We put a fun reuse/recycle twist on the standard Purim crown craft with this Paper Bag Purim Crown! It’s a great way to recycle used paper bags, has lots of creative opportunities in decorating, and, as always, has many opportunities for fine motor skill practice.
What You’ll Need
- Recycled paper bag (like from a grocery store)
- Scissors
- Watercolor paint
- Stickers
- Jewels
- Glue sticks
- Tape
Putting It Together
- Cut one seam of the bag and cut off the bottom so you have a long rectangle of paper bag paper.
- Cut zig zags horizontally across the paper, about 6 inches from the bottom.
- Measure around your child’s head and cut off the excess, leaving about half an inch to tape the sides of the crown together.
- Invite your child to decorate the crown however they wish. Watercolor paints, stickers, jewels (stick on or glue on), pom poms or whatever other fun decorative items all work!
- Once finished decorating and dry, fit the crown around your child’s head and tape it together.
- Pair with a fun book about Queen Esther or Vashti (check out our favorites below!) and enjoy some Purim royal style!
Finished & Loving It!
Decorating a crown is a pretty standard Purim craft. I like adding this recycled element as a fun twist on a familiar craft. Using recycled paper bags is a wonderful way to reuse what we already have in the house and practice ba’al tashchit (do not be wasteful). The paper from the paper bags is also a really wonderful surface to work with! It’s large and has so many opportunities for designing and decorating!
We love using water colors so used this method as the foundation to our crowns. With the darker paper bag, the kids realized they had to use less water when filling their brush with paint. This is a great way to practice practical life science and cause and effect! I loved observing their experimentation and discovering what methods worked best for the result they wanted.
Because we used water colors, we did this craft in two steps. But water color paint tends to dry relatively quickly so this is a nice before and after lunch craft! Once the crowns dried, the kids added whatever decorations they wanted. Lots of stickers and jewels found their way onto the crowns!
Using gluesticks to glue jewels or peel the backs off stickers are always awesome opportunities to practice fine motor skills. I actually absolutely love watching tiny fingers manage to peel the backs of stickers! Such a feeling of accomplishment, so great!
This was such an easy craft and one that I could see easily replicated in the classroom–so long as you have a stash of used paper bags, this is a great way to repurpose them! The process is fun and so is the result–a wonderful way to create the spirit of Purim and maybe even add a new dress up accessory to the mix for fun, the parade or the carnival! Happy Paper Bag Purim Crown making!
Chag Purim Sameach!
We have a whole page dedicated to Purim, our Purim Hub. Check it out! It includes some of the Purim activities we plan to do this year, as well as the activities we’ve done in previous years.
And don’t forget our Purim Montessori-Style 3 Part Cards, a wonderful way to introduce Purim! And, now we also have all 13 Jewish holidays bundled together in A Year of Jewish Holidays 3 Part Cards.
If you want to have a ton of Purim early learner activities ready at your fingertips, try our Purim Activities Packet for Early Learners! I am so excited about all the Purim-themed literacy, fine motor skills, math, and play fun!
The following sites are amazing resources for learning more about this holiday:
Chag Sameach!
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