Animals
ELEPHANT HEAD FINGER PUPPET:
Materials: Grey paper (or use a grey crayon to colour white paper as we had to since we didn’t have any grey paper), construction paper (or use an empty cereal or cracker box), white glue, markers or crayons, a pencil, child safe scissors, a nickel and two different sizes of cups, a glue stick.
Step 1: Trace around the larger of your two cups to draw a circle on the grey paper.
Step 2: Trace around the smaller of the two cups twice to draw two smaller circles on the grey paper.
Step 3: Glue the grey paper to construction paper (or empty cereal box paper) to make it sturdier. Let it dry.
Step 4: Cut out the three circles.
Step 5: Trace around a nickel about an inch from the bottom of the larger circle.
Step 6: (Parental Help for smaller children) Cut out the small nickel circle. This will be where your finger goes as the elephant’s trunk.
Step 7: Glue the smaller circles using a glue stick to the larger circle as the elephants ears.
Step 8: Draw two eyes for the elephant on the larger circle. Optional - Glue googly craft eyes to the puppet!
Step 9: Your finger is the elephant’s trunk in this puppet! Stick your pointer finger through the nickel traced hole. Have fun playing!
Materials:Corks, Styrofoam, pom poms, pipe-cleaners, googly eyes, craft or Popsicle sticks, white glue, markers, scrap pieces of paper or material, cotton, paint (and brushes, water, waxed paper, newspaper for covering the table and art smocks or old clothes to wear), damp cloth for sticky fingers.
Directions: Prepare your craft area with assorted materials and work together to create the animal of your child’s choice by using the materials.
ANIMAL COLLAGE:
Materials: Coloured paper, old magazines to cut, child safe scissors, glue stick, damp cloth for sticky fingers.
Step 1: Together with your child (or you can prep this craft before hand and do some searching and cutting on your own), search through old magazines for pictures of animals.
Step 2: Cut out the pictures of animals and put them in a pile.
Step 3: Let your child glue the pictures on the coloured paper in any way.
Step 4: Display or glue in your Family Theme Day Scrapbook.
RECYCLED CRAFT ANIMALS:
NOTE: This activity is basically letting your child’s imagination soar as the materials can be used in anyway.
My eldest made a Komodo Dragon out of Styrofoam, corks, craft sticks and paint. My youngest made a giraffe out of corks (we stuck them together using toothpicks) and paint, a turtle out of Styrofoam and paint, and he made a rabbit out of a craft stick. Together we made a squirrel using a cork.
PRESCHOOL CRAFT IDEAS
Crafts
ANIMAL STICKER COLLAGE:
Materials: Coloured paper, stickers with various animals on them, markers and crayons (optional).
Step 1: Give your child the stickers and paper and have him/her either make a scene or a collage with them.
Step 2 (Optional): See if your child wants to embellish the picture with markers or crayons by drawing a setting for the animals.
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There are so many animals which means there are so many crafts for this Theme Day. Here are a few ideas but check out all the Animal Based Theme Days listed Under Any Occasion for more ideas
Craft stores often have many animal craft kits.� Search your local craft store for foam crafts, animal stamps, wooden animals etc..
Photos: C. Wright