Cat and Kitten Crafts for Kids
How to Make Cat and Kitten Crafts for Kids
"Pawsitively Pretty Kitty" and "Pawsitively Purrfect Kitty" Paw Print Frame
 What you will need:
Different colors of card stock (Heavy Paper), scissors, Elmer's No-wrinkle Rubber Cement, and magnets.
How to Make the Pawsitively Pretty Kitty Frame:
1. Print out the frame pattern onto Card stock and cut it out.
Pawsitively Pretty Kitty Pattern
Pawsitively Purrfect Kitty Pattern
Paw Print Pattern
2. Print out the Paw Print Pattern onto different colors of paper.
 3. Glue the paw prints onto the frame and then tape a picture of your kitty onto the back of the frame.
4. Glue small magnets to the back of the frame so you can hang the picture on your refrigerator.
5. If you don't want to use magnets, you can glue a string to the frame so you can hang the picture.
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Sock Cat and Mouse Craft for Kids
 What you will need:
Cat - Two 100% polyester adult socks (these socks are very stretchy), pink felt for the ears, pink craft foam for the nose, small eyes, low temp glue gun, polyester fiberfill, pink acrylic paint, white craft foam for the feet, sewing machine or thread and needle, and scissors.
How to Make Sock Cat and Mouse Craft:
1. Cut the toe off one sock about 4 1/2" from the end to make the head. Stuff the head with fiberfill. Close the head by gluing the middle of the cut end together. Don't worry about frayed ends. This type of sock does not fray and the glue will keep it from fraying if any. Pull up on the two sides that are not glued to form the ears. Then stick some glue inside on of the ear shapes and press the material together while pulling up on the material to form the ears. Wait until the glue dries before releasing. See the picture above. Then glue the other ear the same way.
2. To make the body lay another sock flat so that the heal of the sock is on top. Cut the toe off about 5" from the center of the heal. Cut a slit about 3" up the center of that cut end to make the front legs. Cut the cuff end of the sock off about 4" from the center of the heal and cut a slit about 2" to make the back legs. See the diagram below.
 3. Turn the sock inside out and sew the inside leg seams leaving the ends of the legs open. Turn the sock right-side out through one of the leg openings. The material is very stretchy and this is very easy to do.
4. Fill the legs and the body with poly-fil. Cut paw shapes from the craft foam and paint on the paw prints with pink acrylic paint. When the paint is dry glue the paws onto the ends of the legs as shown in the picture above.
5. Glue the head to the body as shown in the diagram using a low temp glue gun.
6. Cut the inside of the ears from pink felt and glue them to inside of the ears.
7. To make the eye sockets insert a threaded needle into the place where you want one eye and then bring it back out where you want the other. Pull the thread to make a slight indent and tie it. Glue the eyes to the indents.
8. You can also make an indent for the mouth by inserting a threaded needle where you want the mouth and pushing it through the head to the back of the head. Pull the thread tight to make an indent and then tie it off.
9. Cut a tail from the fold of a left over sock piece at little bigger than you want it. Sew the side of the tail that is not folded and then turn it inside out. The material is very stretchy and is easy to turn inside out even though the tail is very thin. Glue the tail to the body.
Mouse - Stretchy Sock, Pink Felt for the Nose an Ears, Pink Craft Foam for the Feet.
1. Cut off the toe of a sock making one side thinner than the other. The thinner side is the nose. Turn the piece inside out and sew the toe of the sock closed leaving one-half inch open at the nose. Turn it right side out through the hole. Stuff with fiber-fil and then use a glue gun to close the hole.
2. Cut a nose, ears, and tail from the pink felt and glue them to the body.
3. Cut tiny feet from the craft foam and glue them to the body also. To finish glue on tiny black eyes.
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Hanging Around Paper Plate Cat for Kids
 What you will need: Four dinner-size paper plates, card stock (heavy paper), pink paper or pink crayon or marker, and glue.
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How to Make Hanging Around Paper Plate Cat:
1. Print out the Patterns for the eyes, nose, tongue, and front legs and the Patterns for the Tail and Back Legs on to card stock and cut them out. (Printing Problems?)
2. Print out the Cat Head Pattern (Printing Problems?and use it as a template to cut the shape from two paper plates. Trace the pattern onto the top of one paper plate and the bottom of another. Glue the two paper plates together (top to top) to make the face. You should have a small opening for the mouth.
3. Cut the tongue and nose from pink paper or color them pink and glue them to the face. Draw in the whiskers. Cut out the eyes and glue them on the face or draw the eyes with a marker.
4. Glue two paper plates together (top to top) to make the body. Glue the head to the body as shown. Glue on the legs, arms, and tail.
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Three Little Kittens Preschool Craft and Matching Game
Three Little Kittens have lost their mittens. Can you help them find the matching mitten?
 What you will need: Two paper plates, card stock, glue, and scissors.
How to Make Three Little Kittens Preschool Craft and Matching Game:
1. Print out the Patterns for the Eyes, Nose, Arms, and Tongue (Printing Problems?) and cut them out. Color the nose and tongue pink.
2. Print out the Cat Face Pattern (Printing Problems?) and use it as a template to cut a paper plate to make the cats face. Use the pattern to cut just the ear shapes out of another paper plate for the back of the head. Glue the two paper plates together (top to top) to make the face.
3. Glue on the nose and eyes. Draw in the whiskers with a black marker. Color in the ears. Glue the arms on the back of the head as shown in the picture.
4. Cut a slit in the paper plate used for the back of the head 2 1/2" long and 1/4" wide. Slip the tongue down through the hole so that it sticks out of the mouth.
5. Print out the mitten patterns onto colorful paper. You can make more sets of matching mittens by using different colors for the same patterns.
Mitten Pattern 1
Mitten Pattern 2
Mitten Pattern 3 (Printing Problems?)
6. Read your children the poem about the three little kittens that lost their mittens. (You can find it on Enchanted Learning.) Then play a mitten matching game. Place all the mittens on the floor or table spread out in front of your children. Let them take turns finding matching mittens and gluing a set their kitten.
Extensions - You can also use this activity to reinforce other learning skills by using the blank mitten patterns: Mitten Pattern Blank (Printing Problems?)
1. Matching Numbers - Make pairs of mittens with matching numbers.
2. Matching Letters - Make pairs of mittens with matching letters or use the upper and lower case of each letter.
3. Match by Texture - This is a great activity for vision-impaired children - Cut mitten shapes from different types of material. Have your children match the mitten by texture.
4. Letter Sounds - Print out small pictures of different items and place a piece of tape on the back of each one. Using pictures from your child's worksheets works great. Tell your child that the kitty is very hungry but she only wants to eat things that start with the "a" sound. (Move the kitty's tongue back and forth.) Ask your child if he or she can find a picture of something that starts with that sound and place it on the kitty's tongue. If the child is correct, the kitty will eat it. (Pull up the tongue so it looks like the kitty is eating it. And pull it all the way out and remove the picture. Then place the tongue back in it's mouth. If the child picked a picture that does not match that letter sound, just move the tongue back and forth and tell your child that the kitty does not like that one because it doesn't start with that sound, and he should try again. (You can also play this game using ending sounds and long or short vowel sounds.)
5. Writing Numbers or Letters - Give your child a pad of small sticky notes. Tell him that the kitty is hungry for a certain letter or number. He should write the letter or number on the sticky note and feed it to the kitty. If he is correct, the kitty eats it. If not, he must try again.
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Tuna Can Cat Dish Craft for Kids
 What you will need: Empty tuna can, two-ply twine, decorative items, and hot melt glue gun.
How to Make Tuna Can Cat Dish Craft:
1. Clean and dry the tuna can.
2. Start by gluing the end of the twine to the bottom side of the can. Wind the twine around the can gluing as you go. If you don't have a glue gun you can use tacky glue.
3. To finish add decorative items such as sequins, buttons, and beads.
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Duct Tape Cat Mat
 What you will need: Different colors of Duct tape and scissors.
How to Make Duct Tape Cat Mat:
1. Cut twelve-inch pieces of Duct tape from different colors of tape.
2. Fold the pieces in half lengthwise so that the sticky side is on the inside.
3. Weave the pieces together and then cut the sides of the mat to make them even.
4. Secure the edges of the mat by placing pieces of tape around the edge and folding them over to the other side.
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Cat Milk Jug Recycle Craft for Kids
 What you will need: two one-gallon milk jugs and a half-gallon milk jug for the head, flat black spray paint (Try to find spray paint made for plastic, if you can't use a plastic primer first), pink acrylic paint, cat eyes, pink and black craft foam, four 2" foam balls.
How to Make Cat Milk Jug Recycle Craft:
1. Cut the top off the smaller milk jug just below the handle; cut ear shapes on the opposite side of the handle. Then cut off the very top part of the the jug where the cap is screwed on. Glue the large and small jugs together at the tops placing the small jug over the top of the larger jug as shown in the picture to the right.
2. Cut two corners from the second large jug to make the legs of the cat. Glue the legs to the front of the jug two inches from the bottom of the jug.
3. You can also make the muzzle stand out by cutting off a corner of the smaller jug. Glue it to the front of the face.
4. Cut the foam balls to form paw shapes and glue them to the bottom of the legs and to the sides to make the cats paws.
5. Cut a tail from black craft foam and glue it to the back of the cat.
6. Spray paint the entire cat with flat black spray paint.
7. Paint the ears and nose pink.
8. Cut a pink tongue from craft foam and glue it to the mouth.
9. To finish make a collar out of material and glue it the the neck of the cat.
Children may want to store small items in the head of the cat. You can also use it as a planter.
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I Love the USA Coloring Sheet for Kids
 What
you will need: computer
paper, crayons and other decorative items such as glitter and beads.
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How to Make I Love the USA Coloring Sheet: Print out the free
coloring page pattern You can just use crayons to color this
coloring page or add glitter and beads and other pretty items to make
it really stand out.
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3D Paper Cat Craft for Kids
  This is a very easy craft, just print out the patterns, color, fold and glue on the head. Your children will love playing with their new friend. This craft is available to members only. Go to 3D Cat Craft
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Mother Cat and Kitten 3D Paper Craft
  This craft is basically the same as the cat craft above. This craft is available to members only. Go to Cat Craft.
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No-Sew Sock Cat Craft for Children
 This little cat was made with two children's sock and rubber bands. For directions to this craft go to the Sock Crafts for Kids Page.
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Cat Place Mats
 What you will need:
1. Large Pieces of Fun Foam for the Mat - You can buy 24 pieces 11 1/2" x 17" of foam sheets for $7.95 from Oriental Trading Company. That's about 33 cents a piece. I have seen them at Michael's Craft Store for .99 cents each if you buy them separately. Type in 57/2103 in the search box at the top of the page to find this item.
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2. Foamie Animal Shapes - We bought the shapes shown in the picture from Michael's Craft Store although they are not shown on their web site. They do have a
Tub O' Foamies Sticky Shapes - Leaping Animals on the web site. Craft Supplies for Less has Foamie Cat and Dog Stickers for sale on their web site.
3. Foam letter Stickers or Permanent Markers - Oriental Trading Company has adhesive foam letters. Type in 57/2006 in the search box at the top of the page to find these letters.
How to Make Cat Place Mats:
1. Decide on your design and place all the items on the mat where you would like them to be before sticking them to the mat.
2. Peel off the back of the sticker and place the stickers on the mat. You can also use permanent markers to decorate the mat, but be careful to let the ink dry before touching it.
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