How to Make Stand Up Animals
Looking for a fun and easy craft to share with your kids? A craft that isn't limited to "one-and-done," but can be completed over and over again? Stand up animals may be just the thing. Watch as your kids create a whole zoo full! Here's how it's done.
Instructions
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How to Make Stand Up Animals
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Flip through some magazines with your kids, looking for pictures or photos of animals. For our purposes, animals with four legs--horses, cows, elephants, giraffes, zebras, dogs, cats, lions, tigers, and the like--work best.
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Each time you come across an animal picture or photo of decent size, cut it out with scissors and put it aside. Continue searching until you have a nice little collection of animals. This is a good chance to talk with your kids about different animals--where they come from, what they eat, and what sounds they make, for example.
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Trace the outlines of the animals on a piece of cardboard, then cut the outlines out of the cardboard. Use glue to paste the photos onto their corresponding cardboard cutouts.
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For four-legged animals, attach two clothespins to the animals' bodies, where their legs would naturally attach.
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Stand your animals up on their new wooden "legs," one by one, until all of your animals are standing together.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't use too much glue! Magazine paper tends to be extremely thin, meaning the glue will bleed right through unless applied in very small amounts.
- Photo Credit Photo by Paige Foster.
