also color the white cup with markers to give their cats more personality.
Show the kids pictures of patterns commonly seen on cats and let them pick which pattern they would like to add to their cups
Madreen Karle is a master first grade reading teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience. She taught reading in a special needs and English as a Second Language classroom. After retiring she wrote a reading program to help others learn how to teach reading. She is a trusted educator and author of 5 books to help teach children to read and write. In addition to her books, she is a mentor for 3 websites that give reading teacher tips (Mrs. Karle's Sight and Sound Reading, Mrs. Karle's Reading Patch, and Mrs. Karle's Handwriting Patch). Through her teaching she learned that confidence was the key to learning to read. A child who is not confident at reading does not like to read and struggles to read. Mrs. Karle created "sunshine moments" to help teach children how to grow their confidence and learn to read.
Meeghan Karle Mousaw (Madreen’s daughter) has her Master’s in Special Education. She has 7 years experience teaching children to read online. In addition, she developed a curriculum to teach children handwriting called The Handwriting Patch. With the Handwriting Patch learning is fun because children learn to draw and learn handwriting at the same time. In 2019 The Handwriting Patch curriculum became an amazon best seller the first year it was released, helping thousands of kids learn handwriting with a unique, fun method. She is mom to 6 kids, each with differently learning abilities and struggles.
The Reading Patch was established by the creators of Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading. Together they have been featured on the NBC media outlets. Over the last 7 years in their online platform, Madreen and Meeghan have worked tirelessly with teachers, homeschoolers and parents looking to help children learn to read to become a trusted authority in teaching children to read and advocating early literacy skills. They often partner with other educational experts to deliver the most current information to the Reading Patch community.
Meeghan Karle Mousaw (Madreen’s daughter) has her Master’s in Special Education. She has 7 years experience teaching children to read online. In addition, she developed a curriculum to teach children handwriting called The Handwriting Patch. With the Handwriting Patch learning is fun because children learn to draw and learn handwriting at the same time. In 2019 The Handwriting Patch curriculum became an amazon best seller the first year it was released, helping thousands of kids learn handwriting with a unique, fun method. She is mom to 6 kids, each with differently learning abilities and struggles.
The Reading Patch was established by the creators of Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading. Together they have been featured on the NBC media outlets. Over the last 7 years in their online platform, Madreen and Meeghan have worked tirelessly with teachers, homeschoolers and parents looking to help children learn to read to become a trusted authority in teaching children to read and advocating early literacy skills. They often partner with other educational experts to deliver the most current information to the Reading Patch community.