Looking for a lion craft for kids? This is a really easy arts and crafts project I did with my kid. He was asked to do a craft work by using recyclable materials for his preschool. His teacher gave us few themes and we chose the theme ‘jungle’ and decided to make this lion craft.
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Making this lion from empty drink carton was a fun activity for both of us. Kid enjoyed his time doing a craft activity with me. It was great for bonding. After making this lion craft, kid came up with different ideas to use empty drink cartons which is
Things needed:
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Empty drink box
Glue
Card stock
Used magazine papers
Scissor
How to make the Lion Art Craft
Clean the empty drink carton.
Apply glue on it. Cover it with a magazine paper.
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Allow to dry.
Then cover it with a yellow colour paper. Using scissors you can cut the paper to exact size of the empty drink carton.
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Then cut a circle using yellow colour paper. Cut another circle with red colour paper (it should be bigger than the yellow circle)
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Cut legs and tail.
Paste as necessary to create a lion.
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Draw eyes, mouth, nose and whiskers to complete the lion art craft project. This is a perfect craft to do with a preschooler and they can do most parts of this.
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Skills to improve: scissor skills, hand eye coordination, awareness of importance of recycle/reuse/repurpose.
It is easy to make this lion with repurposed materials.Lion art craft is ready!
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Other arts and crafts we did before:
Update:
Later we found that this lion craft has been chosen to display in the Community Art Gallery display board near the preschool.
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