Letter Q Crafts and Activities

Q-tip painting
Items needed:
* Paper
* Qtips
* washable paints
* Styrofoam egg container or other small cups

Painting is always fun but painting with Qtips makes it extra special. You can use your qtips to draw letters and numbers or to paint in the pictures in your coloring books! Pull the cotton off the end for a completely different “pen” with your paint.

Make a Quill Pen
Items needed
* Ballpoint pen
* Long feather
* Masking or scotch tape

Talk about how a long time ago people used feathers and ink to write with. If you want use some washable paint and dip the feather end into it or just tape the feather to the end of a pen or pencil and write like they did. Kids love it! Do several pens of different color in with different color feathers. This is a great and simple activity to encourage early writers.

Family Quilting
Items needed
* Paper
* markers, crayons or other decorations
* scotch tape or hole punch and string/yarn

Have each member of the family decorate a 4″x4″ square of paper anyway they’d like but all squares must include the family member’s name and date they decorated the square. Tape the squares together like a quilt and then tape the whole quilt onto a larger piece of colored paper or cardstock. Alternately, punch holes on each side of the squares and “sew” the squares together with yarn or string and then tape to a background piece. Make smaller quilts like this to use in the family scrapbook. A family quilt is a nice way to involve far away family members in a project too, just have them mail you their square.