The Top Five Brown Paper Bag Ideas For Kids

Family/ Parenting - Kids

By: smacklanburg     24-Sep-2011

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Puppets

Kids love puppets and creating puppet shows. You can use lunch-size paper bags to create a cast of puppet friends. Use a variety of colors and decorate faces to make beavers, birds, cats, dogs, elephants and more. The bottom of the bag serves as the top of the puppet's head, where your child's hand goes in to manipulate the puppet.
After you create your cast, recycle large paper bags to create a backdrop for the show. Cut out the bottom of the bag and cut up one of the sides to create one long sheet. Have your children draw and color a scene in the center and wrap the sides around as curtains. Your children can create multiple scenes with different bags and replace them with a new curtain opening for a full afternoon of imaginative play.

Dress Up

Using a recycled grocery store bag, cut out a neck and armholes with an opening going down the entire front. Have your child decorate the bag as a character costume. It could be colored with a camouflage pattern for a special ops mission, for example, or decorated with streamers to become a flowing princess dress

Kites

Take a recycled paper bag, some duct tape, disposable chopsticks and some string. See if your child can design a kite that not only looks good but also flies high in the sky. Make a few and then head to the park to see which design flies best. Kids could also make large paper airplanes that soar through the air

Stuff It

Fill the bottom half or two-thirds of a brown paper bag with crumbled newspaper. Gather the top opening of the bag, and pinch it together. Tie the bag closed with a ribbon, string or twist tie. You can then turn your paper bag into a variety of items. Paint the bottom red or orange and make apples or pumpkins for autumn. Twist the tops into long sticks and bend them over so it looks like a stem. Attach a leaf or two. Otherwise, flip the bag over and put a dowel through the small hole left at the opening. To make a puppet, glue yarn to the top for hair, glue buttons for eyes and nose and draw a mouth.

Decorate It

Decorate the outside of the bag to make a variety of items. During the holidays or before a birthday party, let children place the gifts they are giving inside a bag. Close the top, and fold it over. Secure the bag closed with tape. Attach stickers, pom-poms, sequins or yarn to create a scene on the front of the bag. Make a cake or balloons for a birthday. Turn the front into a Santa Claus, reindeer or snowman for the holidays, using notions, crayons and markers.





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