April 2026 Grab & Go Kits

Cupcake Liner Caterpillar

Each kit includes:

• A piece of construction paper
• 4 cupcake liners
• 2 black pipe cleaners
• 1 set of eye stickers

You will need:

• Scissors
• Liquid glue
• Markers (optional)

Instructions:

1. Flatten each of your cupcake liners.
   
2. Glue each liner down. It’s best to put a circle around the underside, to make sure they stay down all around.
    
3. Have a grownup help cut your pipe cleaners in half twice, so you will have 8 equal sized pieces.
    
4. Glue 2 pipe cleaners to the top of the first cupcake liner; you can curve these ones at the top to make antenna. Then glue 6 of the pipe cleaners to the underside of the back 3 cupcake lines; these you can make into an L shape to make legs. Note: this is kind of tricky, so if you’d rather use a marker to draw on the antenna and feet, feel free!
   
5. Stick your sticker eyes onto the first cupcake liner. Say hello to your new caterpillar!

Paper Snail

Each kit includes:

• Strips of construction paper
• 1 circle piece
• 1 snail body piece
• 2 sticker eyes

You will need:

• A pencil
• Glue/Tape (liquid glue works best, but a glue stick works too!)
• Optional: A skewer or a chopstick

Steps:

1. Glue or tape the circle piece to the snail body, overlapping the two pieces a little bit
   
2. Take a strip of paper and wrap it around your pencil
   
3. Roll the pencil, so the paper wraps fully around
   
4. Carefully pull the paper off the pencil – it will look like a swirl!
   
5. Repeat steps 2 – 4  with the rest of your paper strips. To make tighter swirls use a skinnier object like a skewer or a chopstick. For the example, we made some looser and some tighter swirls
6. Glue or tape your swirls upright onto your circle (so you can see the swirl patterns) – it helps to start at the middle and work outwards
   Note: We gave you a couple of extra strips just in case, so they might not all fit!
7. Place your sticker eyes onto the snail body. Feel free to decorate your snail body more, if you would like!
   
8. If you are using glue (even a glue stick) it is best to leave your snail flat on a table for at least 1 day so the glue can fully dry.

Pipe Cleaner Daisies

Supplies Included:

• 4 green pipe cleaners
• 2 yellow pipe cleaners
• 12 miscellaneous pastel pipe cleaners

You will need:

• Scissors or nail clippers
• Glue stick or marker (to wrap pipe cleaner around)
• Hot glue (optional)

Instructions:

1. Cut each yellow pipe cleaner in half so you have 4 yellow pipe cleaner pieces
   
2. Pull out 2 matching pastel pipe cleaners
   
3. Take one of them and wrap it around your glue stick or marker, leaving a tiny bit out at the start. (It should wrap around 4 times, leaving a little at the end)
   
4. Twist the ends together to secure your loops before sliding it off the glue stick or marker
   
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with the second pipe cleaner
   
6. Pull out a third pipe cleaner that matches the color of your loops and feed it through both of your loops
   
7. Twist pipe cleaner to secure the loops together
   
8. Cut off the extra (leaving a little bit out) and then spread the loops out evenly
   
9. Flatten loops and turn them 90 degrees to form the petals
   
10. Grab a piece of yellow and start to create a spiral
    
11. Spiral until there is about an inch left and place it in the center (if you have hot glue you can cut the excess and glue the center on)
    
12. Grab a green pipe cleaner and loop the end around the glue stick or marker twice, twist to secure.
    
13. Slide the green off the glue stick or marker and flatten the loops to create 2 leaves.
    
14. Attach flower to the stem by wrapping the extra bit of the yellow center (or use hot glue if available)
    
15. Repeat steps 2-14 to make 3 more flowers
    

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