Kaitlyn glued a wavy piece of green construction paper 'grass' on her cardboard. Optional: Decorate the thin cardboard with the habitat of your animal.Cut out a rectangular piece of thin cardboard about 6' x 8'.Older children can cut all the way around the animal.Young children can cut around this outline for some scissors practice (just don't decorate your cardboard too much as the template piece will cover up most of it).There is a dotted rectangular outline around each of the animals. Color the pieces as appropriate and cut them out.Link each child's train car onto the engine to create a long classroom train.

You're doing this as a classroom or daycare project, the teacher can create a simple paper train engine. Option: You can add a construction paper border and some wheels to turn your zoo cage into a train car. (we used white wool and found it easy to work with) thin cardboard (old cereal boxes work very well),.Children just able to read/print can write a few facts about their animal on an index card and slide it behind the strings on the back of the craft. Grade school children can also enjoy the craft cutting all around the animal or drawing their own. Good question! Young children (preschoolers) can make it using the simple dotted line rectangles forĬutting out the animals (good scissors practice). Uses string or wool to create the cage bars.įlorence asked: Nice craft but what age or ages? This is a fun and easy color, cut and paste craft that

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