Welcome to Danielle's Place! We believe learning should be fun. This site is dedicated to teaching children
through crafts and activities. You will find hundreds of inexpensive crafts and activities for children. Most of
the crafts and activities on this site are Bible-based and are great to use in Sunday School, Vacation Bible School,
preschool, and home school. You will find complete Sunday school lessons and lessons for Christian homes schools.

African Animal Crafts for Kids

 

Folded Paper Animals - Free Craft!
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

giraffe craftFolded Paper Giraffe Craft for Kids

What you will need: Card stock (Heavy paper), scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

What to do:

1. Print out the pattern (Large file or small file).

2. Color the giraffe and then cut it out.
Fold the giraffe in half from the tail end to head. With the giraffe still folded in half fold down the neck at both slanted lines both backward and forwards as shown in the picture.

4. Unfold the giraffe and fold up the neck as shown in the picture.

5. Press down on the middle fold and up on the slanted fold to fold up the neck as show in the picture.

6. Crease the knobbed horns along the sides so they stick out. Glue on the ears. Glue the top of the head together just above the eyes. Glue on the tail and spread out the legs so the giraffe stands up.

 

Felted Giraffe

Felted Giraffe

This cute little giraffe was made from wool roving (unspun wool) using a needle felting technique. Wool is wound into ball and tube shapes and then poked repeatedly with a felting needle to condense the wool and sculpt it into the desired shape.

You can find directions for this craft and more on the Yarn and Wool Craft Page.

paper lion craftFolded Paper Lion Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: Card stock (Heavy paper), scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

What to do:

1. You must be a member of Danielle's Place and The Resource Room to access the patterns for this craft. Click here for the pattern.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.

Felted Lion Finger Puppet

This lion finger puppet was made from wool roving (unspun wool) using wet felting and needle felting techniques. Wool is wound into ball and tube shapes and then poked repeatedly with a felting needle to condense the wool and sculpt it into the desired shape.

You can find directions for this craft and more on the Yarn and Wool Craft Page.

Felted lion puppet

Rhinocerous CraftFolded Paper Rhinoceros Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: Card stock (Heavy paper), scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

What to do:

1. You must be a member of Danielle's Place and The Resource Room to access the patterns for this craft. Click here for the pattern.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.

Folded Paper Zebra Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

giraffe craftWhat you will need: Card stock (Heavy paper), scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

What to do:

1. You must be a member of Danielle's Place and The Resource Room to access the patterns for this craft. Click here for the pattern.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.

Folded Paper African Elephant Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

elephant craftWhat you will need: Card stock (Heavy paper), scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

What to do:

1. You must be a member of Danielle's Place and The Resource Room to access the patterns for this craft. Click here for the pattern.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.


giraffe craft for kidsFoam Marshmallow Giraffe Craft
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: Foam marshmallows from Oriental Trading Company (You can buy 48 for $4.95, $3.95 if you buy 3 or more packages.) (Type in 57/2058 in the search box on the left-hand side of the page.), wooden dowels for the legs, neck, and tail, glue, yellow fun foam, magic markers, and paint.

What to do:

1. Glue two marshmallows together for the body.

2. Cut dowels to make five pieces that are 2 1/2" for the legs and tail, cut one dowel 3 1/2" for the neck and two pieces that are one inch for the horns. Use a pointy stick or large needle to poke holes in the marshmallows for the legs, tail, neck and horns. Insert the dowels.

3. Cut ear shapes from yellow fun foam and glue them to the head as shown.

4. Paint the giraffe's body yellow and the inside of the ears red or pink. Use a brown marker to color in the spots and draw on the face.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.


lion craft for kidsFoam Marshmallow Lion Craft
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: Foam marshmallows from Oriental Trading Company (You can buy 48 for $4.95, $3.95 if you buy 3 or more packages.) (Type in 57/2058 in the search box on the left-hand side of the page.), wooden dowels for the legs, and tail, glue, magic markers, 1" orange pompoms, orange yarn, and paint.

What to do:

1. Glue two marshmallows together to form the body. Glue one marshmallow on for the head as shown in the diagram.

2. Cut dowels to make five pieces that are 2 1/2" for the legs and tail. Use a pointy stick or large needle to poke holes in the marshmallows for the legs and tail. Insert the dowels in the holes.

3. Paint the lion figure. Glue orange pompoms all the way around the lions head. Cut ear shapes from yellow fun foam and glue them to the head (optional).

4. Use a black marker to draw in the eyes, nose and mouth.

5. Cut 1 1/2" pieces of orange yarn and glue them to the end of the tail.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.

Hippo Craft for kidsFoam Marshmallow Hippo Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: Foam marshmallows from Oriental Trading Company (You can buy 48 for $4.95, $3.95 if you buy 3 or more packages.) (Type in 57/2058 in the search box on the left-hand side of the page.), wooden dowel or yarn for the tail, fun foam, glue, magic markers, and paint.

What to do:

1. Glue two marshmallows together to form the body. Cut the corner off of one marshmallow to form the head and glue it to the body as shown in the diagram to the right.

2. Use the leg pattern (Large file or small file) to cut four legs from fun foam. Fold Side A and B in together so they are overlapping each other about 1/4". Glue Side A to side B using a hot melt glue gun. Glue the legs to the body as shown. Use a pointy stick or large needle to poke holes in the marshmallows for the legs and tail. Insert the dowels in the holes.

3. Cut the ears from fun foam and glue to the head. Paint the hippo. Use a black marker to draw in the eyes, nose, and mouth.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail. It is illegal to publish this material in any form without permission even if you include the copyright information.

African Animal Artwork from AllPosters.com

Girafes
Girafes Poster
Smith, Jonathan
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