Let animals serve as inspiration to make your own cute "critter crafts."
"Critter" is another word for "animal" or "creature," and there are lots of ways to celebrate the wild animal kingdom with some easy kids' crafts. "Critters" can be made out of just about any type of materials, so you may be able to recycle some items you have on hand already.
Panda Scrubber
Turn a white bath scrubber into an adorable panda by using hot glue to attach black foam pieces to the scrubber. Cut craft foam into ears, large black eyes and a small panda nose. Attach "googly eyes" to the black eye pieces to finish your panda. Bath scrubbers are very cheap, so this is an inexpensive craft you can do with a group of kids. Other animals can be created this way, so use your imagination and see what you can come up with.
Crayon Animals
Turn a regular crayon into a funny critter with some pipe cleaners, fuzzy pompoms and construction paper or felt. The pipe cleaners can be shaped around the crayon to look like arms, legs or antennae. With glue and pompoms or construction paper, embellish the critter further by adding wings, eyes or feathers with some craft glue.
Clay Critters
A tub of modeling clay or play dough is all you need to create critters. Sculpt the clay into animal bodies, arms, heads and legs to make just about any type of critter you want. A big, black clay ball attached to a smaller ball can make a spider with eight clay legs, or a white clay body with a large orange bill can make a duck. Embellish the clay if you like with "googly eyes" pressed into it. Some clay projects can be baked so you can keep them, so check the instructions on your clay and see if that is possible.
Pasta Plate Lion
Make a lion craft using some simple supplies. Color a paper plate yellow with either markers, crayons or paints and allow it to dry. Use craft glue to make a mane for the lion out of rotini pasta by gluing the pasta around the edge of the plate to form a circle. Create a face with markers, "googly eyes" and any other items you'd like to use. See what other animals you can come up with using pasta and craft materials.
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