Zoo Animal Art Projects
When teaching your students in class or your children at home about zoo animals, let them create fascinating, hands-on crafts and art projects that will pique their interest in learning about animals. From caged zoo animals to a painted zebra project, use your imagination and a few supplies from your local craft store to get started.
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Caged Zoo Animals
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Cut several zoo animal shapes out of construction paper and give a few animals to each child. The child can glue the animals to a large piece of white paper. Help the child cut out black bars to glue them over the animals. This makes the zoo animals look like they are in a cage. Have children write the name of each zoo animal under its picture.
Collage of Zoo Animals
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Provide your children with leather, cotton balls, construction paper, artificial grass, wiggly eyes, buttons, yarn, zebra fabric, pipe cleaners, leopard fabric and some solid-colored fabric. Give young children pre-designed templates of zoo animals, and tell them to use the supplies provided and their imaginations to create a collage of zoo animals. Older children can draw their own pictures of the animals, as well as decorate them.
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Play Dough Zoo Animals
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Create zoo animals, such as lions, tigers, snakes, elephants, monkeys, giraffes and flamingos, using Play Dough. Give younger children pictures of the animals to use as guidance. Children can use zoo animal cookie cutters, toothpicks, wiggly eyes and plastic knifes to design the dough. Older children and teens may opt to use polymer clay, which they can bake in an oven to hold its shape and color.
Zebra Projects
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Print several pre-designed templates of a zebra with no stripes. Your children can create the stripes using black construction paper. If the children are too young for scissors, cut several strips of black paper for them to glue onto their zebra to create stripes. Older children can cut the stripes themselves. Another idea to create the zebra stripes is to use a pencil, washer and black tempera paint. Put the washer on the pencil and roll the edge in black paint. Use the pencil to roll the washer all over the zebra to create stripes. Other methods of creating stripes on the zebra are using a black marble covered in black paint to roll over the zebra, or the edge of a thin sponge dipped in black paint.
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References
- Photo Credit zoo image by Mat Hayward from Fotolia.com
