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Graduation Ideas
(preschool, kindergarten, etc.)

Welcome to DLTK's Crafts for Kids' Graduation Ideas hub – your one-stop shop for celebrating and honoring your preschoolers, kindergarteners, and young students' achievements as they take their first step into the world of learning. Here, we provide a variety of fun, engaging, and educational graduaction craft activities tailored specifically for graduation festivities. Whether you're a parent, teacher, or young learner, we invite you to explore and enjoy the myriad of resources we offer.

Graduation Cards and Cards for Teachers

Graduation Coloring Page

Graduation Crafts

Graduation Poem/Certificate
For teachers to give to students.

Graduation Printables

Graduation Song

Graduation Worksheets

Hosting a Memorable Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Five handmade picture frame ideas that preschoolers or kindergarteners can create to celebrate their graduation:

1. Popsicle Stick Frame: A classic crafting staple, popsicle sticks, can be transformed into a delightful picture frame. Kids can decorate their frame with colorful paints or markers, and adorn it with stickers, sequins, or glitter. Then, glue a picture to the back, add a magnetic strip, and voila – a beautiful keepsake for the fridge!

2. Pasta Frame: With different shapes and sizes available, colored pasta offers an array of creative possibilities. Kids can glue pieces of raw pasta onto a cardboard frame and then paint it in their favorite colors. It’s a fun and unusual way to create a standout frame.

3. Puzzle Piece Frame: Recycle those old, missing-pieces puzzles into a unique picture frame. Kids can paint the puzzle pieces in vibrant colors, then glue them around a piece of cardstock to create an enchanting and textured frame. It’s a fun and eco-friendly project that also helps develop fine motor skills.

4. Clay Frame: Children can roll out non-toxic modeling clay and cut it with a plastic knife into a frame shape. They can then use their creativity to imprint designs using small objects or sculpt tiny decorations onto the frame using plastic tools. After drying, the clay frame can be painted for an additional splash of color.

5. Button Frame: Buttons offer endless opportunities for creativity! Kids can glue colorful buttons of different sizes around a cardboard cutout to create a cheerful, tactile frame. It’s a fun and engaging way for kids to practice their sorting and patterning skills while making a precious memento.

These craft ideas encourage creativity and fine motor skill development, while also providing a memorable keepsake to commemorate the special milestone of graduation.

DIY Preschool Graduation Cap Craft:

As your little ones step forward from preschool, let's celebrate their achievement with a fun and creative crafting project. Here's how to create a delightful graduation cap that they can proudly wear on their special day.

Start with a paper or plastic bowl as the base for our graduation cap. Flip it upside down and color it using paint that matches the school's official color. Let it dry thoroughly. Alternatively, you can staple a strip of poster board in a circle to fit the child's head.
Take a square piece of cardstock in the same color. Apply some glue to it and stick it onto the bottom of the inverted bowl, which is now the top of our cap.
Carefully create a tiny hole in the center of the cardstock and the bowl using a pair of scissors. Adult supervision is crucial in this step to ensure safety.
Choose a yarn in a coordinating color. Wrap it several times around your three fingers, leaving approximately a foot of yarn loose at one end.
Gently slide it off your fingers and cinch together at the end where you have the extra length of yarn.
Use another piece of yarn to tightly tie the pinched end together.
Snip open the loops at the other end using scissors to create a tassel-like structure.
Thread the longer end of the yarn through the hole created in the top of the cap.
Use a piece of tape on the inside of the cap to secure the yarn, ensuring the tassel stays in place.
To keep the cap secure on the child's head, consider attaching an elastic string to the inner sides of the bowl, ensuring a snug fit. This way, the little graduates can move freely without worrying about their adorable DIY graduation caps falling off.

Five handmade picture frame ideas that preschoolers or kindergarteners can create to celebrate their graduation:

DIY Preschool Graduation Cap Craft:

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