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3 Pete the Cat crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue.
Four buttons, then three, then two, then one, and nobody cries. The counting is what makes a Pete the Cat craft stick. Here are three options with pictures, supplies, and steps: two use the groovy buttons shirt and a Pete mask.
A three-year-old glues big circles on a yellow shirt. A five-year-old counts them down, draws Pete's face above the collar, and wears the mask for the rest of the afternoon. Many classes read Pete in the first weeks of school, so these land in September.
Start here: three Pete the Cat crafts that always work
3 Pete the Cat crafts, with pictures
1. Groovy buttons shirt
The child glues four big buttons or paper circles onto a yellow paper shirt and counts them down as in the story.
You need: yellow paper, black marker, 4 large buttons, glue
How to make it
- You cut a short-sleeved shirt shape from yellow paper.
- Your child draws one line down the middle of the shirt with the black marker.
- Glue the 4 buttons in a column down that line.
2. Pete the Cat mask
The child colours or paints a paper plate or template blue and adds ears, yellow eyes and whiskers to wear.
You need: 1 white paper plate, blue poster paint, blue paper, yellow paper, black paper, 1 craft stick, black marker, glue
How to make it
- Your child paints the plate blue. Let it dry.
- You cut 2 round eye holes in the middle of the plate.
- Cut 2 blue triangles and glue them at the top edge as ears. Cut 2 yellow rings and glue one around each eye hole.
- Glue a small black triangle below the eyes as a nose. Draw 3 whiskers on each side with the marker.
- Glue the craft stick behind the bottom edge as a handle.
3. Pete's groovy buttons shirt
The child colours a paper shirt yellow, glues four big buttons down the front and draws Pete the Cat's face above it.
You need: light blue paper, white paper, yellow crayon, 4 large round buttons, blue paper, yellow paper, black marker, glue
How to make it
- You cut a white T-shirt and a blue cat head from paper. Your child colours the shirt yellow.
- Glue the shirt in the middle of the blue sheet and the 4 buttons in a line down the front.
- Glue the head above the shirt. Cut 2 yellow ovals, glue them on as eyes and add a dot to each with the marker.
- Draw a nose and straight whiskers.
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Counting buttons and wearing the mask
Cut the yellow shirt shape and four paper circles ahead of time, or use real big buttons. Then the child does all the gluing. If you draw a line down the front of the shirt, the buttons go on straighter.
Count down as the buttons go on, and again as you point to them afterward. Four, three, two, one. That is the whole math lesson, and it is the part a three year old will repeat all week.
The Pete the Cat mask needs blue paint to dry before the ears and eyes go on, so paint in the morning. Hold the mask on a craft stick instead of elastic, which is easier for a small face and does not pull hair.
The shirts go on the fridge. The mask goes to school for a Pete the Cat day, or stays home for the next reading.
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