Purim Crafts

Purim crafts have to include at least one clown, because how can you celebrate the Purim holiday without clowns? Clowns are the ones who bring with them the gayety and happiness that are a trademark of this holiday.

The stranger, funnier and more amusing the clowns are, the better and more successful the holiday will be...

So, let's get to work...

Let us contribute to the holiday spirit too, by creating clowns for Purim.

A Paper Clown

Materials:

• Brown paper
• Colored construction paper
• Moving eyes
• Glue
• Double sided sticky tape
• A stapler
• Newspapers

Fold the brown paper in to two.	Cut eyes, a nose and a mouth out of the construction paper and stick on to the brown paper. Stick the moving eyes on and draw eye lashes and eye brows.
Open the folded paper and stick the double sided sticky tape along the open sides.	Peel the paper off from the double sided sticky tape on two sides only and stick on.
Fill the clown with newspapers through the remaining opening. Peel the paper off from the double sided sticky tape, and close the opening.	Cut four strips of white construction paper.
Fold the strips in to an accordion.	Staple two strips on the side of the clown, and two strips on the bottom to form arms and legs.

A Rubber Foam Clown

Materials:

• Wire
• Rubber foam
• A polystyrene ball
• Moving eyes
• Markers
• Glue
• Four beads
• A wire cutter

Thread the wire through the polystyrene ball. Fold the wire at the end in the shape of a hook, and then pull so that it will get lodged in the ball.	Cut out squares of rubber foam in the desired colors.
Thread about six squares of rubber foam. Cut an additional piece of wire and wrap around the existing wire to form arms.	Continue to thread rubber foam squares to make hands and a body.
Wrap an additional piece of wire around to form legs and continue to thread rubber foam squares.	Once you have finished threading the squares, cut the excess wire off, leaving a piece of wire three centimeters long.
Thread beads on the arms and legs, fold the remaining wire and embed in to the rubber foam in order to ensure that the clown does not come apart.	Stick moving eyes on to the polystyrene ball. Draw a nose and a mouth and stick on wool or rubber foam to create hair.

Do you have ideas of your own for Purim Crafts? Send them to me! I'll be happy to add them to the growing collections of kid activities listed here on this site!