Safari crafts can introduce a unit on habitats.
Turn your room into a wilderness stocked with lions, elephants, ostriches and giraffes. As children work on each craft, talk about how each animal’s body parts help it adapt to its habitat. Help them to research additional information about each animal including its diet, size and life cycle. Display written reports above completed crafts or have children use the crafts as visual aids during a class presentation.
Paper Plate Animals
Turn your bulletin board into a must-see safari destination with paper plate animals from FreeKidsCrafts.com. Attach two small paper plates to a large paper plate to create the animal’s head and ears. Paint the plates gray for an elephant or yellow for a lion. Add wiggly eyes, buttons, felt or craft foam to make a face. Make an elephant’s trunk from a cardboard tube or a lion’s mane from brown yarn. Display the finished crafts on a safari-themed bulletin board.
Paper Cup Animals
Create three-dimensional animals that can stand alone. Kids Craft Weekly recommends painting the outside of a paper cup and an empty toilet paper tube. Trim the cup to about one inch from the base, leaving the bottom of the paper cup for the face. Cut circles into the sides of the cup that can be pushed forward for ears or cut slits that can be folded up for a lion’s mane. Add pipe cleaner legs, a yarn tail and a face. Wrap yarn around the animal’s body for fur and attach the head to the body. Station the animals around the room for a pretend safari adventure.
Brown Bag Birds
Make an ostrich with this craft idea from MSSS Crafts. Tear a brown paper bag into small pieces and glue to half of a paper plate for feathers. Add wiggly eyes and a construction paper beak to a large brown or gray pom-pom to make the bird’s head. Use brown or gray pipe cleaners for legs and a neck. Hang the birds from the ceiling or include them in a bulletin-board display.
Clothespin Giraffes
BusyBeeKidsCrafts.com offers a simple giraffe project made from clothespins and thick paper. Cut an oval and a 1-inch-wide strip of paper. Cover three clothespins and both sides of each paper with dots of orange paint. Tape the small strip of paper into a circle for a head. Clip the oval between two clothespins to create the giraffe’s body and legs. Attach the remaining clothespin to the oval for a neck and slide the paper circle into place. Stand the giraffes on a chalkboard ledge or window sill to display them.
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