Spring Lamb Art Projects
Celebrate spring with your students by making spring lamb art projects. These projects can entertain kids from preschool through elementary school. You can also do spring lamb projects as a Bible craft. Before beginning the project, explain to your students that lambs are baby sheep and are born in the early spring months.
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Hand-Print Spring Lamb
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Easy-to-make hand-print spring lambs require white and green construction paper, black markers, cotton balls, scissors and glue. Have the children place their hands on white construction paper. Have them trace the outline of their hands with the black marker. Very young children may need an adult to do the tracing for them. Cut the hand out and glue it to a green piece of paper so the thumb is the head and the fingers are the legs. Glue the cotton balls onto the lamb's body. Draw little hooves on the lamb's feet with the black marker and give it a face. Allow the kids to draw trees or flowers in the background to show it's springtime.
Clothespin Spring Lamb
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For clothespin spring lambs, you'll need empty, clean plastic containers, such as those used in delis or plastic cups, cotton balls, glue, small spring-action clothespins, white paint, paintbrushes, black markers, black pom-poms, black felt, scissors and wiggle eyes. Glue cotton balls all over the outside of the container. Paint the clothespins white; use the black marker to draw hooves onto the bottom of the clothespins, where you squeeze them. Clip the clothespins on the underside of the container to form the legs. Glue the black pom-pom onto the container for the head. Cut two ears from the black felt. Glue the ears and wiggle eyes onto the lamb's head. Glue a cotton ball to the back of the lamb for a tail.
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Paper-Plate Lamb
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Paper-plate lamb supplies include paper plates, glue, cotton balls, pink pom-poms, pink pipe cleaners, wiggle eyes, black construction paper and scissors. Cut the black construction paper into a circle the same size as the paper plate and glue it to the paper plate. Glue the cotton balls around the edges of the paper plate. Attach the pink pom-pom to the center of the plate to make the lamb's nose. Trim the pipe cleaner to three inches, fold it in half and bend each end up to make the mouth. Glue this piece under the nose. Add the wiggle eyes. Cut two ovals from the black construction paper and glue them onto the side of the plate to form the lamb's ears.
Barnyard Lamb
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Create barnyard lambs using Styrofoam eggs, tacky glue, white yarn, scissors, white felt, black ball-headed straight pins and fine-tipped black markers. Press the rounded end of the egg against a hard surface to flatten it. Hold the flattened end and spread glue on the opposite half. Press the yarn onto the glue at the tip of the egg and wrap it around the egg until you reach the midpoint, then cut the yarn. Add glue to the other half of the egg. Start the yarn at the bottom of the flattened end and spiral it upwards toward the middle until the egg is completely covered. Cut the lamb's head and ears from the felt. Draw the nose and mouth onto the felt head with the fine-tipped marker. Glue the head and ears onto the flat part of the egg. Use the ball pins for eyes.
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