Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft
Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft is a great way to start talking about concepts like racism, equality, the civil rights movement, and having dreams.
This Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft is a great way to start talking about concepts embodied by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. And a fun way to talk about how colors of the skin are just that colors. And that all people should have equality.
You have several colors the represent skin colors in this heart wreath. And it is easy to make and introduce ideas to kids.
The Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft is a great addition to the Black history activities and the wreath crafts on the site.
What is a Wreath Craft
A wreath is a collection of items around a circle. It can be used as a seasonal decoration around a house.
Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft
The Black History Month Heart Wreath is a collection of different colors of skin color paper made into hearts. You place the hearts around a paper plate to make the wreath.
Books to Read with the Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft
Shades of People by Shelley Rotner is a great book that shorts just how ma y different colors you will see. Plus, you will see people in different settings. She also has a board book version called All Kinds of People
All People Are Beautiful is a great book about diversity and acceptance in a colorful way. Each page is full the different types of colors, hair, sizes, and more. You will love to see all the different people and how beautiful they are.
Brown: The Many Shades of Love is another great book that looks that the different shades you can find skin color. And has great watercolor pictures.
What we used to make the Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft
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You can see below the sizes of the hearts that the heart punches make. You could use any size of heart punch you have And you could just use one heart size.
How we made the Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft
You can see the steps below that we used to make the Black History Month Heart wreath craft.
Step 1: Punch Out the Hearts
You are going to start with punching out the hearts to go around the wreath. You can punch out both sizes of hearts. We used all the different colors from the shades of me construction paper.
Let kids do the punching of the hearts. It is great for depress for the punching. And makes them part of the process.
Doing the heart punches before for really young kids. You can turn the punch upside down and punch. This allows you to see the paper better and get punches closer together.
Here is a look at the hearts that we punched out. You can see the different colors and size of the hearts. You could use either size of hearts or any heart punch you have as well.
Step 2: Put Glue on the Wreath
Next you are going to put glue on the paper plate. You can do this one heart at a time. This saves on glue and helps kids place the hearts easier.
Step 3: Place the Heart on the Wreath
Next you will place the heart on the paper plate. Super simple and easy for kids. You will want to start with the bigger hearts first.
Step 4: Repeat Step 2 & 3
You are going to repeat step two and three with gluing and placing the hearts. You will want to do the bigger hearts first and then work toward the smaller hearts.
It makes it easier to use the small hearts as an accent for the larger hearts. And it adds a lot to the wreath as you make it.
It is fun to see all the different colors come together to make a fun wreath for Black History Month.
Final look at our Black History Month Heart Wreath Craft
More Black History Month Heart Activities for Kids
Black History People Easy Reader Book has several figures from Black history with a simple easy reder book with them.
Black History Weekly Packs has five days of printables with 4 pages for each day. This is a no-prep pack that works great for kids. Plus you have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade & Fourth Grade packs!
Hand Wreath Craft For Kids has several colors of hands around a wreath a great way to work on unity with kids.
Free Black History Month Pack has 6 figures from black history in the pack with 30 pages of printables. You can learn about them. The pack has activities from patterns, which is different, prewriting, tracing words and more. This is a great for ages 4 to 7.
Handprint Watercolor Painting has different sizes of hands and showing the different colors of skin.
Check out all the fun Black History Month Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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