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Martin Luther King Craftivity | MLK

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Special Days

This Martin Luther King, Jr. craftivity will help even the youngest school children join in while celebrating his birthday.

Martin Luther King Activity

Teachers have been asking me for an activity for MLK Day for years, but I find it so hard to teach history to preschool children. I struggled for so long to create an activity that hasn’t already been done.

This craftivity can be done after reading a book about Martin Luther King, Jr. or after having a class discussion with the kids about friendship, kindness, and acceptance.

While this is a craft, kids will still be able to use their own creativity in their drawings, and each child’s picture will show their individuality.

I even wrote a little rhyme about MLK Day to go with this activity, which you’ll find on the printable. (You are welcome to use this rhyme in your classroom or home, but you may not republish it anywhere. I have no delusions about having any rhyme writing talent, but it’s still my work. 🙂 )

Prepare the MLK Activity

You will need to print and make copies of the printable (download below).

You will need some construction paper or card stock paper in a variety of skin tones (at least 3 hues). Cut the skin tone paper into circles. You will need 3 circles per child. (You may wish to cut extra circles and let children choose the skin tones they want to use.)

Skin Tone Paper for Martin Luther King activity

Provide crayons or markers and glue for the children to use.

What to Do

Have children use crayons or markers to draw faces on their 3 skin-tone paper circles.

MLK Day Craftivity

If you have dark colored paper, you might want to use oil pastels because these show up well on dark paper. Kids can then glue the three faces onto the printable MLK poem page.

Martin Luther King Preschool Craft

Download the MLK Day Activity

MLK Day Printable

Note: This printable is FREE. Just click to download!

Graphics by Kari Bolt.

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  1. Diana Taylor says

    January 5, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    You are so generous to share all your wonderful and exciting ideas and activities! Thank you : )

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      January 5, 2016 at 8:32 pm

      Thanks, Diana! Glad you like it!

      Reply
  2. Kelli says

    January 5, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    Thank you for the great project on Dr. Martin Luther King.
    I can’t wait for the kids to make it.Have a great day.?

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      January 5, 2016 at 8:32 pm

      Thanks so much, Kelli!

      Reply
  3. Valerie Matthews says

    January 5, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    Love the idea on MLK! Thank you for all you do for us!!

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      January 5, 2016 at 8:33 pm

      You are so welcome! Thank you for visiting my site, Valerie!

      Reply
  4. Dede says

    January 5, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    U are awesome! I love your news letters and projects! Keep up the great work!?

    Reply
  5. Marilyn Holihan says

    January 5, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    Thank you for sharing this great activity for MLK. I’m sure the children will have fun doing it. Thank you for sharing all your great ideas !

    Reply
  6. Cathy says

    January 5, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    I’ve been following your Printables for 1 months, which are mostly used at home for my 5-year-old boy. To my suprise , he loves these so much. Thanks for being so generous~ with such amzing resources.

    Reply
  7. vuyisile says

    January 6, 2016 at 3:52 am

    Thank you for sharing your activity!

    Reply
  8. Pleasantte says

    January 6, 2016 at 8:47 am

    Karen,
    Thanks for the creative lessons. I will share this with my staff to use for a homework activity or incorporate with their lesson plan.

    Pleasantte

    Reply
  9. Sandra Duarte says

    January 6, 2016 at 8:55 am

    Thank you for sharing all these great ideas.

    Reply
  10. Judy says

    January 6, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    I love your creativity! Thanks so much for the MLK activity I will use and share it. You are the BEST!

    Reply
  11. Julie Moore says

    January 6, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    Thanks for sharing! Love it!

    Reply
  12. Wilda says

    January 6, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Gracias me encantan tus actividades!!!

    Reply
  13. Ofelia Patino says

    January 6, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Thank you these activity are great

    Reply
  14. Myrna Silvestry Padilla says

    January 7, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    I Love Pre- Kinders, love all the activities and ideas you share with the teachers.

    Reply
  15. Lilly says

    January 8, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    Thank you soooo much for sharing…your ideas are great and I really like how you show your love of teaching. 🙂

    Reply
  16. Sabrina says

    January 9, 2016 at 4:01 pm

    You’re AWESOME! Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  17. Luz Yepes De La Pava says

    January 10, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    Thank you Karen for sharing your ideas. I love them!
    Is a good opportunity to wish you a happy, healthy and successful new year

    Reply
  18. Chris Henry says

    January 13, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Thank you for sharing! Their is definitely no need to recreate the wheel when I can visit your website. Wonderful, Creative, and Engaging activities. My students will enjoy this!

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      January 13, 2016 at 8:47 pm

      Thank you so much, Chris!

      Reply
  19. Marilyn says

    January 14, 2016 at 4:53 am

    Thank you for your very simple creative ideas. I always have great fun doing the activities with my special needs learners.

    Reply
  20. Holmdel Preschool says

    April 5, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    This project looks adorable! So sorry to have missed it for this year’s celebration of MLK day, but I will be sure to add it to my repertoire for next year 🙂

    Reply
  21. Debbie Riles says

    January 27, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    Thank you so much for this MLK Activity and all of the other activities I use on your sight. I can’t wait for the children to do this activity t’s going to be wonderful. I’m new at teaching Pre K, just completed my 2nd year, but it is wonderful to get ideas from experience teachers that has some years experience under their belt.

    Reply

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