Arctic Animal Crafts

Arctic Animal Crafts For Kids

How to Make Arctic Animals Including: Milk Jug Polar Bear, Polar Bear Dessert Dish,
Folded Paper Polar Bear Craft, Polar Bear from a Pop Bottle, Puffin Paper Plate Craft, Walrus Paper Plate Craft

Walrus Styrofoam Bowl and Plate with Toothpick Whiskers Craft for Kids

What you will need:

Styrofoam bowl

Two 8 3/4" Styrofoam plates

Brown and black Patio Paint

Wiggle Eyes

Toothpicks

Glue

How to Make the Walrus Craft:

1. Cut off the bottom 3" of the paper plate.

2. Print out the Patterns and cut them out. Use them as a template and place them on a plate. Place the tips of the flipper patterns on the edge of the paper plate and trace around the pattern then cut them out.

3. Trace the muzzle and tusk pattern onto the plate and cut them out.

4. Glue the bowl to the top of the cut paper plate and paint them. Also paint the muzzle and flippers. Use only a very small amount of glue. If you use to much, you won't be able to stick the toothpicks whiskers through the dried glue. You really don't need any glue because the whiskers will keep the tusks and muzzle in place. The glue is just to keep them in place while you work.

5. Glue the tusks and muzzle to the face. Then punch toothpicks into the muzzle to make the walrus' whiskers.

6. To finish glue on the flippers so that they bend outward. This will enable you to stand the walrus upright. Glue on googly eyes.

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Also see Recycled Water Bottle Walrus Craft

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Polar Bear Milk Jug Recycle Craft for Kids

What you will need:
Two milk Jugs
Two plastic Cups
Black and White Craft Foam
Pink and White Patio Paint or spray paint made for plastic
Sharpie Fine-Tip Permanent Marker

Low Temp Mini Glue Gun

Fabric for scarf

How to make milk jug polar bear:

1. Clean and dry the milk jugs. Fill the bottom of one milk jug with sand to give it some weight. Cut the handle off the other milk jug and glue it to the top of the weighted milk jug as shown in the picture.

2. Glue plastic cups to the body milk jug for legs.

3. Cut Arms and Ears from white craft foam and glue them to the body and head. Spray paint the whole thing with white spray paint. (Printing Problems?)

4. Paint the ears and cheeks pink. Draw the eyes, and mouth with a black marker. Cut a nose (included on pattern) from black craft foam and glue to the head. Draw paws on the bottom of the cups.

5. Cut a scarf 5' x 30" from the material. Cut 1/4' slits at each end to make the frill. Tie the scarf it to the bear's neck.

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Polar Bear Dessert Dish Craft for Kids

What you will need:

Two Styrofoam Dinner Plates

Styrofoam bowl

4 - 5 oz. Dixie Cups

1 - 9 oz. Styrofoam cup

White Patio Paint

Low Temp Mini Glue Gun

Sharpie Fine-Tip Permanent Marker

How to Make the Polar Bear Dessert Dish Craft:

1. Make the four legs first. Cut the top edge off thecups. Cut a line all the way down the side seam to the bottom of the cups. Roll the cups up so that they are smaller on the tops of the cups as shown in the picture. Cut off the parts of the cups that hang over. Glue the sides together with a low temp hot melt glue gun. Squeeze the top of the cup together and glue closed. If you don't have a glue gun, staple them together. Glue or staple the legs to the top of a paper plate. (Glue the front legs on as shown in the picture. Glue the back legs on the opposite way.) Paint the legs white. Use a black marker to draw on the footprints. Cut out a small tail and glue it to the plate.

2. Turn another dinner-sized paper plate upside down and glue or staple it on top of the plate with the feet and tail.

3. To make the head, cut two one-inch slits in the rim of the cup about 2 inches apart so that it fits onto the rim of the polar bear's body. Cut ears from another Styrofoam cup and glue them to the head.

4. To finish, cut a circle in the top plate a little smaller than the rim of your bowl. Place the bowl inside the plates. You can glue it down or leave it so it can be removed.

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Folded Paper Polar Bear Craft for Kids

Just print out onto card stock, cut out, and fold in half.

This little bear can be used in an Arctic scene or as a placeholder at the dinner table or wnter party.

This craft is available to members only.

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"Let it Snow!" Polar Bear Poster Craft for Kids

What you will need:

Color printer

Paper

Glitter Glue

Foam Self-Adhesive Foam Snowflake Shapes

How to make this poster:

1. Print out the Picture or use another picture, and glue it to cardboard. (This picture is available to members only.)

2. Glue foam snowflakes around the edge of the picture.

3. Place a dot of glitter glue on each tiny white snowflake in the picture.

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Bottle Polar Bear Craft for Kids

What you will need:

Plastic soda bottle

3-oz. paper Dixie Cup

White Craft Foam

White, Pink, and Black Patio Paint

Low Temp Mini Glue Gun

How to make this bottle polar bear craft:

1. Cut the rim off the 3-oz Dixie cup and the top 3" of the soda bottle so that the cup fits snuggly onto the bottle. Glue it to the top of your soda bottle as shown in the picture. Paint the cup and bottle white with acrylic paint. You will have to use at least two coats of paint. Let dry.

2. Roll up pieces of fun foam and glue closed to make the legs and arms. Cut the ends to fit on the bottle. Glue them onto the bottle with a hot melt glue. Cut the paw end rounded and glue closed. Draw on toes, eyes, and nose with a black Sharpie marker.

3. Cut ear shapes from white fun foam and glue to the head as shown. Paint the insides of the ears pink.

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Paper Plate Puffin Craft For Kids

What you will need: 1 9-inch paper dinner plate, 2 6-inch paper plates, orange card stock or cardboard, hot melt glue gun, and orange, black, white, and yellow paint.

How to make this paper plate craft:

1. Print out the patterns for the body, head and feet (Available to Members Only.)

2. Paint one 6-inch plate black and let it dry. Then fold it in half to make the wings.

3. Use the head pattern to fold the head. First fold a 6-inch plate in half. Fold both ends of the plate back and then forth at the fold lines. Push the folded center line in on each end of the plate to make pleats as shown in the diagram at the right. Glue the pleats closed. Use the pattern to paint the puffin's head.

4. To make the body fold the large paper plate in half and cut a 1/2" slit up one end of the folded side of the plate. Fold up the edges as shown in the pattern and the picture above. Glue the paper plate together in the belly area.

5. Fold the feet in half and then fold up both feet. Stick the folded edge of the feet into the bottom of the folded large paper plate and glue them to the paper plate. Glue the rest of the body together along the inside edge of the plate.

6. Glue the wing on just at the very top. Glue the head onto the body as shown and then glue the rest closed.

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Walrus Paper Plate Craft

What you will need: Two-10 1/4" paper plates, four-6 inch paper plates, two plastic spoons or straws, yarn, paint, scissors, hot melt glue and gun, black permanent marker.

How to make this paper plate walrus craft:

1. Glue two big plates together, top-to-top, for the body and two small plates together, top-to-top, for the head. Glue the head to the body.

2. To make the muzzle fold a small paper plate in half and then fold back the sides as shown in the diagram to the right. Glue the folded sides to the back of the plate. Push up the top, bottom part of the paper plate and glue it in place as shown in the diagram. Cut the scoop ends off two spoons and glue the spoons inside the muzzle for the tusks.

3. Glue the muzzle to the head.

4. Cut a small paper plate in half and glue the halves to the body to make fins as shown in the picture.

5. Paint the paper plates and them let dry. Add eyes and yarn to make the whiskers. Use a black marker to draw the nose.

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