Top 4 Beaver Crafts For Preschoolers And Kids
Teach kids about beavers with these amazing and fun beaver crafts.
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Children love arts and crafts, and it’s a fun way to help improve their motor skills and expand their imagination and creativity. To help you teach your child about small animals like beavers, beaver crafts for preschoolers and kids could be a great idea. If your kid is bored or wants to learn some exciting new artwork, you could teach them these crafts in simple steps. Here are some cool ideas that can help your child make interesting beaver crafts and the materials you will need to make these. Read on to know more.
Top Four Beaver Crafts:
Here are four beaver crafts for kids of all ages that will surely make happy:
1. Identify The Shapes:
You Will Need:
- Chart papers in brown, white, and black colors
- Scissors
- Glue
How To:
1. Help your kid cut out different sizes of circles and squares from the chart papers. It will help your toddler develop his motor skills.
2. Ask your kid to identify the shapes. Let him separate the squares and circles.
3. Instruct your kid to glue the black circle over the white circle to make the eyes. Next, ask your kid to stick the white circles over the big brown circle that will form the face.
4. Ask your kid to stick the white squares to make the teeth of the beaver.
5. Similarly, instruct your kid to stick a black circle to make the nose and two circles to make the
ears.
2. Toilet Paper Roll Beaver:
You Will Need:
- Empty toilet paper roll
- Chart paper in brown, black, and white colors
- Glue
- Scissors
How To:
1. Help your kid in covering the toilet paper roll using the brown chart paper, to form the beaver’s body.
2. Ask your child to make a beaver face as he did in the first activity.
3. Help your kid stick the beaver face on top of the toilet paper roll.
4. Tell your kid to cut out a tail using the chart paper and stick it to the body.
5. Your kid can also make tiny feet with the chart paper and stick them on the toilet roll too.]
3. Beaver Wreath:
You Will Need:
- Cardboard
- Chart papers in red, black, brown, and white colors
- Scissors
- Glue
How To:
1. Use the cardboard to cut out a small plate and a large plate. Stick the two together to make a wreath.
2. Help your kid in cutting a small strip of cardboard and then sticking it on the back of the ring.
3. Ask your kid to cut out strips from the chart paper and glue them into rolls to look like a paper chain.
4. Now, your kid has to glue the rolls on the wreath.
5. Help your kid in making a beaver’s face as mentioned in the first activity.
6. The last step is to glue the beaver’s face onto the wreath. It will look as if the beaver is peeping out from the top of the wreath.
4. Heart Beaver:
You Will Need:
- Chart paper in brown, white, and black colors
- Glue
- Scissors
- Straw
- Tape
How To:
1. Help your kid in making a heart-shaped beaver face. He can cut out a heart shape to make the face. Tell him to cut and stick the eyes, nose, ears, and teeth on it.
2. Help him fold a chart paper to make a card. Let him glue the beaver’s face on top of the card and write a message inside. Help him cut the card in the shape of the beaver’s face.
3. Stick a straw in the center of the card with the help of a tape to make a cute puppet shape.
Beaver crafts for preschoolers and kids are a great way to stimulate their interest and curiosity to learn a new artwork. Besides the big wild animals, such as lions, elephants, and giraffes, children should be acquainted with small animals such as the beaver. Instruct your children to cut out different shapes and arrange them to form a beaver’s face. Use objects, such as toilet rolls, as a base for making beaver crafts. Help your child follow the steps and create some fun items this summer. However, ensure your children use sharp objects only under adult supervision.
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