Five Spring Craft Ideas for Students with Cortical Visual Impairment
Crafts are such a beneficial activity in elementary classrooms, especially special education classrooms. There are so many important skills that can be targeted when completing crafts including fine motor skills, color identification, choice-making, shape identification, requesting (scissors, glue, paper, etc), and so much more! Depending on students’ needs, crafts can be adapted to promote success. In this blog post, I share FIVE spring craft ideas for students with cortical visual impairment or other visual impairments.
Before sharing the crafts, I want to share the materials you will need for your students to complete these spring crafts. I tried to use similar materials in the hopes of limiting what you would need to purchase or find for these spring craft ideas.
You will need the following materials:
- textured paper (metallic paper, glitter foam paper, and felt)
- string
- multi-colored beads
- cotton balls
- black pom poms
- black cardstock
- googly eyes (optional)
Spring Craft Idea Number 1: Kite
For this craft:
- Print out a simple kite template from Google on white paper.
- Cut out the template and glue it onto black cardstock. This contrast will allow students to see where they need to place the metallic paper.
- Students will then cut the metallic paper into pieces (or they could be pre-cut).
- Then, students will glue the metallic pieces onto the kite template.
- Last, a piece of string can be glued onto the bottom of the kite shape.
Spring Craft Number 2: Egg
For this craft:
- Print out a simple egg template from Google on white paper.
- Cut out the template and place it on black cardstock. Do not glue the egg template onto the paper!
- Students will then cut the textured paper into strips, or they can be precut for students.
- Students will then glue the strips across the egg template.
- Then, students will trim around the egg.
Craft Idea Number 3: Rainbow
For this craft:
- Print out a simple cloud template from Google on white paper.
- Cut out the template and glue it on the light blue felt/cardstock.
- Students will then select pieces of precut beads and glue them onto the felt/cardstock to create their rainbow.
- Last, students will glue cotton balls onto the cloud template.
Spring Craft Number 4: Bee
For this craft:
- Print a large circle on yellow paper, or print a circle on white paper and trace it onto yellow paper.
- Cut out the circle, and glue the yellow circle onto black cardstock.
- Place strips of black paper across the yellow circle and trim the edges. These black lines will serve as a template for the students.
- Students will then glue black pom poms over the black lines.
- Next, students will glue the googly eyes near the top. If you don’t have googly eyes, students can use small white circles and color a black circle in the center to make the eyes.
- Last, students will use two small strips of black paper to make the antennae.
Spring Craft Number 5: Caterpillar
For this craft:
- Print out 4 medium-sized circles on white paper.
- Students will cut out the circles and glue them onto black cardstock to form the caterpillar.
- Next, students can cut pieces of textured paper (or they can be precut for them).
- Students will then glue the textured paper onto the parts of the caterpillar.
- Then, students will glue on two black pom poms to make the eyes.
- Last, students will glue two small pieces of black paper onto the “head” to make the antennae.
**The circles can be printed on yellow paper or 4 different paper colors to act as a template for students to decorate.
If you make any of these crafts with your students or your children at home, please tag me on IG @specialachievers. I would love to see how they turn out!
Interested in other CVI-friendly craft ideas? Check out these other posts!
4 Engaging CVI-friendly Spring Activities
Five Winter Craft Ideas for Students with CVI
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