Paper Bag Craft for Kids

[katepoet]

Here's one you can do at a party or just for fun. Print out the poem in whatever colors the kids will like and with large enough type so it fits on the side of a paper bag. You can use brown bags or get white - whatever's fun. Give the kids glue and markers, macaroni or bits of colored string and yarn to use to decorate the bags. Let them go to it! Make sugar cookies with the kids to put in the bags as well as healthy treats or sandwiches if you are doing lunch with them. Well - you all know what I mean.

My Paper Bag

In my paper bag I have─
a cookie of sugar and dreams
that sparkles and gleams,
with crystals so bright
and a taste of delight.

On my paper bag I have─
a drawing of a cloud,
a dog barking so loud,
a rainbow from a shower,
a blooming spring flower.

With my paper bag─
I can carry my lunch,
green grapes in a bunch,
a ball of knotted string,
just about anything!

by Kit Greenleaf ? 2006