construction paperany color will do but we picked rainbow colors, you need at least one yellow for the sun
paper plate
yellow craft paint
Instructions
Start off by painting your paper plate yellow. No need to dirty up a paint palette or waste an extra plate for the paint. Just pour a little on the plate you will be using and start painting.
While the paint is drying, cut out strips of construction paper for how many days you have left in school.
Staple the strips together in a chain. We used rainbow colors and alternated them to look like a rainbow but you could choose all solid color. Whatever your child (or children) want to go with.
Now that the paper plate should be dry, use your sharpie marker and write out summer break, summer countdown, or just summer. However, you want to label your sun.
Using your yellow piece of construction paper cut out strips for the sun rays. You can either glue these on the back of the plate or do like we did and staple them on. We touched our staples up with a little yellow paint too.
Staple on your summer break countdown chain.
The last part is stapling on an extra strip to hang it with.