Online Safari Crafts for Kids
Searching for wild animals in a African safari ignites children's imaginations. There are many online resources to help with printouts, templates and directions for free safari crafts. Many of these crafts are easy to do with materials you already have in your home craft box. Invite your kids to search with you, conducting a safari over the Internet of safari crafts they want to do.
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Elephant Pencil Holder
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The elephant pencil holder is a safari craft that kids will love displaying on their desk. It's an easy craft to make. All you need are googly eyes, construction paper and an old soup can with glue and colored markers. Glue construction paper around the soup can. Kids will come up with some wacky color combination; don't inhibit them. Let them draw ears and a trunk and glue them on. Once it dries, kids will have a pencil holder to hold all those colored markers.
Clothespin Giraffe
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Giraffe are majestic creatures of the African plains. Children can create an entire family of giraffes with some cardboard and a few clothespins. Paint the spots with along a cardboard oval and the pins with orange paint. The oval serves as the body with the pins attached as the legs and the neck. Create a smaller oval for the snout of the head. Don't forget to draw on eyes. When the giraffe is finished, kids can create cutout trees for the giraffe family to stand among and dine on.
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Giraffe Ears
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Let kids pretend to be the wildlife instead of searching for it. Help them transform themselves with a pair of giraffe ears. You can find the printout template for this craft at FreeKidsCrafts.com. Once you print out the giraffe ears, kids can color the spots in and attach them to pipe cleaners. Help them fit the pipe cleaners around their head and parade around as a tall elegant giraffe.
Birthday Invitations
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If your little one has a party approaching, you can print out invitation templates of wild animals. Kids will take unusual pride in coloring in the stripes of tigers and drawing the face of an elephant to create custom invitations for friends and family. These invitations are a perfect start to a safari-themed birthday party. Invitations are easy to make with construction paper, scissors and markers.
Puppet Elephant
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A movable puppet elephant will intrigue kids and help them understand how such as large creature moves its body so gracefully. Print out template instructions at FreeKidsCrafts.com. Use heavy card stock and fasten the body parts with brads. Make sure kids color the body pieces before assembly to make sure all of the paper is colored and won't have white blotches as your child moves the trunk, legs or tail.
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- Photo Credit Safari image by Catabu from Fotolia.com
