But the best part of this week was getting to make our fun paper plate pirates.

Supplies needed:

Tutorial:

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Paint your plate

Paint your paper plate with the skin tone color paint.

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Cut your circle

Cut that circle in half.

Then, fold your half circle up at the bottom about 3/4, and cut that strip off.

You should be left with this.

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Trace circle on black paper

Trace a circle onto your black construction paper and cut it out.

My camera lens was the perfect size so I used that (so handy, I know).

We are making a pirate patch so you’re free to choose how much you want cut off.

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This forms the pirates bandanna.

Add eye & eye patch

Glue on the wiggly eye and the black eye patch.

This completes the eye patch.

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Then use the bottom circle of the plate as a guide to draw a mouth with the black marker.

Make holes on both sides

Punch holes in each side of the paper plate.

At this point my son had fun pretending he was a pirate and saying Argh!…..

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My son drew a cool eyebrow and cute little nose on his.

I really loved his finishing touches.

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