Wooden Peg Craft
A few months ago, my daughter’s teacher asked if myself and another mom could help with a craft in her class one Friday morning. They were learning about various tiny people. She found some wooden pegs from Amazon, and she wanted the students to create their own tiny person along with an item from their story. I decided to google each character and make a “sample” to give the kids a starting point if they needed it. Quite a few had their own ideas and totally made them unique to their personality.
The characters that they learned about were Tom Thumb, Thumbelina, and Issun Boshi. I googled each character since I was not familiar myself. Then I recreated them the best I could using wooden pegs. You can see comparisons below. I used yarn, markers, felt, and hot glue.
Her teacher also wanted to have each child make an item to go with their person. Here are some of the things I made to give them ideas. I made a lily pad out of paint and a paper plate.
I made a flower out of paint, coffee filters, hot glue, and pipe cleaners.
I made a “rice bowl” out of cardstock and hot glue.
And I made a leaf out of paint and a coffee filter.
