Yarn Moon Craft For Kids

A great moon craft for kids made with yarn. This super simple yarn moon is fun for kids in preschool, prek and kindergarten to make for a moon theme.

Kids will enjoy gluing on the yarn and making the sky for the moon. Plus, it is a great way to talk about the moon and the color with kids!

This is a great space theme for kids as well.

The Yarn Moon Craft is an excellent addition to the moon crafts and space crafts on the site.

Yarn Moon Craft

The yarn moon craft is made with gray yarn and black yarn to make the moon. We used a black background with glitter and a white paint marker.

This is a fun sensory craft for kids to do. You can do this with preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), kindergarten (ages 5 to 6) or even with older kids.

It is great for any moon theme you might be doing.

Moon Books You Can Read With the Yarn Moon Craft

For our yarn Moon craft, we read The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons. We love her information books.

What We Used to Make the Yarn Moon Craft

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We cut the yarn in small 1 to 1 1/2 inch pieces. This was a great size for the craft. You can do longer pieces if you want. it all depends on the age of the kids the size of the yarn.

How we made the Yarn Moon Craft

You will see all the steps that we did to make the yarn moon craft.

Step 1: Put Glue on the Paper Plate

You are going to start by putting glue on the paper plate. You want to have the round side up for this moon craft. You can start with just a little glue at a time on the plate.

Step 2: Place Yarn on the Glue

Then you are going to start playing the small pieces of the gray yarn on the glue. We start with gray since most of the moon is gray.

Then once the gray is on then add a little black to the moon. You can see how the black stands out.

Step 3: Repeat Step 1 and 2 Until the Plate is Covered

You are going to repeat step 1 and 2 until the paper plate is covered. We did this is stages because we got less glue on our hands. But a younger age might be better to put all the glue on first.

Do what is best for the kids you are doing this craft with.

Step 4: Press the Yarn onto the Glue

As you go you can press the yarn onto the plate. You want to put one hand under the plate and press the top where the hand is. If you do this with younger kids it is okay is the squish the paper plate flat a bit.

You can also tip the plate up and see what yarn falls off as well. we just picked up the yarn and used it on the other parts of the paper plate.

Step 5: Dot the Stars in the Black Background

we put our yarn moon aside and made the background for the moon. We used black glitter paper and a white paint marker to do the stars in the sky. You can make big or small dots with the paint marker.

And you are just going around the outside of the cardstock sine the middle will be filled with the moon.

I have seen star done with paint and flicking the paint on the paper. I don’t like this as much because it get paint all over. But if you want you can do that.

Step 6: Put Glue on the Edge of the Paper Plate

next we grabbed the paper plate and turned it over to the other side. We placed the glue on the edge of the plate. We made sure it was a thick line of glue all the way around.

Step 7: Place the Moon the Black Star Background

Finally you are going to place the moon on the background. They will want to try for the center. But if it is not perfectly in the center that is okay.

Final look at our Yarn Moon Craft

More Moon Activities For Kids

Phases of the Moon Weekly Packs has 6 grade level of packs with prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade. You have fun phases of the moon sequencing and activities.

Sequencing: Phases of the Moon Printable has all 8 phases of the moon that can be done with all 8 or in four parts of the moon phases. You have easy reader books, clip cards, order the moon phases and phases of the moon worksheets.

Tissue Paper Moon Paper Plate Craft is a fun moon craft made with paper plate and tissue paper that will be loads of fun for kids to make for a moon theme or for Moon Day.

Watercolor & Oil Pastel Night Sky is a fun night sky painting activity. You have a full moon and stars on this really fun painting.

Paper Roll Painted Moon Painting is a moon made by stamping paper rolls on paper. A fun activity to do.

Check out all the fun Moon Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.